Trump keeps losing in court, but this one was a real blow to his efforts to undermine the midterms.
This morning, the Trump DOJ turned to the Supreme Court in their effort to have 20,000 ballots not counted in California, as they are wont to do when the lower courts repeatedly reject their efforts to undermine elections and harm US citizens.
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But just before 6 PM, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s appeal. The rejection was not even elaborate. It was an unsigned order.
SCOTUS Blog added, “There were no noted dissents.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) was claiming without evidence that the ballots were tied to individuals suspected of being noncitizens, but as we broke down this morning, the DOJ has gone full Four Seasons Total Landscaping on their election claims, and so what started off as them claiming there were nearly 200,000 people voting illegally became 20,000 but there are major irregularities in the data they presented and a lot of data missing.