JUSTICE DEPT. FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF ELECTION FRAUD

 

…Even the Trump biased Attorney General, William Barr has admitted that  Trump lost the election.

 

Last Friday, 126 of the 196 House GOP members had signed a failed Texas-led effort to reverse the presidential election.

 

Joe Biden won the election with 306 electoral college votes to Trump’s 232, and Biden leads the national popular vote by more than 7 million. Trump, who has refused to concede, has repeatedly pushed baseless claims and outright falsehoods, insisting the election was rigged.

There has been no evidence of widespread fraud in the election, and last week even Attorney General William Barr agreed that there was no evidence that would overturn Biden’s victory.

But even with that lack of evidence,  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was among 20 new names added Friday to an amicus brief filed by a majority of House Republicans in support of a Texas-led effort with the Supreme Court to effectively reverse the results of the presidential election.

With the names added Friday, 126 of the 196 House GOP members have now signed onto the brief, according to Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA).  Johnson said the additional names had been left off Thursday because of a “clerical error.”

The Texas lawsuit had  asked the court to dismiss the results in four swing states.  They were Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.  They all voted for President-elect Joe Biden, and the Texas action was one that President Trump was publicly championing.

The GOP response underscores the party’s loyalty to the very lame-duck president and most of those Republicans’ fear of drawing Trump’s twitter wrath, and that of his supporters ahead of the midterm elections in 2022.

Those signatures on the amicus brief claim that the election “has been riddled with an unprecedented number of serious allegations of fraud and irregularities.”  But the irregularities were caused only by the Covid-19 requirement for more people to us the “Vote by Mail” option over regular in-person voting. Otherwise, the election was listed as the most ever secure election from fraud.

The brief had urged the court to “provide an objective review of these anomalies and to determine for the people if indeed the Constitution has been followed and the rule of law maintained.”  But as stated, the only anomaly was an over abundance of mail-in votes.

In the lawsuit, Texas was seeking to sue the four+ swing states Trump won in 2016 and Biden carried in 2020, to void the election results, which it said were tainted. But even the Supreme Court decided not to accept the case as there was no evidence to support that the election was tainted.

The targeted states has said that any claims in the filings have already been examined by lower courts and totally dismissed.

A large number of legal scholars have said the lawsuit was meritless and based on unfounded claims. The scholars include Minority Whip Steve Scalise (La.) and Rep. Tom Emmer (Minn.), chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Notably, Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), the No. 3 House Republican, she would not sign the brief.

Mike Johnson, head of the conservative Republican Study Committee, spearheaded the effort to round up support on Capitol Hill. Johnson emailed all House Republicans on Wednesday to solicit signatures for the long-shot Texas case.  But as expected, President Trump had called and asked Johnson to ask for the signatures. The congressman told his colleagues that the president “will be anxiously awaiting the final list to review.”  That’s because the president would be bad-mouthing them on Twitter if any did not offer support of the lawsuit.

A handful of Republicans spoke out against the House Republicans effort. Among them was Rep. Chip Roy (Tex.), who said on Twitter that the case “represents a dangerous violation of federalism” and “sets a precedent to have one state asking federal courts to police the voting procedures of other states.  I cannot support an effort that will almost certainly fail on grounds of standing and is inconsistent with my beliefs about protecting Texas sovereignty from the meddling of other states,” Roy said.

The president on Sunday again falsely claimed that his campaign had won the election and Joe Biden had lost “badly”.  He also said that they had won Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia, which the Electoral College will vote today saying that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had won those states and had 306 E.C. votes, and 7 million more popular votes than Donald Trump.

 It is generally agreed that President Trump's consistent lying, and his refusal to concede is an international embarrassment for the United States.

If Trump keeps this up, we could be in for a 21^st century example of an American Civil War because of this lying president.

Copyright: G. Ater 2020