Lawsuits to overturn Trump's defeat are finally over — 4 months after he lost

“Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so,” Trump-appointed 3rd Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote in a November decision that threw out a Trump campaign effort to overturn his loss in Pennsylvania.

Despite the string of losses, Trump is still lying that the election was stolen from him.

In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday, Trump once again told the lie that he won the election. He also urged Republicans to push for voter suppression policies to prevent the kind of loss Trump suffered in November 2020.

Republicans have heard Trump’s demand for voter suppression laws loud and clear, with GOP legislators introducing hundreds of voter suppression bills across the country.

And Republican-controlled legislatures have already begun to pass those pieces of legislation.

For example, Iowa passed a bill last week that shaves off an hour of poll opening time, as well as cut back on the number of early voting days. And on Monday, the Georgia state House passed a voter suppression bill that requires ID to vote by mail and ends Sunday early voting days — a move that targets Black voters who organize events to vote after church.

Voting rights experts say the effort to make it harder to vote is the biggest attack on voting rights since Jim Crow, when Black Americans were prevented from voting using racist poll taxes and redistricting was used to dilute Black voters’ voices, among other tactics.

Democrats are looking to combat the attack on voting rights by passing H.R. 1, a pro-democracy bill that would make it easier to register to vote, as well as to cast absentee ballots.

H.R. 1 is slated to pass the House this week, though it faces unlikely odds in the Senate, where Republicans are likely to utilize the filibuster to prevent its passage.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.