Trump lawyers withdraw as US election officials dismiss fraud claims...

Old_Joe

• The Guardian is reporting that a Trump law firm has withdrawn from the Pennsylvania case challenging the election.

The abrupt withdrawal overnight is a blow to the president’s efforts to overturn the result of the vote in court. A major law firm withdrew overnight from a Trump campaign case in Pennsylvania seeking to have mail-in ballots thrown out, in the latest blow to the president’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election result in court.

The Ohio-based Porter Wright Morris & Arthur firm, which brought a suit on Monday alleging that the use of mail-in ballots had created “an illegal two-tiered voting system” in the state, abruptly withdrew from that case in a memo to the court.

“Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a mutual agreement that plaintiffs will be best served if Porter Wright withdraws,” the memo said. The lead lawyer in the case, the Pittsburgh-based Ronald L Hicks Jr, did not immediately reply to a request for comment. The news was first reported by the New York Times.

Unlike most lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign, which targeted small pools of votes whose exclusion would not change the election result, the Porter Wright suit in Pennsylvania challenged nearly 2.65m votes that were cast by mail, the majority by Democrats.

• Lawyers for the Trump campaign withdraw a lawsuit in Arizona.

Separately, lawyers for the Trump campaign withdrew a lawsuit in Arizona, conceding that the case would not move enough votes to change the election result in the state. “Since the close of yesterday’s hearing, the tabulation of votes statewide has rendered unnecessary a judicial ruling as to the presidential electors,” Trump lawyer Kory Langhofer told an Arizona state court, in news first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

The above reports have been edited for brevity.

Mark

This case aside, how sleazy and desperate do you have to be to even want to work for this person especially given his history of not paying his bills to say nothing about the ridiculousness of these lawsuits. Crazy people everywhere.

Old_Joe

Well, Dewey, Cheatham and Howe out of Boston never turn down clients, no mater how sleazy...

Old_Joe

The New York Times is reporting that:

On Friday, 16 federal prosecutors who had been assigned to monitor the election also directly debunked claims of widespread fraud, saying in a letter to Attorney General William P. Barr that there was no evidence of substantial irregularities.

[Also on] Friday, the state court judge in Michigan, Timothy M. Kenny, dealt Mr. Trump another blow by denying an emergency motion filed by two Republican poll workers who had asked him to halt the certification of the vote in Wayne County — home to Detroit — pending an audit of the count. States have to certify the results of the election — confirming that the vote tabulation was accurate — in order to apportion their Electoral College votes.

The ruling by Judge Kenny meant that the formal completion of the vote in Wayne County — and the broader vote in Michigan — could continue on pace.

“It would be an unprecedented exercise of judicial activism for this court to stop the certification process,” Judge Kenny added.

Anna

But hey, don't ruin the fun. We can still put on our six shooters, pickup truck flag our way to the party in DC, and complain about all the things that just aint (maybe even the war on Christmas). Don't be such a pooper.