By Jack Phillips The Supreme Court of Georgia declined to hear an election challenge filed by President Donald Trump’s team before the Dec. 14 Electoral College vote. The court said that it “lacks the jurisdiction to consider the petition and rejects it,” Fox News reported. The appeal from Trump’s team asked the Georgia Supreme Court to consider the merits of the case […]
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Powell Asks Supreme Court to Immediately Order States Decertify Election Results
By Janita Kan Attorney Sidney Powell is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately intervene in her lawsuits challenging the integrity and outcome of the 2020 elections in four states. In an announcement on Friday, Powell said she had filed emergency requests to the nation’s top court, asking the justices to order officials in Georgia, Michigan, and Arizona to immediately de-certify their 2020 […]
Trump Approves Filing Retooled Texas-Style Election Challenges: Giuliani
By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump’s legal team is planning on filing retooled lawsuits, his lawyer said Saturday. “We move immediately, seamlessly, to plan B, which is to bring lawsuits now in each one of the states. We had them ready. They’re just a version of the one that was brought in the Supreme Court. […]
Wisconsin Election Official: No Evidence of Fraud Related to Dominion Machines
By Zachary Stieber An election official in Wisconsin testified Friday that there’s no evidence of fraud related to Dominion Voting Systems machines. “In Wisconsin, there were no dumps of ballots during the night none. There is no evidence of any fraud related to Dominion voting machines in Wisconsin, none. The counting in Wisconsin did not stop and restart. Election […]
Texas GOP Chair Floats Forming Union of ‘Law-Abiding’ States After SCOTUS Election Ruling
By Ivan Pentchoukov Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West on Friday mused whether a group of “law-abiding states” should form a union after the Supreme Court rejected an election challenge filed by Texas earlier this week. “This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable. This decision will have far-reaching ramifications for […]
YouTube Blocks Trump Campaign’s 2 New Election Fraud Ads
By Tom Ozimek YouTube has removed two new ads from the Trump campaign, which allege widespread corruption in the 2020 election and call on voters to contact state legislators “to demand a free and fair election.” In a Dec. 11 press release, the Trump campaign announced that it had released two new ads, which besides being posted […]
Texas Tells SCOTUS That Defendant States Didn’t Address ‘Grave’ Election Issues
By Zachary Stieber The state of Texas argued in a filing to the Supreme Court on Friday that the four states it is suing didn’t address “grave issues,” instead “choosing to hide behind other court venues and decisions.” Texas sued Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin in the nation’s top court this week, alleging that the states unconstitutionally changed election laws, treated voters unequally, […]
Georgia Election Official: Over 20,000 Voted but Skipped Presidential Pick
By Mimi Nguyen Ly A Georgia election official said on Thursday that more than 20,000 people in the state who voted in the general election didn’t participate in the presidential race. Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting implementation systems manager, said at a press conference on Thursday that “over 20,000 people just skipped the presidential race. They just didn’t vote. They […]
Pennsylvania House Leaders File Brief to Support Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania
By Jack Phillips Pennsylvania’s House speaker and majority leader on Thursday filed an amici curiae brief with the Supreme Court against the state of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas’s lawsuit against the commonwealth and three other states. A brief (pdf) filed by Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, both Republicans, requests that the Supreme Court “carefully consider the procedural […]
6 States Ask Supreme Court to Join Texas Election Lawsuit
By Ivan Pentchoukov The states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah on Dec. 10 asked the Supreme Court to let them intervene in an election lawsuit filed earlier in the week by the state of Texas. In a brief motion to intervene filed on Thursday, the six states outlined the reasons they […]
Rudy Giuliani: Georgia House Needs ‘Courage to React’ to Election Fraud
By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump’s legal team again lobbied the GOP-controlled Georgia House of Representatives to take further action in light of allegations of election fraud on Thursday. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who appeared via live stream days after he was diagnosed with the CCP virus, implored the lawmakers to take responsibility. “Don’t you feel any responsibility […]
Case for President Trump Invoking Insurrection Act to Restore Election Integrity
By Stephen B. Meister Commentary During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the Tenth Congress enacted the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was then signed by Jefferson into law, to foil the plot of Revolutionary War hero Aaron Burr—following the destruction of his political career after he shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—to raise […]