TRUMP: Questioning lawsuits

Matthew Seligman, who is currently teaching a class at Harvard Law on disputed presidential elections, had questions about the basis of Trump’s suits, and their likely impact.

“Most of President Trump’s lawsuits don’t even allege that votes were incorrectly or unlawfully counted, instead challenging procedural minutiae like how many feet away observers could stand from the counting tables. Those few lawsuits that do make legal claims that could change vote totals also won’t ultimately change the results, because even if they win in court (which is doubtful) they would affect far too few ballots to close the current vote margins. Neither the president nor anyone else has put forward a scintilla of evidence of tens of thousands of unlawfully cast or counted ballots.”

I couldn’t have said it better.

KIM WANECKE

Coeur d’Alene