Seeking to join a last-ditch effort to overturn Joe Biden's victory, the president's attorney says "it is not necessary...to prove that fraud occurred."
17 states submitted a brief supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to prevent the selection of electors in four states, but only 6 joined today's motion to intervene. [Update: Meanwhile, Ohio files a brief that's worth reading.]
To move back in a libertarian direction, the Republican Party will have to do more than jettison Trump. But as long as it remains in Trump's thrall, that reversal is all but impossible.
The Constitution “plainly makes the appointment of electors a state-by-state matter.”
Donald Trump, 17 State Attorneys General, and a bunch of Republican former office holders submit briefs to the Supreme Court.
The case is within the Court' original jurisdiction. But longstanding precedent still allows the Court to dismiss it without full consideration.
The president and his allies keep losing election cases.
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The justices declined to intervene on behalf of Republicans who challenged absentee voting in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's response to Rep. Kelly's effort to invalidate Pennsylvania's election results.
Embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton is the latest to ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the 2020 Presidential election results.
According to the ruling, the former Trump attorney also filed the wrong claims in the wrong court at the wrong time on behalf of the wrong plaintiffs.
"Don't listen to my friends," the president says, referring to supporters who took his fraud allegations seriously.
States where recreational use has been legalized now include about a third of the U.S. population.
Trump could have reined in his Twitter attacks, surrounded himself with truth-tellers rather than sycophants, and reached out to other voters. He didn't. That's why he lost.
"This is about restoring faith and confidence in American elections," the president says.
Fans of limited government have a lot to be happy about. It's much harder to go big when you are constantly at risk of being told to go home.
Circumstances change and the world may grow more complicated, but authoritarians never vary from their demand for more power over our lives.
The former Trump attorney's election fraud lawsuits feature the same sort of dubious evidence that has failed to impress courts across the country.
With no name recognition, no money, and no media, the Jorgensen campaign helped cement the L.P.'s decadelong transformation into the third party in the United States.
Which leaves the U.S. without a major party even slightly inclined to leave people alone to manage their own affairs.
Trying to counter viral election fraud claims is like playing whack-a-mole. [With Updates]
Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo uncritically accepts Trump's outlandish conspiracy theory.
"The Campaign cannot win this lawsuit," the 3rd Circuit says. "The Campaign's claims have no merit."
We're expected to suffer discomfort, economic pain, and emotional distress or else pay fines or serve jail time. Government officials, meanwhile, take offense when called out for violating the standards they created.
Judge Stephanos Bibas, on behalf of unanimous panel, finds the Trump campaigns arguments have "no merit."
Unfortunately, I'd guess the party did just well enough in the last election to punt those discussions to another day.
Aaron Van Langevelde, Brad Raffensperger, and other state and local officials did the right thing and steered America away from the precipice.
At least nine GOP senators are publicly urging the president to concede or questioning his claim that he actually won.
Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede.
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A statement signed by multiple VC contributors calling on Donald Trump and the Republican Party to accept the election result and stop promoting unsubstantiated accusations of fraud.
Both the president and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, have publicly embraced Powell's wild claims about voting machine manipulation.
The Pennsylvania Senator offered an appropriate response to the Trump campaign's failed election litigation
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann rejected an attempt to block certification of Pennsylvania's election results.
Without a shred of evidence, Sidney Powell is alleging a conspiracy more vast than Russiagate. Shouldn't that raise red flags?
His promotion of far-fetched conspiracy theories about the election is highly unlikely to change the results. But it is damaging, nonetheless.
Although the president's lawyer says the anti-Trump conspiracy is "easily provable," the affidavits he cites fall notably short.
The brief filed by Univ. of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson and myself explains why the Trump administration's efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment count for allocating seats in the House of Representatives goes against the text and original meaning of the Constitution.
Post-election conspiracy-mongering demonstrates the limits of "libertarian populism."
Anyone who was rooting for both "teams" to lose on Election Day should be fairly satisfied right now.
St. Louis residents agree to shift to approval voting for local primaries.
With a lot of money spent for little results, the most recent election was a rebuttal to arguments for campaign finance reform.
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