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| Subject: Trump supporters want Supreme Court to review another Michigan election case Sun Dec 13, 2020 1:21 am | |
| Lansing — Six of President Donald Trump's supporters in Michigan want the U.S. Supreme Court to consider their case to overturn the state's election results based on conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated claims of fraud. It's an attempt that's unlikely to succeed, according to other lawyers involved the matter. On Friday night, the nation's high court denied a lawsuit championed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who hoped to challenge the results in four battleground states, including Michigan, that voted for President-elect Joe Biden. The Supreme Court said Paxton lacked standing to bring his case, which focused on the states' election laws. Also on Friday night, attorneys representing six Michigan residents informed the defendants in a separate case that they intended to seek an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to consider their claims against the state's election.
The case in question involves President Donald Trump supporter and conservative attorney Sidney Powell. She originally brought the litigation in Michigan's Eastern District on behalf of three individuals who would have been presidential electors for Trump and three local GOP officials. Trump supporters have engaged in a weeks-long effort to try to discredit Michigan's election. But many of their core claims have been based on speculation, are incorrect or have been rejected by election experts. "The fraud" in Michigan "begins with the election software and hardware from Dominion Voting Systems Corporation," which is used by some counties in the state, Powell's initial Michigan suit said.
... Now, the Republicans are hoping to go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court to get their appeal heard on an emergency basis. The Board of State Canvassers certified Michigan's results on Nov. 23 after bipartisan boards in each of Michigan 83 counties certified county results.
According to a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court obtained by The Detroit News, the Republicans want the nation's high court to decertify the election results or "certify the results of the general election for office of the president in favor of President Donald Trump." The filing hadn't shown up on the U.S. Supreme Court's official docket as of Saturday afternoon. The petition claims there were "abuses of absentee ballots, fraudulent ballots, manufactured ballots, flipped votes, trashed votes and injected votes" in Michigan elections. "The trial court completely and utterly ignorged (sic) the dozens of affidavits, testimonials, expert opinions, diagrams and photos that supported the petitioners' claim seeking an injunction of the voting process," according to a petition signed by multiple attorneys, including Powell.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/12/trump-backers-want-supreme-court-review-michigan-election-case/6523384002/
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