- The Supreme Court dismissed two lawsuits filed by Trump’s ally Sidney Powell.
- It extends the extraordinary losing streak to lawsuits that seek to overturn the results of the 2020 elections.
- President Joe Biden was sworn in more than a month ago.
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The Supreme Court formally rejected on Monday two of Sidney Powell’s lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 election results in the United States, dismissing any lingering ideas that Donald Trump would be declared the real winner.
As Law and Crime first reported, the court offered no comment in rejecting the two cases. One lawsuit sought to annul the results in Arizona, the other in Wisconsin.
Joe Biden, the winner of the presidential election, opened on January 20.
The cases – based on a bizarre conspiracy theory that electoral technology companies were in collusion with the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s regime to secretly reverse Trump’s votes for Biden – were widely expected. The Supreme Court rejected several other lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results.
The rejections also extend the series of surprising losses by Trump and his allies challenging the election results. Of the more than 40 lawsuits filed, all of them have failed.
Powell’s other two lawsuits, in Georgia and Michigan, also lost several rounds in court. The Supreme Court said earlier that it would not hear the Michigan case, and Powell had withdrawn the case from Georgia. Biden won all the states where Powell contested the election results.
Powell’s lawsuits and conspiracy theories opened the possibility of devastating consequences for her.
An electoral technology company that she falsely claimed to be part of a plot to falsify election results, Smartmatic, filed a defamation suit against her, Fox News and Rudy Giuliani, asking for $ 2.7 billion in damages. Another, Dominion Voting Systems, filed a $ 1.3 billion defamation suit against it. These companies have also filed other lawsuits and sent legal notices to people and companies that they have accused of repeating or promoting their claims.
She and the lawyers she worked with to file lawsuits in Michigan also face sanctions and may lose their legal licenses.
Trump’s lie that he was the real winner of the 2020 election led to an insurrection in the United States Capitol on January 6, by which he became the first president to suffer a second impeachment. The Senate acquitted him on February 13, with 57 senators voting to condemn him.
In his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday – his first major public speech since the insurrection – he once again defended the lie that he was the real winner of the elections.