Federal judge tosses out Trump election lawsuit in Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Brann dismissed a lawsuit Saturday filed in Pennsylvania by President Donald Trump's campaign. In a 37-page opinion, Brann said the campaign was asking him to "disenfranchise almost seven million voters" and said he could not find a case in which a plaintiff "has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election." He said the court had been presented with "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations."
In his 37-page ruling, Brann said the Trump campaign asked him to “disenfranchise almost seven million voters” and said he could not find any case in which a plaintiff “has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election.”
With such a request, the judge said, one might expect compelling legal argument “and factual proof of rampant corruption.” Instead, Brann added, “this court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations.”
"In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state."
The lawsuit claimed that some counties allowed mail-in voters to cure problems with the ballots by casting a provisional ballots, but some counties did not, which violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.
But even if that were the basis for seeking some kind of order, Brann said, the remedy sought by the Trump campaign goes too far.
“Rather than requesting that their votes be counted, they seek to discredit scores of other votes, but only for one race," the judge wrote. "This is simply not how the Constitution works.”
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