Giuliani: Trump approves refiling in state court in six swing states

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s dismissal of the Texas lawsuit against four swing states, Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said Saturday (Dec. 12) that President Trump has given his legal team permission to refile a new batch of reorganized lawsuits in state courts in six swing states, including Arizona and Nevada.

In an interview with Steve Bannon’s “War Room” on Saturday, Giuliani said that after receiving word that the Supreme Court had dismissed the Texas lawsuit, the Trump legal camp immediately initiated a Plan B, which involves filing lawsuits in state courts in each of the relevant states.

He said that the Trump legal camp had already prepared Option B before receiving the news. This Option B lawsuit is a separate version of the complaint filed by Texas with the Supreme Court to be filed in the relevant state courts. And after President Trump learned of the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the Texas case on the evening of Dec. 11, he approved the initiation of Option B.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 11 dismissed Texas’ lawsuit against the four swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, WI and Joe for unconstitutionality. The Trump legal camp has already filed lawsuits in certain states (e.g., WI) or will file similar pleadings in local courts in the relevant states starting Sunday, Dec. 13. And this time, it has also added the filing of general election fraud lawsuits in the local courts of two swing states, Arizona and Nevada.

Giuliani said: “If there is no legal basis for what the state government is doing, there is certainly a legal basis for what President Trump is doing. The state legislatures also have a legal basis, and we’ll be filing these pleadings in those state courts, starting today.”

Giuliani also said that multiple courts have been refusing to hear the Trump camp’s election fraud case under the pretext of lacking legal grounds in order to avoid acknowledging the fact that the 2020 election was stolen. He said, “We’ll see what other excuses they use to avoid hearing these cases.”

He added: “What these courts are doing is so uncharacteristic that the American people are not aware of these facts at this time, and the American people should be aware of these facts …… No court has heard this case yet, they haven’t heard a single eyewitness testimony, they haven’t looked at any video, they haven’t listened to a single recording. And we have thousands of these pieces of evidence in our hands. They haven’t even bothered to look at the video about Atlanta, Georgia, and that video is decisive evidence because that video shows that 30,000 votes were stolen in that state, and that was enough to change the outcome of the election in Georgia.”