{"id":76971,"date":"2020-11-22T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=76971"},"modified":"2020-11-22T02:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T01:48:00","slug":"federal-judge-dismisses-trump-campaign-pennsylvania-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/federal-judge-dismisses-trump-campaign-pennsylvania-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge dismisses Trump campaign Pennsylvania lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1684021747549201704\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">US District Court judge Saturday dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump campaign trying to invalidate millions of Pennsylvania mail-in votes in a significant loss for the campaign.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But Judge Matthew Brann, a longtime and well-known Republican in Pennsylvania said the legal team showed no evidence that would compel the court disenfranchise seven million voters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cPlaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated,&#8221; US District Court Judge Matthew Brann wrote Saturday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201c One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens. That has not happened,&#8221; Brann added. &#8220;Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIn 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. 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