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Former Trump associate Sidney Powell has also been doing her rounds of the courts again, appearing to try and set some world record for losing the most court cases about a single election. Kelsey Blamis at Business Insider reports that her ‘kraken’ lawsuits have now failed in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
Federal judges in Arizona and Wisconsin on Wednesday dismissed two sweeping lawsuits filed by the pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, which aimed to overturn the election results in both states.
Powell’s lawsuits, which she has referred to as releasing the “kraken,” make the unsubstantiated claim that voting machines switched votes from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
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As the country reels from the record Covid death toll, in an unprecedented assault on the US democratic system, the Trump legal team is still attempting to overturn the result of November’s election. The focus today will be on the courts in Wisconsin, which have already dismissed previous attempts by Republicans to deny president-elect Joe Biden his win in the battleground state.
“The relief being sought by the petitioners is the most dramatic invocation of judicial power I have ever seen,” Justice Brian Hagedorn wrote in an earlier judgement denying a Wisconsin Voters Alliance case. “This is a dangerous path we are being asked to tread. The loss of public trust in our constitutional order resulting from the exercise of this kind of judicial power would be incalculable.”
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