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struggle4progress

(118,359 posts)
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 07:03 AM Nov 2020

Only trying to disenfranchise 1.5 million, not 6 Million

COLIN KALMBACHER
Nov 23rd, 2020, 6:34 pm

... Trump’s campaign filed a brief .. Monday afternoon .. blaming their former attorney for various self-inflicted mishaps ...

“The court also misconstrued the remedy sought, which may have affected its view of amendment,” the filing says. “The campaign is not seeking to disenfranchise 6.8 million Pennsylvanian voters. Instead, it only seeks to set aside the defective ballots among the 1.5 million cast in the defendant counties. The campaign seeks to examine a sample of the mail ballots to determine the defective percentage of ballots among the 1.5 million, which should then be deducted from Biden’s vote total” ...

... their proposed solution for Judge Brann’s allegedly improper denial is for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to issue a restraining order barring that certification – a request the district court was never exposed to in the first place ...

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/trump-campaigns-actual-argument-in-court-were-only-trying-to-disenfranchise-1-5-million-voters-not-6-million-pennsylvanians/

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Only trying to disenfranchise 1.5 million, not 6 Million (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2020 OP
"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" struggle4progress Nov 2020 #1
Can we have "a do over" because we hired a bad lawyer? Botany Nov 2020 #2
But, but.... Sherman A1 Nov 2020 #3
The obvious nature of this is striking . .. Iliyah Nov 2020 #4
Given their propensity for Hollywood lawyer movies... Moostache Nov 2020 #5

Botany

(70,592 posts)
2. Can we have "a do over" because we hired a bad lawyer?
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 07:18 AM
Nov 2020


BTW those ballots have already been examined 2 or 3 times and the Supreme Court would not hear the
case of an appeal for Judge Brann's ruling. It is over Donny.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
5. Given their propensity for Hollywood lawyer movies...
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 07:39 AM
Nov 2020

BREAKING: Footage of Trump lawyers discussing strategy for appeals...

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