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Trump's latest failed legal challenge comes from U.S. District Court Judge Brett Ludwig, who ruled that the president's federal lawsuit seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win has no merit. Ludwig was nominated for his current spot on the district court bench by Trump himself. His ruling comes as arguments are being heard in Trump's state lawsuit against Wisconsin's elections commission. All of the president's legal attempts to overturn the election have been dismissed across several states he lost to Biden, including Wisconsin, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia.
Ludwig's conclusion in his ruling reiterated that all of Trump's complaints about the Wisconsin Legislature's "chosen manner" of conducting the election should have been surfaced before the election took place. A lawsuit "dismissed with prejudice" is legal jargon meaning the plaintiffs cannot simply re-file the same complaint a second time.
Ludwig wrote in the latest dismissal of a Trump election challenge:
"This is an extraordinary case. A sitting president who did not prevail in his bid for reelection has asked for federal help in setting aside the popular vote based on disputed issues of election administration, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred. This Court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits.The ruling noted that Biden won by just over 20,600 votes, a similar margin to Trump's 2016 victory in Wisconsin by just over 22,000 votes.
"Moreover, even if 'Manner' were stretched to include plaintiff's implementation objections, plaintiff has not shown a significant departure from the Wisconsin Legislature's chosen election scheme.
"In his reply brief, plaintiff 'asks that the Rule of Law' be followed. It has been."
This latest defeat for the Trump campaign came one day after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general.
Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan blasted Trump and his Republican allies for trying to overturn the election through the Supreme Court in a move which was rejected by the high court Friday night. Democratic Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin also expressed shock at Trump's seemingly blatant attempts at tossing out tens of thousands of votes in the state.
"How can you serve our nation after trying to overturn our democracy? Asking for 126 of my@GOP colleagues," Pocan, of Wisconsin's 2nd Congressional District, tweeted Saturday afternoon.
"It is disgraceful that elected officials have supported Trump's attacks on our democracy and SCOTUS is right to reject the fraudulent claims and false allegations about the integrity of a fair election that Trump lost. Joe Biden won, he is President-elect. #Forward," Baldwin remarked Saturday.
Reader Comments
RC
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held nominally on Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Whatever time frame we are talking about, we were screwed....but judging by some of the comments I see here and elsewhere, many people dont care...amazing...was this country always filled with clueless and ignorant sheep? Dont answer...that was a rhetorical question...
BTW...it is heifer, not heffer...my Mom told me to never trust anyone who ignored their spell checker...
Darts at 3 paces?
RC
BTW...you can have he / she / it....you will make a very cute couple
Anyways...
I wasn't messin around you evil entity you. Goat or "heifer"
BB
btw... what's heifer'r ... a pound of brick or a pound of feather sorry, am over tired and stupidity shows more than usual when.
Don't let him bug you - he's a coarse, redneck loser; I should know.
R.C.
P.s., BBub, do you remember when someone signed up here, commented a time or two, and then, when they saw your user name (which is a quasi spoonerism of Beelzebub ) they were offended and worse! OMG!
I don't recall that they ever commented again. Do you remember that?
RC
83 yer a hoser, eh 🤝
As such, I would say that we were each one of a kind, sui generis , but this is better: tui generis.
RC
Let me know when you crawl in your hole and die...I would be happy to stop by and fill it with dirt
dude, it's a big sand box, eh ? we can all take shots at each other on the ice, but notice how the big dogs never drop their gloves... unless they're pushin' the zamboni.*
* pushing the zamboni... it's a cultural metaphor for teamwork that i'm not sure how to translate into words so here: [Link]
BB, you hoser 😀, pardon my stepping in here to comment
SOTTies are a rare breed too!! here for a reason...whatever it be... yet we see some commenters bash other commenters - maybe taking things personally, i dunno, but i'm thinking why not pick apart the article, or point the +/- 've about the article's content, or provide one's own perspective about an article - that's where we can all grow, and serve one another.
didn't intend this comment to be a verbal semantic diarrhea of obviousness, just say'n, we are all capable of cynicism, i admit i fk up commenting, and feel like an a-hole afterward...e.g. i recently commented something dumb to someone and followed up trying to diffuse the harshness of the comment by adding "rarely do i wake up on the wrong side of the igloo but when i do...", ... i let my ego get in the driver's seat, doh, shit happens, and i learn, and i learn some more lol.
i find it a pleasure reading others enlightened takes, ideas and perceptions... including yours cracker.
it's all good, whether AZ or NM or central Ontario we're all absorbing some light haha !
(☃️...ffs where is that sun !! )
I meant to put a y at the end of lad. Now I can't change it.
two canadian comedians, in the 80's, came up with a skit: bob & doug mckenzie from the great white north...friggen hilarious, but much of the comical aspect was cultural, like smith & smith, the red green show, or sctv's boys in the hall, and if one didn't grow up in canada back then, well, the viewer would have a challenging time appreciating the humour.
hoser: the guy/gal who drags the water hose to flood the backyard hockey rink with water...piece of cake eh ? no. try doing that in your back yard middle of saskatchewan on a -40 january night with that god sucking everlasting wind grit blasting your arse while every breath is adding another 1/16" to the snot popsicle hanging off your nose. WHY would someone do this ?!! cuz it's what you do for your family and buddies... it's all about having fun together...strap on your ccm's, throw on the puck, and skate around crack infested ice laughing like loon-atics all the while; when one starts to lose feeling in one's extremities then everyone goes inside drinks hot chocolate and or beer and then you all go back outside and do it again. it what makes you a CANADIAN, eh, lol.
to recap: a hoser is someone who risks frostbite, drowning in deep snow, death/stroke by shovelling, and makes/floods the rink with water...all for the benefit of the other guys/gals who come over to your house - because they do the same thing for you at their house. that is why when you are playing beer pong or stick the tail on the beaver inside the chalet and someone says something stupidly funny or lets out an overly odouriferous labatt blue ripper - that person would be heckled with "you hoser" while everyone else laughs... it's nothing to do with gender, or whether or not one is hoity-toity, it's a backyard expression of endearment, that gets lost in cultural translation... and has lost it's significance of meaning over the years.
tomorrows discussion will include the infamous roo coo coo coo or wild toque mating call, the term take off, and why the expression "eh" is always placed at the end one's sentence, eh.
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What do you think of my latest inamorata - Smartlad83, supra? RC
I must guess that it occurred after Australia started getting its own vernacular,
hoser,oops, mate! . [Link]RC
Damn I was WAY off. I guess that'll be the last time I ever use Wickidick to look up the meaning of a word. 😬
I appreciate your humor, thank you.
... a dentist might help too.
i dunno. i'm not a fan of the prisoner's dilemma.
(The answer? I dunno, but I'd guess that, more likely than not, it's not a coincidence.)
RC
And also yes, I drew a face on my face. I think it's funny.
Zero offense taken from Bbub. Tolerance is pretty high when it comes to digital duels.
Ya'll rednecks? Cool, cool.
And regarding EO, ignorance was bliss.