On Saturday, Mr. Trump lost another court case as a Wisconsin federal judge, Judge Brett H. Ludwig, who was appointed to court by Mr. Trump this year, said his allegations “fail on legal and factual grounds.” The case has been dismissed with prejudice, which means that Mr Trump is prohibited from bringing cases for similar reasons in this district.
But civil rights lawyers saw the potential for permanent harm outside of the legal realm, where Republican efforts – and the lie that Mr Biden’s victory was the result of widespread fraud – definitely failed.
Republican lawmakers across the country are already considering new laws to make voting harder as they continue to falsely portray the expansion and ease of postal voting as shameful during the pandemic. Many of them see this year’s expanded voting ranks as bad for their party, despite the Republican successes further down the vote. Your consideration of new voting restrictions is an ongoing assault on the integrity of the voting system, with more false and debunked allegations.
“There is an anti-democratic virus that has spread in mainstream Republicanism among mainstream Republican elected officials,” said Dale Ho, director of the Voting Rights Project at ACLU. “And this loss of confidence in the machinery of democracy is much greater.” Problem than any single lawsuit. “
Indeed, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Texas Republican Party has called for secession by red states, whose attorneys general joined the Texas lawsuit.
“Perhaps law-abiding states should unite and form a union of states that adhere to the constitution,” said a statement by its chairman, Allen West. What followed was an observation Rush Limbaugh made earlier this week when he said, “I actually think we are leaning towards secession.”
Talk of secession came during a week when electoral officials from both political parties across the country said they had been threatened with threatening violence, including family members, for confessing to Mr Biden’s victory.
