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2020 Presidential Election Tag

A lot of people read a lot into Justice Samuel Alito setting December 9, 2020, as the date for Pennsylvania and its officials to respond to the Emergency Application for Injunctive Relief filed by people challenging the Pennsylvania certification. The argument was that Alito was going to let the application die on the vine, so to speak, by putting the response date the day after the federal "safe harbor" date for certifying elections, December 8.

I have received numerous requests to explain where I think things stand now in the post-election legal battles.

On December 3, 2012, Judge James T. Russell of the Nevada First Judicial District Court heard arguments on the motion to dismiss the challenge to the election results brought by Trump electors, Law v. Whitmer.

President Donald Trump's campaign filed a lawsuit (pdf) against the Wisconsin Elections Commission and others, accusing them of "unlawful and unconstitutional acts" during the recount of the 2020 presidential election. They filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Division.

Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center American Progress (CAP), has a tough road to confirmation as Joe Biden's budget director. Tanden deleted tweets between November 16 and today due to harsh criticism of Republican senators, which she will need for confirmation.

Confounding Democrats across America, President Trump made big gains in the Latino community on Election Day in states like Florida and Texas, vastly improving his 2016 performance with them.