- President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday in his latest explosion following his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
- The president repeated his earlier claim that “legitimacy” is missing: the legal concept of whether a person has the right to file a particular lawsuit.
- Trump said he had “PROOF” of widespread fraud in the 2020 elections, but did not provide such evidence.
- Trump and his campaign legal team have so far lost all attempts to reverse the election result.
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With less than a month to go, President Donald Trump on Saturday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for his refusal to intervene in the 2020 election, which Trump lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
“The United States Supreme Court was totally incompetent and weak in the massive electoral fraud that occurred in the 2020 presidential elections”, he said in a tweet just before 9 am on Saturday. “We have absolute PROOF, but they don’t want to see it – No ‘position’, they say. If there are corrupt elections, we have no country!”
During his tenure, Trump successfully appointed three judges to the court: Judge Neil Gorsuch in 2017, Judge Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and, most recently, Judge Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.
Trump has Complained previously about their lack of legitimacy to file the desired actions, which is the legal concept of whether a person has the legal capacity to file a particular action before a specific court. Trump and his campaign turned to legal challenges immediately after his defeat, but he and Republican officials did not win any of the 40 challenges they presented.
Moments later, on Saturday, Trump in another tweet launched a subsequent attack on the sanctity of the U.S. election, claiming that he spoke to someone who told him “the elections in Afghanistan are much safer and much better than the 2020 elections in the U.S. . “
“Ours, with its millions and millions of corrupt postal ballots, was the election of a third world country,” Trump said, without evidence, calling the president-elect a “fake president”
—Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2020
Trump made several baseless allegations, ranging from widespread electoral fraud, which was unmasked by former Attorney General William Barr, to a Democratic ploy to “defraud” the election after his defeat to Biden, who will take office on 20 September. January.
Earlier this week, as Insider’s Jacob Shamsian reported, Trump filed another direct appeal with the Supreme Court to challenge the results of the Pennsylvania election. But even in the unlikely event, the Supreme Court heard the case and overturned the lower courts’ decisions against the president, Trump still wouldn’t have enough votes from the Electoral College to circumvent Biden’s victory.
Biden won 306 votes at the Electoral College and, even without the 20 from Pennsylvania, he would still have more than the 270 needed to guarantee victory. Trump got 232 votes at the Electoral College.
And in early December, the Supreme Court refused to hear a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas, which had been encouraged by Republicans in Congress, as reported by NBC News. In a short, unsigned opinion, the court said the state “has shown no judicially recognizable interest in the way another state conducts its elections”.
At the center of Trump’s complaints are states changing from red to blue in the hours and days after the election. In reality, the results shifted from Trump to Biden after election night, as more ballots were counted. Trump had repeatedly discouraged his supporters from voting in the mail, falsely claiming that they were prone to fraud. Democrats and local officials encouraged them to reduce crowding at polling stations during the coronavirus pandemic.