New Trump lawsuit demands Georgia throw out election results
The lawsuit mirrors the dozens of other lawsuits his campaign and allies filed that have been thrown out.
Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on New Year’s Eve demanding that a federal judge decertify the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, alleging without any evidence that “illegal voting” occurred and therefore the results were invalid.
The suit, filed with the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in their official capacities, claims the existence of violations of election law that “have resulted in more than 11,779 ‘illegal’ votes to be counted in the State of Georgia which is sufficient to change the outcome of the election or place the outcome in doubt.”
President-elect Joe Biden won the state by exactly 11,779 votes.
The lawsuit is similar to dozens of other lawsuits the Trump campaign and Trump’s GOP allies have filed since the election. They have lost 60 of those lawsuits, with judges tossing many of them due to a lack of any proof.
Multiple federal fudges have chastised Trump’s lawyers and his GOP defenders for filing the lawsuits, accusing them of trying to subvert the will of the voters by getting judges to overturn a free and fair election.
“Voters, not lawyers, choose the president,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee, in a decision in November tossing out a Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to overturn election results in Pennsylvania. “Ballots, not briefs, decide elections.”
Ballots in Georgia have been counted three times, each time with the same conclusion: Biden defeated Trump in the state.
Nevertheless, Trump is still trying to overturn the state’s result, even though if Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes were removed from Biden’s column, Biden would still have 290, more than the 270 needed to win.
Trump is continuing to go to extraordinary lengths to overturn the will of the voters in Georgia.
He called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday to demand that Raffensperger “find” just enough votes to make Trump the winner in the state.
The phone call could lead to criminal charges against Trump, as experts say it’s a violation of both state and federal election law to engage in a conspiracy to commit election fraud.
Georgia has already certified its election results; the electors in the state cast their ballots on Dec. 14; and the election is over. What’s more, the so-called safe harbor deadline to resolve disputes about the election results in the courts passed on Dec. 8.
The last step in the process is for Congress to certify the results of the Electoral College vote, which it is scheduled to do on Wednesday. More than 140 Republican lawmakers plan to object to the certification, but their stunt will fail, as the Democratic-controlled House will not vote to overturn Biden’s win.
Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.
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