Rudy Giuliani, the lead lawyer for the Trump team, said Monday (Dec. 21) that his team’s judicial action to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn three Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions is just the first of many efforts to overturn election fraud.
President Trump also called Monday for the Justice Department and “others” to step up their efforts to challenge the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s comments came during a conference call for the American Student Action Summit. He also told people he won a “landslide victory.
Giuliani told Sean Spicer, host of Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.” on Monday, “You have to go state by state.”
Giuliani said, as he sees it, it has to be won in one of those states. “I think we have three good choices: Pennsylvania, Georgia and Arizona.”
He said he believes his team has proven enough election fraud in any of those cases “that in those three states, the state legislatures have a very, very strong base to determine that the election was stolen.”
He said that under the U.S. Constitution, state legislatures are the final arbiters, which is why his team has been holding hearings in each state to present their case that the electoral votes submitted by those states are inaccurate.
On Sunday (Dec. 20), Giuliani issued a statement announcing that the Trump legal team filed a lawsuit with the federal Supreme Court to overturn the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling in several cases in which the state changed its mail-in ballot law before and after the election. This is the first time the Trump team has independently filed a complaint in the Supreme Court.
The cases allege that Pennsylvania illegally changed the state’s vote-by-mail law around the 2020 presidential election, in violation of Article II of the U.S. Constitution and Bush v. Gore, the statement reads.
In his statement, Giuliani also said the complaint seeks all appropriate remedies, including revoking the appointment of the electors who voted for Joe Biden and allowing the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose their replacement electors.
Asked Monday about reports that in a White House meeting, Trump discussed appointing Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor and former Trump team lawyer, as a special election prosecutor to investigate election fraud, Trump called the news “fake news.
Giuliani said, “Let me be clear: Sidney Powell has not been on our legal team for five weeks. She is not the special counsel to the president. She doesn’t speak for the president and she doesn’t speak for the administration. She represents herself, and she’s a good woman and a good lawyer, but whatever she’s saying is her personal opinion, and I’m not responsible for those words, nor is the president, nor is the rest of our legal team.”
He added that he and his team will be “extremely aggressive” in the fight, adding also, “We will do it within the bounds of reasonableness, common sense and the law.”
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