President Donald Trump and his allies have been on a hot streak trying to overturn the will of more than 81 million voters, losing 29 …
President Donald Trump and his allies have been on a hot streak trying to overturn the will of more than 81 million voters, losing 29 of the 38 election court cases they’ve brought so far — and winning zero. The judges have struck down the lawsuits for various reasons. Voters, not judges, decide elections, they say, and more voters chose President-elect Joe Biden than Trump. They point out that the Constitution does not grant anyone the power to ignore voters and declare voters on their own, that Trump’s campaign lawyers incorrectly interpret state election laws, that the lawsuits are based on falsehoods and conspiracy theories, and that the cases bring forth hearsay rather than actual evidence of misconduct. They also keep asking the lawyers representing Trump and other Republicans the same question: What took so long? In a ruling in a federal court in Arizona on Wednesday, for example, Judge Diane Humetewa pointed out that the plaintiffs seeking to overturn the state’s election results included evidence in their lawsuits showing they knew about the supposed misconduct for “weeks, months, and even years” before the election. “Plaintiffs also include documents showing that the facts underlying their allegations of ballot counting and verification misconduct occurred weeks before Election Day,” she wrote. Trump and his allies are fighting voting rules that have been on the books for months — and sometimes years It’s been more than a month since voting ended. Yet almost all the lawsuits from Trump and his allies argue that election rules in particular states are unconstitutional and that the results should therefore be overturned. In Wisconsin, the Trump campaign argued that ballots cast by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic (including their top lawyer’s ballot) shouldn’t have been legal. In Pennsylvania, the campaign argued that most of the state’s votes should be thrown out because some voters were allowed to fix clerical issues on their ballots.
