Washington DC.,<\/p>\n
\u201cFree, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so,\u201d wrote Stephanos Bibas on behalf of a three-judge panel.<\/p>\n
The Trump campaign and its supporters have tried and failed to convince judges of election irregularities in Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada, all critical to Biden\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n
\u201cVoters, not lawyers, choose the President. Ballots, not briefs, decide elections,\u201d said the appeals court opinion.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn to SCOTUS!\u201d wrote Jenna Ellis, a Trump campaign attorney, on Twitter after the ruling, referring to a planned appeal to the US Supreme Court. \u201cThe activist judicial machinery in Pennsylvania continues to cover up the allegations of massive fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania certified Biden, who won the state by 80,000 votes, as its winner this week. Under Pennsylvania law, the candidate who wins the popular vote in the state gets all of the state\u2019s 20 electoral votes.<\/p>\n
Trump, a Republican, has refused to concede to his Democratic rival and continues to claim, without evidence, widespread voter fraud.<\/p>\n
But as his legal challenges to the results fail, Trump said on Thursday he will leave the White House if the Electoral College votes for Biden when it meets on Dec. 14, the closest he has come to conceding the election.<\/p>\n
Biden won the election 306-232 in electoral votes, including Pennsylvania\u2019s 20. Even if Trump overturned the outcome in Pennsylvania, he would still need to reverse the result in at least two other states to remain as president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington DC., \u201cFree, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so,\u201d wrote Stephanos Bibas on behalf of a three-judge panel. \u201cCharges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,\u201d wrote Bibas, who was nominated by Trump. The Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17931,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions\/17931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}