During an interview on Newsmax TV former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell made the claim that there was a “chaotic mess” in the way the election was handled in Nevada and Pennsylvania and that lots of ballots got thrown out.
Grenell also made the claim that the rules were changed at the last minute which in part led to the mess. The Trump campaign is arguing that the last minute changes were illegal and tantamount to moving the goalposts at the last minute.
Watch via Newsmax TV:
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We agree with Grenell that the last minute changes were unfair and illegal. Whether a court is willing to throw out the “results” of the election remains in doubt.
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It is all going to turn on the Supreme Court and we may know the answer sooner rather than later, as Ryan Ledendecker reports:
Lawyers for President Donald Trump found out on Friday that a federal appeals court struck down a lawsuit filed previously that challenged a number of voting procedures in the state.
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While that may sound like bad news on the surface, there is most definitely a silver lining, as it now means that Trump’s legal team is able to take the matter all the way up to the top — to the United States Supreme Court.
According to Fox News, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the lawsuit was written decisively, saying that “the campaign’s claims have no merit.” The ruling upheld a previous ruling from Republican-appointed U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann, who wrote a scathing response at the time, as the lawsuit had requested hundreds of thousands of votes from Pennsylvania citizens be invalidated.
In Brann’s ruling from last week, he wrote that the lawsuit was “like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together,” citing a number of errors in the lawsuit.
The federal appeals court ruling on Friday, issued by Judge Stephanos Bibas, echoed Brann’s take on the suit from last week.
“Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,” Bibas wrote.
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However, and that’s a big however… Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis didn’t appear to be shaken up by the Friday ruling, even though it marked yet another defeat in a long line of defeats for Trump’s legal teams. That’s because now, the Trump legal team will be able to take the matter to the Supreme Court, which, thanks to the president, has a solid conservative majority.
Ellis indicated as much in a Friday tweet, in which she not only slammed the Pennsylvania court system but seemed more than happy to be able to elevate the matter to the court of all courts.
“[email protected] and me on Third Circuit’s opinion: The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud. We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to present proof and the facts to the PA state legislature. On to SCOTUS!” Ellis tweeted.
.@RudyGiuliani and me on Third Circuit’s opinion:
The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud.
We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to present proof and the facts to the PA state legislature.
On to SCOTUS!
