收录、转贴的要求 (对自己)、建议：
1. 欢迎转贴，必须要先读懂一些法律、选举的术语再转，比如涉及什么是 absentee ballots,
provisional ballots, reprint ballots；
2. 写明白究竟起诉的是什么样的事件/规则性问题；没有变成法庭交涉、起诉的不收录；
3. 区别非司法性质的 challenges，例如申请 WI 重新验票是 WI 在差距 <1% 的情况下本来就允许的；
4. 上诉成功的、得到解决的也可以转贴，我会收录在二楼，还没有决定的不要着急贴。
一楼贴被法官 dismissed / denied 的各种花式 lawsuits，会持续更新
Dec. 11: (Texas v. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin) Supreme Court rejects Texas' effort to overturn election, declining to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of the election held by another state.
www.nbcnews.com
Georgia:
Nov. 4: President Trump's campaign filed the lawsuit against the Chatham County Board of Elections Wednesday evening, alleging that 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots. County elections officials testified that all 53 ballots had been received on time.
thehill.com
Nov. 19: U.S. District Court Judge Steven Grimberg, a Trump nominee, ruled against conservative attorney Lin Wood, a Trump ally, in his lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger seeking to prevent the election results from being certified by the Friday deadline.
www.wsj.com
Dec. 4: In a suit brought by controversial lawyers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal seeking to expand a restraining order a district court judge issued Sunday barring any alterations to voting machines in three Georgia counties. A unanimous three-judge panel of the court rejected the appeal without even hearing oral arguments from the litigants.
www.politico.com
Dec. 5: Lin Wood lost another round in federal court as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a prior rejection of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
thehill.com
Dec. 7: U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten in Atlanta granted a motion to dismiss Powell’s lawsuit seeking to overturn and "decertify" Georgia's election results.
www.nbcnewyork.com
Jan. 5: Judge Mark Cohen denied another attempt by President Trump to decertify presidential election results in Georgia amid fallout from Trump's call to pressure state officials to "find" votes. Trump had sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp on New Year's Eve, seeking the emergency hearing on his request for an injunction.
www.cnn.com
Michigan (不允许失信选举人):
Nov. 5: The Trump camp asked that Benson order local election officials to allow challengers to “meaningfully participate and oversee” the voting and counting process. Judge Cynthia Stephens said that while Benson is responsible for overseeing the election process in Michigan, she would not be able to provide the relief the Trump campaign is seeking, as the counting process is largely completed, and “no basis to find that there is a substantial likelihood of success on the merits.”
www.foxnews.com
Nov. 13: Wayne County Circuit Chief Judge Timothy M. Kenny rejected Republicans’ requests to delay the certification of election results in Detroit, saying he saw no convincing evidence of election fraud at a center for counting absentee ballots. The judge also said that the allegations of misconduct, made by GOP poll watchers and one Detroit election official, were “not credible.”
www.cnn.com
Dec. 4: A state appeals court in Michigan tossed an effort by the Trump campaign to block certification of Michigan’s results. The judges who issued the 2-1 ruling noted that while the Trump lawyers delayed their latest round of filings for weeks, the state had gone ahead and certified the election, making the legal challenge moot.
Dec. 7: Detroit-based U.S. District Court Judge Linda Parker determined that the lawsuit was full of “nothing but speculation and conjecture” and that Powell and her clients’ goal of forcing the state’s electors to vote for Trump even though Joe Biden won the state, was not only impossible since the state has already certified its results, it was also meant to disenfranchise voters.
www.politico.com
Pennsylvania:
Oct. 19 (选前) 首席大法官 John Roberts 4-4 维持宾州法院原判，邮寄选票只要 11月3号 8pm 前寄出、11月6号 5pm 前寄到都有效。收录在这里的原因是，基于不追溯既往的原则，这个裁决不可能简单地让 Barrett 大法官参与就 5-4 改判。The Supreme Court justices split 4-4 on Oct. 19 over a Republican plea to undo a state court order and force elections officials to ignore absentee ballots received after Election Day, Nov. 3. The tie vote left the Pennsylvania court order in effect and allows mailed ballots to be counted if they are received by Nov. 6. Chief Justice John Roberts and his three liberal colleagues voted to leave the court order in place.
apnews.com
Nov. 5: A federal judge denied an emergency request from U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday to stop ballot counting in Philadelphia so long as Republican observers were not present.
www.reuters.com
Nov. 13: Two judges in Pennsylvania tossed a half dozen court cases the Trump campaign had brought to invalidate thousands of votes around Philadelphia. In total, the Trump campaign had sought to throw out almost 9,000 absentee ballots because their outer envelopes lack names, dates or addresses or some combination of the three that voters could have filled out.
www.cnn.com
Nov. 19: Two more Pennsylvania legal challenges by President Donald Trump's campaign appear to have failed, insuring that more than 2,700 ballots that had been contested over technicalities would, in fact, be counted.
abcnews.go.com
Nov. 21: U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign that sought to invalidate millions of mail-in votes and block the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results.
www.nbcnews.com
Nov. 27: A panel of three judges for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump campaign's effort to revive a federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania, ruling "the claims have no merit."
abcnews.go.com
Nov. 28: Pennsylvania Supreme Court tosses lawsuit by Rep. Mike Kelly and others that tried to invalidate absentee voting and block vote certification
www.politico.com
Dec. 8: SCOTUS denied request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block certification of Joe Biden's win in the state
www.cbsnews.com
Arizona (不允许失信选举人):
Nov. 19: A judge has rejected the Arizona Republican Party’s bid to postpone the certification of election results in Maricopa County and dismissed the party’s legal challenge that sought to redo a hand-count audit of ballots.
apnews.com
Dec. 4: In Arizona, Judge Randall Warner of the Maricopa County Superior Court dismissed part of a challenge brought by state GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward, saying she had brought the claim too late. But he held an hours-long hearing Thursday on another piece of her suit, allowing her lawyers to present evidence they claimed shows that the processing of ballots in Maricopa County was so flawed that the election results — which were certified this week — were either wrong or so uncertain that they should not be allowed to stand. On Friday, Judge Randall Warner tossed the suit and ruled that he found "no misconduct, no fraud and no effect on the outcome of the election".
Dec. 15: Pinal County Judge Kevin White concluded that plaintiff Staci Burk lacked standing to contest the election because she wasn’t a registered voter at the time she filed her lawsuit and that she made her legal challenge after the 5-day period for filing such an action had passed.
apnews.com
Nevada (不允许失信选举人):
Nov. 20: A Nevada district judge denied a request brought by a conservative activist to halt the certification of the state's election results.
www.cnn.com
Dec. 4: In a detailed, 35-page decision, Judge James T. Russell of the Nevada District Court in Carson City vetted each claim of fraud and wrongdoing made by the Trump campaign in the state and found that none was supported by convincing proof. The judge ruled that the Trump campaign failed to offer any basis for annulling more than 1.3 million votes cast in the state’s presidential race.
Minnesota (不允许失信选举人):
Dec. 4: The Minnesota State Supreme Court rejected Republicans’ proposal for a full statewide recount and chided them for failing to serve their complaint on the county officials they called out in their filings.
Wisconsin (允许失信选举人):
Dec. 4: Wisconsin Supreme Court decided not to hear a lawsuit filed by a conservative group to invalidate the entire election in that state without any compelling evidence of voter fraud or misconduct.
Dec. 12: U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig dismissed Mr. Trump's federal lawsuit asking the court to order the Republican-controlled Legislature to name Mr. Trump the winner over Democrat Joe Biden. The judge said Mr. Trump's arguments "fail as a matter of law and fact."
www.usatoday.com
Dec. 11-12: Trump brought a lawsuit directly to the state Supreme Court, but the justices rejected it on a 4-3 vote on Dec. 3, saying he should start in lower court. Trump then filed a new challenge and Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek on Friday ruled against Trump, saying officials had run a fair election that was free of widespread fraud and misconduct. Hours later, Trump appealed and asked the Supreme Court to take up the case rather than have it go to the Court of Appeals. The justices agreed to take the case and scheduled arguments on Dec. 12.
www.usatoday.com
Dec. 14: A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s lawsuit attempting to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state, ending Trump’s legal challenges in state court about an hour before the Electoral College was to meet to cast the state’s 10 votes for Biden.
www.pbs.org
Dec. 24: A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected Trump's appeal of a lower court's ruling in Trump v. Wisconsin Elections Commission on December 24.
www.politico.com
1. 欢迎转贴，必须要先读懂一些法律、选举的术语再转，比如涉及什么是 absentee ballots,
provisional ballots, reprint ballots；
2. 写明白究竟起诉的是什么样的事件/规则性问题；没有变成法庭交涉、起诉的不收录；
3. 区别非司法性质的 challenges，例如申请 WI 重新验票是 WI 在差距 <1% 的情况下本来就允许的；
4. 上诉成功的、得到解决的也可以转贴，我会收录在二楼，还没有决定的不要着急贴。
一楼贴被法官 dismissed / denied 的各种花式 lawsuits，会持续更新
Dec. 11: (Texas v. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin) Supreme Court rejects Texas' effort to overturn election, declining to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of the election held by another state.
Supreme Court rejects Texas’ effort to overturn election in fatal blow to Trump legal blitz to stop Biden
"The Supreme Court has decisively and speedily rejected the latest of Donald Trump and his allies’ attacks on the democratic process," said Biden campaign spokesman Mike Gwin.
www.nbcnews.com
Georgia:
Nov. 4: President Trump's campaign filed the lawsuit against the Chatham County Board of Elections Wednesday evening, alleging that 53 absentee ballots that poll observers said were not part of an original batch of ballots. County elections officials testified that all 53 ballots had been received on time.
Georgia judge throws out Trump campaign lawsuit on absentee ballots
A judge in Georgia on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit from the Trump campaign over the state’s handling of absentee ballots just hours after it was filed in Chatham County court.Chatham County S…
thehill.com
Nov. 19: U.S. District Court Judge Steven Grimberg, a Trump nominee, ruled against conservative attorney Lin Wood, a Trump ally, in his lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger seeking to prevent the election results from being certified by the Friday deadline.
Georgia Judge Rejects Republican Lawsuit Disputing Election Results
A federal judge in Atlanta on Thursday rejected a lawsuit contesting the election results in Georgia, where President-elect Joe Biden leads President Trump. The plaintiff in the lawsuit was L. Lin Wood, a defamation attorney and conservative activist whose clients have included 1996 Atlanta Olympic
Dec. 4: In a suit brought by controversial lawyers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal seeking to expand a restraining order a district court judge issued Sunday barring any alterations to voting machines in three Georgia counties. A unanimous three-judge panel of the court rejected the appeal without even hearing oral arguments from the litigants.
Donald Trump’s brutal day in court
Several of the most devastating opinions, both Friday and in recent weeks, have come from conservative judges and, in some federal cases, Trump appointees.
Dec. 5: Lin Wood lost another round in federal court as the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a prior rejection of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
Appeals court rejects effort to block Biden’s win in Georgia
A federal appeals court shot down a bid by a conservative lawyer to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia, handing down the latest setback for the sprawling legal effort to…
thehill.com
Dec. 7: U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten in Atlanta granted a motion to dismiss Powell’s lawsuit seeking to overturn and "decertify" Georgia's election results.
Federal Judge Dismisses Sidney Powell Lawsuit That Sought to Overturn Trump Loss in Georgia
The dismissal of Sidney Powell’s cases in Georgia and Michigan are blows to Trump’s long-shot effort to deny Biden a victory in the Electoral College.
www.nbcnewyork.com
Jan. 5: Judge Mark Cohen denied another attempt by President Trump to decertify presidential election results in Georgia amid fallout from Trump's call to pressure state officials to "find" votes. Trump had sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp on New Year's Eve, seeking the emergency hearing on his request for an injunction.
Judge rejects another Trump attempt to decertify Georgia votes
A federal judge in Georgia denied yet another attempt by President Donald Trump to decertify its presidential election results and President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
Michigan (不允许失信选举人):
Nov. 5: The Trump camp asked that Benson order local election officials to allow challengers to “meaningfully participate and oversee” the voting and counting process. Judge Cynthia Stephens said that while Benson is responsible for overseeing the election process in Michigan, she would not be able to provide the relief the Trump campaign is seeking, as the counting process is largely completed, and “no basis to find that there is a substantial likelihood of success on the merits.”
Michigan judge denies Trump campaign ballot counting lawsuit
A Michigan judge ruled against Trump Campaign lawyers on Thursday afternoon, finding the relief the Trump team is seeking is ultimately unavailable through Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Nov. 13: Wayne County Circuit Chief Judge Timothy M. Kenny rejected Republicans’ requests to delay the certification of election results in Detroit, saying he saw no convincing evidence of election fraud at a center for counting absentee ballots. The judge also said that the allegations of misconduct, made by GOP poll watchers and one Detroit election official, were “not credible.”
Michigan judge rejects demand to block certification of Biden win in Detroit
A Michigan state judge has rejected an attempt by two poll challengers to block the certification of a Joe Biden win in Detroit, which helped carry his victory in the state. The judge also denied the request for an audit of the election.
Dec. 4: A state appeals court in Michigan tossed an effort by the Trump campaign to block certification of Michigan’s results. The judges who issued the 2-1 ruling noted that while the Trump lawyers delayed their latest round of filings for weeks, the state had gone ahead and certified the election, making the legal challenge moot.
Dec. 7: Detroit-based U.S. District Court Judge Linda Parker determined that the lawsuit was full of “nothing but speculation and conjecture” and that Powell and her clients’ goal of forcing the state’s electors to vote for Trump even though Joe Biden won the state, was not only impossible since the state has already certified its results, it was also meant to disenfranchise voters.
Federal judges reject GOP effort to overturn swing state election results
Judges in Georgia and Michigan dealt severe blows to Republican efforts to decertify President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
Pennsylvania:
Oct. 19 (选前) 首席大法官 John Roberts 4-4 维持宾州法院原判，邮寄选票只要 11月3号 8pm 前寄出、11月6号 5pm 前寄到都有效。收录在这里的原因是，基于不追溯既往的原则，这个裁决不可能简单地让 Barrett 大法官参与就 5-4 改判。The Supreme Court justices split 4-4 on Oct. 19 over a Republican plea to undo a state court order and force elections officials to ignore absentee ballots received after Election Day, Nov. 3. The tie vote left the Pennsylvania court order in effect and allows mailed ballots to be counted if they are received by Nov. 6. Chief Justice John Roberts and his three liberal colleagues voted to leave the court order in place.
Democrats: Justices' 4-4 tie in election case ominous sign
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Amy Coney Barrett expected to join the Supreme Court as early as next week, the court's action in a Pennsylvania voting case has heightened fears among Democrats about the court being asked to decide a post-election dispute and with it, the winner of the White House.
apnews.com
Nov. 5: A federal judge denied an emergency request from U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign on Thursday to stop ballot counting in Philadelphia so long as Republican observers were not present.
Judge denies Trump campaign bid to halt Philadelphia count
A federal judge denied an emergency request from U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign on Thursday to stop ballot counting in Philadelphia so long as Republican observers were not present.
Nov. 13: Two judges in Pennsylvania tossed a half dozen court cases the Trump campaign had brought to invalidate thousands of votes around Philadelphia. In total, the Trump campaign had sought to throw out almost 9,000 absentee ballots because their outer envelopes lack names, dates or addresses or some combination of the three that voters could have filled out.
Judges rule against Trump campaign in 6 Pennsylvania cases over absentee ballots
Two judges in Pennsylvania on Friday tossed a half dozen court cases the Trump campaign had brought to invalidate thousands of votes around Philadelphia, where voters carried President-elect Joe Biden to a clear win in the battleground state.
Nov. 19: Two more Pennsylvania legal challenges by President Donald Trump's campaign appear to have failed, insuring that more than 2,700 ballots that had been contested over technicalities would, in fact, be counted.
Trump legal effort hits wall in 2 Pennsylvania cases over technical ballot errors
It would be "an injustice to disenfranchise these voters," the judge said.
Nov. 21: U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, dismissed a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign that sought to invalidate millions of mail-in votes and block the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results.
'Not how the Constitution works:' Federal judge dismisses Trump bid to stop Pennsylvania vote certification
“In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state," the judge wrote.
www.nbcnews.com
Nov. 27: A panel of three judges for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump campaign's effort to revive a federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Pennsylvania, ruling "the claims have no merit."
Appeals court rejects Trump challenge of Pennsylvania race
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia has rejected President Donald Trump’s latest effort to challenge the election results in a case expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court if Trump appeals
Nov. 28: Pennsylvania Supreme Court tosses lawsuit by Rep. Mike Kelly and others that tried to invalidate absentee voting and block vote certification
Pennsylvania high court tosses lawmaker’s petition to halt election certification
The seven-member court unanimously agreed that the effort to halt the election results came too late.
Dec. 8: SCOTUS denied request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block certification of Joe Biden's win in the state
Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to overturn Biden's victory in Pennsylvania
The high court spurned a request from Republican allies of President Trump to decertify Pennsylvania's election results.
www.cbsnews.com
Arizona (不允许失信选举人):
Nov. 19: A judge has rejected the Arizona Republican Party’s bid to postpone the certification of election results in Maricopa County and dismissed the party’s legal challenge that sought to redo a hand-count audit of ballots.
Judge rejects GOP bid to delay vote certification in Phoenix
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has rejected the Arizona Republican Party’s bid to postpone the certification of election results in Maricopa County and dismissed the party’s legal challenge that sought a new audit of a sampling of ballots.
apnews.com
Dec. 4: In Arizona, Judge Randall Warner of the Maricopa County Superior Court dismissed part of a challenge brought by state GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward, saying she had brought the claim too late. But he held an hours-long hearing Thursday on another piece of her suit, allowing her lawyers to present evidence they claimed shows that the processing of ballots in Maricopa County was so flawed that the election results — which were certified this week — were either wrong or so uncertain that they should not be allowed to stand. On Friday, Judge Randall Warner tossed the suit and ruled that he found "no misconduct, no fraud and no effect on the outcome of the election".
Dec. 15: Pinal County Judge Kevin White concluded that plaintiff Staci Burk lacked standing to contest the election because she wasn’t a registered voter at the time she filed her lawsuit and that she made her legal challenge after the 5-day period for filing such an action had passed.
8th lawsuit fails to overturn presidential voting in Arizona
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge dismissed another lawsuit Tuesday that sought to decertify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Arizona, marking the eighth failed case that challenged the election results in the state.
apnews.com
Nevada (不允许失信选举人):
Nov. 20: A Nevada district judge denied a request brought by a conservative activist to halt the certification of the state's election results.
Nevada judge denies request to halt state certification of election results | CNN Politics
A Nevada district judge on Friday denied a request brought by a conservative activist to halt the certification next week of the state's election results that show President-elect Joe Biden leading in Nevada by more than 33,000 votes.
Dec. 4: In a detailed, 35-page decision, Judge James T. Russell of the Nevada District Court in Carson City vetted each claim of fraud and wrongdoing made by the Trump campaign in the state and found that none was supported by convincing proof. The judge ruled that the Trump campaign failed to offer any basis for annulling more than 1.3 million votes cast in the state’s presidential race.
Minnesota (不允许失信选举人):
Dec. 4: The Minnesota State Supreme Court rejected Republicans’ proposal for a full statewide recount and chided them for failing to serve their complaint on the county officials they called out in their filings.
Wisconsin (允许失信选举人):
Dec. 4: Wisconsin Supreme Court decided not to hear a lawsuit filed by a conservative group to invalidate the entire election in that state without any compelling evidence of voter fraud or misconduct.
Dec. 12: U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig dismissed Mr. Trump's federal lawsuit asking the court to order the Republican-controlled Legislature to name Mr. Trump the winner over Democrat Joe Biden. The judge said Mr. Trump's arguments "fail as a matter of law and fact."
Federal court judge dismisses 'extraordinary' Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn Wisconsin election
U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig\u00a0— a Trump nominee\u00a0— concluded Wisconsin officials had followed state laws when they conducted the Nov. 3 election.
www.usatoday.com
Dec. 11-12: Trump brought a lawsuit directly to the state Supreme Court, but the justices rejected it on a 4-3 vote on Dec. 3, saying he should start in lower court. Trump then filed a new challenge and Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek on Friday ruled against Trump, saying officials had run a fair election that was free of widespread fraud and misconduct. Hours later, Trump appealed and asked the Supreme Court to take up the case rather than have it go to the Court of Appeals. The justices agreed to take the case and scheduled arguments on Dec. 12.
Wisconsin Supreme Court shows divisions as it hears Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn state's election
The three liberals on the state's high court showed extreme skepticism toward Trump's arguments. Three conservatives showed some support for at least parts of his claims.
www.usatoday.com
Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Trump election lawsuit
The president sought to have more than 221,000 ballots disqualified in Dane and Milwaukee counties, the state's two most heavily Democratic counties.
www.pbs.org
Trump campaign suffers another legal setback in Wisconsin case
Republicans also lost a Georgia court case related to the Jan. 5 runoffs.
最后编辑:
