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By William Bredderman<\/p>\n

Rudy Giuliani came off a\u00a0bizarre, sweaty, fact-free press conference<\/a>\u00a0Thursday with a legal play just as wild: Instead of providing a speck of evidence for the Trump campaign\u2019s claims of voter fraud, he\u2019s now calling on Pennsylvania to prove the ballots it counted were legal.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a desperate gambit to solve the problem that has bedeviled the president and his team since before the election: a lack of\u00a0concrete documentation<\/a>\u00a0of any wrongdoing. Despite\u00a0Giuliani\u2019s rants in federal court<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday about \u201cwidespread, nationwide voter fraud,\u201d the campaign\u2019s lawsuits have\u00a0focused on obscure technical matters<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0oft-recanted innuendo<\/a>\u00a0about allegedly suspicious activities at vote-counting sites.<\/p>\n

The strategy of\u00a0hurling legal Hail Marys<\/a>\u00a0into the electoral end zone has this\u00a0far failed<\/a>. So now Giuliani and co-counsel\u00a0Marc Scaringi<\/a>\u00a0are arguing in a new brief filed\u00a0in federal court<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday that\u00a0they<\/em>\u00a0don\u2019t have to prove anything at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this situation, Defendants should have the burden of proving the mail votes were legal,\u201d the document posits.<\/p>\n

The defendants in question are Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar and several county boards of election, including those covering Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and several suburbs that overwhelmingly supported President-elect Joe Biden. Boockvar\u2019s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

At the core of Giuliani and Scaringi\u2019s challenge is that COVID-19 restrictions deprived observers associated with President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign of the opportunity to sufficiently review ballots. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that these protocols did not violate<\/a>\u00a0regulations the rights afforded to such overseers under state law. The new Trump legal brief attacks this decision as \u201cpartisan\u201d and \u201cinexplicable,\u201d and asserts that it violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefendants excluded Trump and Republican watchers from meaningfully observing the canvassing, thereby ensuring that Plaintiffs would not have immediate means of showing the legal vis-\u00e0-vis illegal votes,\u201d the brief says.<\/p>\n

The brief further requests \u201ca short period of time to gather evidence about the magnitude of the violations.\u201d However, the deadline for the certification of the election results is this coming Monday. An extension Judge Matthew Brann granted Thursday permits the campaign to submit additional paperwork through Saturday.<\/p>\n

The legal team for several of the counties declined to comment. However, in their own brief, they noted that previous courts had determined that the burden of demonstrating electoral malfeasance falls on the plaintiff.<\/p>\n

The counties also argued the Trump campaign as an organization lacks standing to bring the suit, since it is primarily a fundraising vehicle and not an organization representing voters or even the candidate himself.<\/p>\n

Giuliani filed his latest brief hours after he helmed a press conference in which he sweated so much that hair coloring ran down his face as he dished up his latest conspiracy theory:\u00a0an alleged plot to<\/a>\u00a0rig voting machines involving billionaire George Soros and late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. In its only display of consistency, the Trump legal team supplied no evidence at the event.<\/p>\n

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