Posted on 12/12/2020 4:06:36 PM PST by WXRGina
A federal judge in Wisconsin on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against the state elections commission.
The judge in the case, Brett Ludwig, who was appointed by Trump to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, held a hearing where the president’s lawyers made their arguments to set aside the result of the state’s popular election.
“This is an extraordinary case,” wrote Ludwig in his decision Saturday.
“A sitting president who did not prevail in his bid for reelection has asked for federal court help in setting aside the popular vote based on disputed issues of election administration, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred.”
“This Court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits,” the judge wrote. In his reply brief, plaintiff ‘asks that the Rule of Law be followed’ …. It has been,” the judge continued.
Ludwig dismissed the lawsuit “with prejudice.
Trump’s lawyers had argued that guidance issued by the Wisconsin Elections Commission related to absentee ballots, “along with election officials’ conduct in reliance on that guidance,” deviated so much from state election law “that the election was itself a ‘failure,’ ” Ludwig wrote.
But Ludwig wrote that Trump “has not proved that defendants violated his rights under the Electors Clause. To the contrary, the record shows Wisconsin’s Presidential Electors are being determined in the very manner directed by the Legislature, as required by Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution,” the judge said.
I watched the Wisconsin Supreme Court take arguments today. That hasn’t been dismissed (yet.)
OK, the trend seems to be, compliant has no standing, or the complaint has filed too late.
I don’t see any judge willing to hear the evidence and make a decision based on law. There are so many legal violations a blind, illiterate person could see them.
Trend is we’re screwed.
Exactly. THis is old, recycled news.
It is now being considered at the Supreme Court.
Mark Levin talked about the Catch 22. File too early and you don’t have damages. File too late and you should have filed earlier...
“setting aside the popular vote”
We want to set aside fraudulent ballots, not popular votes.
The reason it “doesn’t matter” is that even if Trump could prevail, it would mean he’d appoint more worthless judges like this one and the ones on SCOTUS who will also wuss out.
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The Rule of Law is dead. No judge is going to overturn this stolen election It will take using the Insurrection Act; but I doubt Trump has the will to do it.
This judge was confirmed 91-5 in the Senate. Seems like that should have indicated that too many Democrats liked him.
They got the OK to dismiss from SCOTUS. No judge is going to do squat.
Trend is we’re screwed.
Oh clutch the pearls Gladys! The path isnt to courts, its the House! It always has been! He needs to start rescreening the picks Cocaine Mitch is pissing through though!
Clutch pearls? Yes we are screwed and fools make jokes.
Obviously, in 2016 we elected a president when actually we needed a revolution.
A government of the government, by the government and for the government cannot be reformed, it can only be destroyed. The government class will simply reject all attempts at reform and eliminate the threat.
The Constitution and our national history have simply become trappings...a cute facade on your standard government oligarchy.
Any Trump appointment that got more than 55 votes or so was an automatic bust.
I had a feeling that would happen.
Oh yeah, Pres. Trump sure hasn't had the will to do anything so far, has he? /s
These are not Trump judges, their mcconnell judges and from the federalist society. mcconnell would not allow Trump to appoint anyone mcconnell did not select.
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