All President Trump really wants for Christmas is a delivery from the Supreme Court.
Mr. Trump’s legal team has asked the justices for an order …
All President Trump really wants for Christmas is a delivery from the Supreme Court. Mr. Trump’s legal team has asked the justices for an order by Christmas Eve to proceed with expedited consideration of the campaign’s long-shot challenge to the election results in Pennsylvania. Most legal analysts say the chances of a favorable decision from the high court are very remote. The Supreme Court already has rejected without comment two post-election challenges to the results in Pennsylvania. The president also met at the White House on Monday with a group of conservative House lawmakers who plan to reject Mr. Biden’s electoral votes from contested states when Congress meets Jan.6. The president and his top lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, continued to push publicly on Monday their claims for investigations of voting machines and alleged election fraud in swing states won by President-elect Joseph R. Biden. “Big news coming out of Pennsylvania,” Mr. Trump tweeted. “Very big illegal ballot drop that cannot be accounted for. Rigged Election!” Mr. Giuliani said he wants to “find out, once and for all, did Biden cheat to become president like he cheated to get through law school?” (Mr. Biden long ago admitted he plagiarized a paper in law school in 1965. The faculty allowed him to repeat the course, after initially flunking him.) Mr. Giuliani said Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin should agree “to let us audit the Dominion [voting] machines.” “What are they afraid of, if they didn’t cheat?” he said. But Attorney General William P. Barr again knocked down the president’s claims of widespread election fraud Monday, saying there was “no basis” for a federal seizure of voting machines or appointing a special counsel to investigate purported election fraud. “If I thought a special counsel at this stage was the right tool and was appropriate, I would name one. But I haven’t and I’m not going to,” Mr. Barr said at a news conference two days before he is leaving office. Dominion Voting Systems has denied any problems with its machines and has requested a retraction from pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, who claims Dominion machines “flipped” votes for Mr. Trump to Mr. Biden. She was seen at the White House on Monday.
