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Blow for President Donald Trump as Nevada state court rejects lawsuit with prejudice
President Donald Trump has suffered another devastating loss, with a state court in Nevada rejecting an election lawsuit without prejudice.
The US President and his allies have now lost at least 30 post-election lawsuits. By some counts the number is as high as 41-1 losses.
In the latest blow for Mr Trump, a Nevada state court on Friday (local time) rejected the Trump campaign lawsuit seeking to block the state’s election results.
President-election Joe Biden won the state’s six electoral college votes by 703,486 to 669,890 votes.
Judge James Russell was scathing of the unprecedented request to either block certification of the state’s election results or award the electoral college votes to Mr Trump.
He stated there had been no evidence presented to support the campaign’s claims of voter fraud
“Contestants did not prove under any standard of proof that any illegal votes were cast and counted, or legal votes were not counted at all, for any other improper or illegal reason, nor in an amount equal to or greater than 33,596, or otherwise in an amount sufficient to raise reasonable doubt as to the outcome of the election,” Judge Russell wrote.
“Reasonable doubt is one based on reason, not mere possibility.”
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The Trump campaign and Trump allies have filed a flurry of lawsuits in battleground states that he lost, seeking to overturn the results. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
He said much of the evidence was based on hearsay and served little or no evidentiary value.
The phrase “did not prove under any standard of proof” was repeated 25 times in Judge Russell’s ruling.
The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning the judgement is final and not subject to further action.
Also today, the Michigan Court of Appeals rejected an appeal from the Trump campaign that attempted to stop ballot counting, calling the effort moot.
The court stated that lawyers had not followed proper procedure when filing the suit.
As Mr Trump’s legal losses continue to mount, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers dealt another blow to the President’s hopes in the Grand Canyon State.
Mr Trump’s legal team — Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis — have been making their case for Mr Biden’s win in Arizona to be overturned. They held an unofficial public gathering on Tuesday and met with Republican leaders in closed-door meeting.
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani listens to Detroit poll worker Jessi Jacobs during an appearance before the Michigan House Oversight Committee. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
Mr Bowers said the Arizona Legislature was unable to do what was being asked — to overturn the certified results.
“Under current Arizona law, the presidential electors who were elected on November 3 must, after the canvass is completed, vote for the winners of the popular vote,” he said in a statement.
“I voted for President Trump and worked hard to re-elect him. But I cannot and will not entertain a suggestion that we violate current law to change the outcome of a certified election.”
Mr Biden’s victories in Arizona and Wisconsin were certified on Monday.
The last Democrat to carry Arizona was Bill Clinton in 1996, marking a significant shift of the US electoral map this year.
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US President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a cabinet announcement event in Wilmington, Delaware. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
Mr Biden beat Mr Trump by just over 10,400 ballots in Arizona, where turnout was high, and shifting demographics saw a growing population of young Hispanic voters.
Meanwhile, allies of Mr Trump sought an emergency order from the US Supreme Court on Thursday to block the certification of election results in Pennsylvania, a key state won by Mr Biden.
Mr Trump appointed three conservatives to the nine-member US Supreme Court during his presidency and said right after the November election he was prepared to go all the way to that tribunal to defend what he called his re-election victory.
The move follows the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court’s rejection of a lawsuit challenging expanded mail-in voting in the key northeastern state.
The President is hoping that Pennsylvania’s GOP-controlled legislature will overturn the state’s election results.
Mr Trump is still refusing to concede defeat in the November 3 election, alleging without providing evidence that there was widespread fraud in both voting and vote counting, and that the election was stolen from him.
On Tuesday Attorney-General Bill Barr, a close ally of the president, broke with Mr Trump and said there was no evidence of significant fraud to invalidate Mr Biden’s win.
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You sound like another lefty Biden supporter ,you must be looking forward to rising unemployment,higher energy prices,continual rising crime rates,Mose wars in the Middle East (under Trump 4-5 moslem Arab states have normalised relations with Israel) .People who dislike Trump never see the positives ,only looking for negatives
yeh, don't worry about the 300k American deaths
Make it 400,000 by the end of January.
The last time there were over 400k American deaths, was in WW2 and that was over a 5 year period.
I hears the average flu ''death toll'' in America is higher than the Covid deaths, and the ''flu season'' comes around ''every year'' do the maths.!!!!
Seriously Robert, go and google "us flu deaths per year" and see what you get...
Then maybe you can do the maths.
Meelk & Browny, Well said gents.
About 60K to the flu in a year & over 300K in 10 months to COVID & rising.The US' flu is worse?
Even Trump (privately) really knew how dangerous it was a month before the first death in the US.
https://youtu.be/tlavCxtccEc
Wish he told the truth and did something more about it than of pass it off, publically. Until it was too late...
You didn't factor in the fact the flu (all strains) come around every year ''world wide'' year after year, times that by the last 100 years and see what you come up with, oh and you can throw in the Spanish flu to if you wish, what are we up to world wide with Covid-19 thus far.?? lol i'll disregard your sour sarcasm. lol
And you think this was all trumps fault? Ha
I asked the question Browny, and thanks for the response. Apologies for any offence. My issue is the governors of a few big states did sweet nothing to assist..
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