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A court in Philadelphia rejects Trump's umpteenth appeal to prevent Biden from being president

2020-11-29T09:13:41.443Z


The blow is the latest judicial setback for the Republican in his attempt to reverse the election resultDonald Trump boards the 'Marine One' to return to the White House after playing golf in Sterling this Thursday.Alex Brandon / AP Justice has knocked down Donald Trump's main legal workhorse to prevent his rival, Democrat Joe Biden, from being confirmed as president of the United States. A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has rejected an appeal by the Republican's lawyers on Friday to prevent


Donald Trump boards the 'Marine One' to return to the White House after playing golf in Sterling this Thursday.Alex Brandon / AP

Justice has knocked down Donald Trump's main legal workhorse to prevent his rival, Democrat Joe Biden, from being confirmed as president of the United States.

A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has rejected an appeal by the Republican's lawyers on Friday to prevent the president-elect from being recognized as the winner of the elections on November 3 in the disputed State of Pennsylvania, which grants 20 electoral votes.

The blow from Philadelphia adds to a long list of failed attempts by the Republican to reverse the vote in states where the difference in votes between the two candidates has been smaller, such as Michigan, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona and Wisconsin.

Trump's lawyers have reacted immediately to, via Twitter, announce that they plan to appeal the ruling before the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority.

“Free and fair elections are the blood that runs through the veins of our democracy.

The fraud allegations are serious.

But calling an election fraudulent does not make it one.

The charges require specific accusations and then evidence, and in this case we have neither of the two things, ”reasoned the sentence Stephanos Bibas, a judge nominated by Trump.

Shortly after the ruling was known, the president uploaded a video to his Twitter account about an alleged electoral fraud in Nevada.

The Trump campaign filed the lawsuit shortly after the election, alleging that the mail-in vote counting had presented irregularities, and requesting the district judge to suspend the count.

The judge, Mathew Brann, considered a true Republican, rejected the lawsuit on November 21, considering that it was based "on twisted legal arguments and speculative accusations."

Brann even described the argument of Trump's lawyers as a "Frankenstein's monster."

The blow in Philadelphia practically closes the judicial process to challenge the results of an election that Trump lost by more than six million ballots in the popular vote.

But the president has not had to accept only setbacks of justice;

Republican legislators in the states where he has fought the most have also shown little or no willingness to cooperate in his irregular attempt to retain power.

Neither in Arizona, nor in Georgia, nor in Pennsylvania itself, where the highest state legislators have recalled that their role, according to the law, is not to decide who gets the electoral votes of the State, but that “it is the popular vote that he chooses them ”.

Last weekend, Trump invited Republican legislators from Michigan to the White House to attract them to his cause, but after the meeting the two said that they had no intention of subverting the process established by the electoral authorities.

In Philadelphia, Biden beat Trump by just over 80,000 votes.

This Thursday, in a statement to the press in which without assuming his defeat he left the exit door of the Oval Office ajar, the Republican has assured that Biden will only be able to install himself in the White House if it is shown that the votes he obtained in the elections "They were not fraudulent", a repeated complaint that, as the courts are showing, is completely devoid of judicial support.

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