Last Friday, Republicans suffered two major legal defeats in Pennsylvania. A trial court dismissed a right-wing lawsuit seeking to purge hundreds of thousands of voters, while the Third Circuit rejected a motion to block a lower court’s decision requiring Pennsylvania to count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots.
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Last Friday, Republicans suffered two major legal defeats in Pennsylvania. A trial court dismissed a right-wing lawsuit seeking to purge hundreds of thousands of voters, while the Third Circuit rejected a motion to block a lower court’s decision requiring Pennsylvania to count undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots.
If Republicans hoped that was a fluke, they were wrong. It was the beginning of a trend that continued this week in courts around the country.
The week began with the Department of Justice announcing it would not appeal a federal court ruling in Washington, D.C., that blocked key parts of President Trump’s executive order on elections. This decision was a significant victory for Democrats who had challenged the order, and a key concession by the administration that Trump’s unconstitutional power grab over federal elections will not succeed.
On Tuesday, a federal judge slammed the door on…
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