Despite losing countless lawsuits alleging voter fraud during the 2020 elections, US President Donald Trump is making one last attempt to make a case for election fraud in front of the Supreme Court.
Despite providing no evidence and having his claims dismissed by judges and election officials across the United States, Trump has expressed confidence that his last-ditch lawsuit will be able to overturn the result of the election.
“All I ask for is people with wisdom and with courage, that’s all,” Trump said at a White House Hanukkah party on Wednesday night, as reported by Al Jazeera. “Because if certain very important people, if they have wisdom and if they have courage, we’re going to win this election in a landslide.”
VIDEO: Trump tells the crowd at the Hanukkah party that with the help of “certain very important people, if they have wisdom and if they have courage, we are going to win this election.” — remarks followed with loud chants of “four more years.” pic.twitter.com/FjCyFGOqPC
— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) December 10, 2020
This week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit with the US Supreme Court demanding the Electoral College votes from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin be invalidated. The suit asks that the four states not be able to cast their electoral votes when the Electoral College meets next week because, it argued, using unproven or disproven allegations, that those states’ pandemic-era election law changes violated federal law.
Trump filed a motion with the Supreme Court to be added to the suit and Republican attorneys general from 17 states have also joined the suit.
We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2020
Election law experts Rick Hasen and Justin Levitt, professors from the University of California’s Irvine and Loyola law schools, respectively, have dismissed Trump’s lawsuit, with Hasen calling it “bonkers” and “dangerous garbage”.
“Texas doesn’t have standing to raise these claims as it has no say over how other states choose electors,” Hasen said in a blog post. “There’s no reason to believe the voting conducted in any of the states was done unconstitutionally.”
“Both procedurally and substantively, [the lawsuit’s] a mess,” Levitt told Reuters. “There’s zero chance the court agrees to take the case.”
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