Trump Files Pointless Lawsuit in New Mexico as Electoral College Votes
Not content to lose court battles in close states, Trump files DOA suit in New Mexico, where Biden won by almost 100,000 votes.
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As the Electoral College voted on Monday to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory on Monday, President Donald Trump moved to add yet another loss to his almost-unblemished record of post-election legal defeats.
Like a boxer attempting to rise from the mat hours after the last bell has rung, the crowd has left, and the janitor has swept up the popcorn, the lame-duck president’s team filed a federal suit in New Mexico—a state Biden carried by close to 100,000 votes—seeking an injunction against “any official action” by the state’s five electors. The motion appears dead-on-arrival, since the filing roughly coincided with the panel Land of Enchantment voting to award the state to Biden.
The suit largely repeats arguments Republicans have made regarding far-closer states than New Mexico, and which state and federal judges, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, have dismissed with varying degrees of derision: that state executives usurped the legislature’s constitutional powers by instituting new mail-in voting rules in response to the pandemic.
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