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Hillard:
https://m.theepochtimes.com/judge-republicans-will-likely-win-pennsylvania-election-lawsuit_3596477.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Appeals court rejects Trump challenge of Pennsylvania race


PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign’s latest effort to challenge the state’s election results.

Trump’s lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court despite the judges’ assessment that the “campaign’s claims have no merit.”

“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,” 3rd Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, a Trump appointee, wrote for the three-judge panel, all appointed by Republican presidents.
The case had been argued last week in a lower court by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who insisted during five hours of oral arguments that the 2020 presidential election had been marred by widespread fraud in Pennsylvania. However, Giuliani failed to offer any tangible proof of that in court.

U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann, another Republican, had said the campaign’s error-filled complaint, “like Frankenstein’s Monster, has been haphazardly stitched together” and denied Giuliani the right to amend it for a second time.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called any revisions “futile.” Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith and Judge Michael Chagares were on the panel with Bibas, a former University of Pennsylvania law professor. Trump’s sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, sat on the court for 20 years, retiring in 2019.

“Voters, not lawyers, choose the president. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections,” Bibas said in the opinion, which also denied the campaign’s request to stop the state from certifying its results, a demand he called “breathtaking.”

In fact, Pennsylvania officials had announced Tuesday that they had certified their vote count for President-elect Joe Biden, who defeated Trump by more than 80,000 votes in the state. Nationally, Biden and running mate Kamala Harris garnered nearly 80 million votes, a record in U.S. presidential elections.

Trump has said he hopes the Supreme Court will intervene in the race as it did in 2000, when its decision to stop the recount in Florida gave the election to Republican George W. Bush. On Nov. 5, as the vote count continued, Trump posted a tweet saying the “U.S. Supreme Court should decide!”
Ever since, Trump and his surrogates have attacked the election as flawed and filed a flurry of lawsuits to try to block the results in six battleground states. But they’ve found little sympathy from judges, nearly all of whom dismissed their complaints about the security of mail-in ballots, which millions of people used to vote from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump perhaps hopes a Supreme Court he helped steer toward a conservative 6-3 majority would be more open to his pleas, especially since the high court upheld Pennsylvania’s decision to accept mail-in ballots through Nov. 6 by only a 4-4 vote last month. Since then, Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett has joined the court.

“The activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud,” Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis tweeted after Friday’s ruling. “On to SCOTUS!”

In the case at hand, the Trump campaign asked to disenfranchise the state’s 6.8 million voters or at least “cherry-pick” the 1.5 million who voted by mail in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other Democratic-leaning areas, the appeals court said.

“One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption,” Brann, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, wrote in his scathing ruling on Nov. 21. “That has not happened.”

A separate Republican challenge that reached the Pennsylvania Supreme Court this week seeks to stop the state from further certifying any races on the ballot. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration is fighting that effort, saying it would prevent the state’s legislature and congressional delegation from being seated in the coming weeks.

On Thursday, Trump said the Nov. 3 election was still far from over. Yet he said for the first time he would leave the White House on Jan. 20 if the Electoral College formalizes Biden’s win.

“Certainly I will. But you know that,” Trump said at the White House, taking questions from reporters for the first time since Election Day.

On Twitter Friday, however, he continued to baselessly attack Detroit, Atlanta and other Democratic cities with large Black populations as the source of “massive voter fraud.” And he claimed, without evidence, that a Pennsylvania poll watcher had uncovered computer memory drives that “gave Biden 50,000 votes” apiece.

All 50 states must certify their results before the Electoral College meets on Dec. 14, and any challenge to the results must be resolved by Dec. 8. Biden won both the Electoral College and popular vote by wide margins.


https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-pennsylvania-elections-philadelphia-d9c96c4593ec278f3b1d4bc564068df6

Juliusmalema:
Again Mefor blast Nnamdi Kanu, Calls IPOB an Illegal Organization



In his words

"Today, I assert my rights and responsibilities against an obvious broad day display of bundle of monumental illegality brought about by reckless and mindless manoeuvres not seen in a long while in modern history"

Let's focus on the message not the messenger. Now they claim he is looking for cheap publicity.

if na Nigeria....

Some lazy student said next year... They are not ready to go back to school...

Upton:
Some people are not smart. He was responding to a question about what he would say to her if he has the chance to. He didn't say he wants to say anything to her now.

I tired ooo...They are still pained....Imagine if he refused to comment they will say he is proud.

E be like say dem wan to start another story again oo
All I really know is that they dont really care about us.

EXLOVER:
If NCDC fit blow this year.

If Omah Lay fit blow this year

If unknown Laycon fit blow this year

If Onions fit blow this year.


Tell me why me nor go blow this year.



2020 you will end in joy.

I was chatting with someone and he said 2021 go better...I said Amen but 2020 never end for me and it will end well In Sha Allah.

SamJed:
you should have uploaded any proof that you had. My employer pays us by hand but we normally have a book where we sign that we have been paid. That was what was uploaded as her own proof. Today we have all received our alerts

Thamks for the info...

People can just mess up...

eghuan1:
Yes. I registered with my friends company with 10 staff members. Every member of staff were paid apart from my friend who owns the company

I stopped reg at a point because the travel industry was shut down for months and they expect me to provide proof of payment for at least 3 months. I do not think they reason at all. Moreover sometimes I pay with cash even before the Coronavirus. If govt help is not coming to hetbloan to expand and keep business going in this country is a hog war.

Good...replace him with another corrupt man...Next...

K

Joeboy12:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN4psDJY3TY

If this is the plan they will fail.

Oo

Lies abeg...not only 24hrs...

Jeromejnr:
Stop being ridiculous.

but calling Buhari and Lai Mohammed is not ridiculous....clown...

LegendHero:
Umahi - 1
Wike - 1

By the way, when is Umahi visiting Asiwaju in Bourdillon?

Tinubu must always give you people problem. Abeg what is tinubus business with this news...we know where you people come from.

The television party.

Greetings,
Kindly contact if you have GPS anthena for sale.

pocohantas:
You are overthinking things.

How can you keep saying you haven’t eaten for 3days without any explanation? Haba! Don’t you know that is Naija babes intro to ask for urgent 2k?

The guy is not psychic to know you were fasting. Whenever I tell a man I haven’t eaten, I always make sure I add the reason (e.g) Busy day, I am trying to watch my intake/weight...etc.

While it wasn’t so nice of him to disappear, we should remember that building relationships is hard in Nigeria because we suspect ourselves too much. Imagine if he kept telling you he is lonely.

It is okay if you want to block him, I just want you to know you are not entirely blameless. It takes time and trust to unlock certain aspects of a friendship...

You get sense...I was waiting for someone sensible enough to comment. Nowadays everyone is suspecting each other based on trust issues.

So....

Nice one...we still dey consult babalawo...

Obama is black...

For the dull ones to be rulling the brilliant ones...It simply shows we are duller than them. I stand to be corrected you are very wrong and you are part of the dull ones. With one slice of bread the so called brilliant ones will ignore merits and vote for a very corrupt...heartless...mean and certified thieves to govern us because of obvious hate...ethnic and religious sentiment.

openuniversity5:
I'm over 35years now and my Dad has never told me this motivational word to me. Nawa o this life no really balance

u fit tell ur kids too...They don do der best.

NaijaMutant:
Buhari when

Trump when...Even jonathan didnt when there was protest.

MossadAgent:
Even though soldeirs are everywhere , their orders are simple - DO NOT INTERFERE unless they target Hausa Fulani .

The Soldeirs are there to ensure these fools and their armed robber collegues do not in any way attack northerners .


If one aboki is touched, una go see another Oyigbo.

Penal Brigades are useless as criminals can never be made soldeirs unless when deployed as bait or used in suicide mission as disposable soldeirs.

How can the south tackle the north with criminals like these ?

Even if you don't use them as part of the militia which I strongly urge not to, these criminals will use the chaos and fog of war to impersonate the real movement from where they will exploit and steal from the people thereby giving the insurrection a bad rep to the people they intend to emancipate and also will not hessitate to act as informants to the Nigerian Army. This is why when that idiot and mad man , Nnamdi Kanu was making broadcast to prisoners telling them his IPOB will soon do a jail break but that the prisoners must join IPOB , I just knew this man was totally insane and stupid. And true to his word, IPOB did attempt a jail break at Enugu prison during the EndSars protest.

The south is totally fcked

imagine talk...Must everything be about hausa-fulani. What is your governor doing. Is he not the CSO of the state. Tribal and religious bigot.

I hope its not the work of competitors or progress haters.

MAD TRUMP...

That is what it is...