"This court should enter an order, declaration, and/or injunction that the results of the 2020 presidential general election are defective and providing for the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose Pennsylvania's electors," the campaign wrote in its second amended complaint (pdf). The draft complaint was attached to a motion requesting the court to afford the campaign an opportunity to amend their claims in the case.They will also file a major lawsuit in Georgia.
The lawsuit is seeking to block the state from certifying its election results, or to block the certification of results that include mail-in ballots that did not meet statutory requirements, were cured without authorization, or were cast in violation of the law. The campaign's suggestion to allow the state legislature to decide electors was proposed as an alternative to the invalidation of votes.
The campaign argued that it believes "statistical analysis" will find that "over 70,000 mail and other mail ballots which favor" Democratic nominee Joe Biden "were improperly counted" and "sufficient to turn the election."
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani asked the judge during a court hearing on Tuesday whether the campaign could file a new complaint because it had erroneously removed their due process claim during one of their revisions of the complaint.
The Trump campaign also reinstated its claims that the due process, equal protection, and the elections and electors clauses were violated when campaign poll watchers were denied access to "meaningfully" observe the ballot-counting process. These claims were also removed in their amended complaint.
It also alleged that Democrats that controlled the county election boards, named in the lawsuit, engaged in a "deliberate scheme of intentional and purposeful discrimination to favor Biden over Trump." The election officials, the campaign claims, excluded Republican and Trump campaign poll observers from watching the counting of mail-in ballots to hide their decision to count ballots that should have been disqualified because of irregularities.
During the Tuesday hearing, Giuliani argued that "widespread nationwide voter fraud" claims weren't isolated and had been argued in courts in "at least 10 other jurisdictions," in a bid to keep the lawsuit alive.
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The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that it will be going ahead with President Donald Trump's order to cut down troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving 2,500 troops in each country by January 15. The news did not sit down well with the NATO secretary general.The Taliban, deeming it a positive step, are enthusiastic!
"We went into Afghanistan together," Stoltenberg said, adding that the allied forces should "leave together in a coordinated and orderly way," but only "when the time is right." He added that he counts "on all NATO allies to live up to this commitment, for our own security."
Stoltenberg hinted that the Alliance has plans to stay in Afghanistan through 2024, to train, advise and assist local security forces.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamist fundamentalist group, told AFP news agency on Wednesday, that the troop withdrawal is in the best interest of people in both Afghanistan and the US. He added that pulling US forces out will avert further war.
Comment: Whether or not it will change anything, a little more civilian oversight is a good idea. Many online are wondering if there is more to this move: