Trump pressed Justice Department to go directly to Supreme Court to overturn election results

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Jess Bravin
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FLASH: Trump pressed Justice Department to go directly to Supreme Court to overturn election results
Trump Pressed to Change Justice Department Leadership to Boost His Voter Fraud Claims
Trump Pressed to Change Justice Department Leadership to Boost His Voter Fraud Claims
The former president’s efforts were dropped after top DOJ officials agreed to resign en masse in protest if he succeeded, people familiar said.
wsj.com
5:36 PM · Jan 23, 2021

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-pressed-to-change-justice-department-leadership-to-boost-his-voter-fraud-claims-11611434369

WASHINGTON—In his last weeks in office, former President Donald Trump considered moving to replace the acting attorney general with another official ready to pursue unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and he pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate President Biden’s victory, people familiar with the matter said.

Those efforts failed due to pushback from his own appointees in the Justice Department, who refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit in the Supreme Court. Later, other senior department officials threatened to resign en masse should Mr. Trump fire then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Senior department officials, including Mr. Rosen, former Attorney General William Barr and former acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall refused to file the Supreme Court case, concluding that there was no basis to challenge the election outcome and that the federal government had no legal interest in whether Mr. Trump or Mr. Biden won the presidency, some of these people said. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy, Patrick Philbin, also opposed Mr. Trump’s idea, which was promoted by his outside attorneys, these people said.

“He wanted us, the United States, to sue one or more of the states directly in the Supreme Court,” a former administration official said. “The pressure got really intense” after a lawsuit Texas filed in the Supreme Court against four states Mr. Biden won was dismissed on Dec. 11, the official said. An outside lawyer working for Mr. Trump drafted a brief the then-president wanted the Justice Department to file, people familiar with the matter said, but officials refused.

*snip*

[BGBD]

1. And outside attorney

place your bets.

Guilianni
Powell
Woods

[Arne]

2. Taitz.

She is the greatest

[malaise]

3. So when will Barr tell America the true story of his resignation?

This is what he earned for lying for Trump about the Mueller Report

[BGBD]

4. You'll have to wait for the book.

If anything, these guys know how to cash in.

[malaise]

5. For real

LOL

[keithbvadu2]

6. 'I put several of you in office. You owe me.'