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December 21, 2020
Full statement here: “Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., President Trump’s campaign committee, today filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the US. Supreme Court to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases which illegally changed Pennsylvania’s mail balloting law immediately before and after the 2020 presidential election in violation of Article II of the United States Constitution and Bush v. Gore. This represents the Campaign’s first independent U.S. Supreme Co...
December 21, 2020
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wasn’t the first person in the Senate last week to formally recognize President-elect Joe Biden as the 46th chief executive of the United States. That duty fell to Senate Chaplain Barry Black during his prayer, opening the Senate session for the day. "Lord, we respect the conclusions of the Electoral College and ask you to bless President-elect Joseph Biden and Vice P...
December 20, 2020
Rep. Matt Gaetz Says He Will Challenge Electoral College Votes on Jan. 6 Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said on Dec. 19 that he plans to challenge electoral votes when they are counted during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6. “On January 6, I’m joining with the fighters in the Congress, and we are going to object to electors from states that didn’t run clean elections,” Gaetz told a crowd during the first day of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, held in West Palm Beach, Flori...
December 18, 2020
consolidation and expedited consideration of two related filings, submitted December 11, 2020, that concern the November 3, 2020, presidential election. These filings have direct implications for the outcome of the election nationwide. The first of the filings concerns the presidential election conducted in the State of Michigan and was assigned Docket Number 20-815 (the “Michigan Petition”). The Michigan Petition seeks emergency declaratory relief avowing that the presidential election res...
December 18, 2020
consolidation and expedited consideration of two related filings, submitted December 11, 2020, that concern the November 3, 2020, presidential election. These filings have direct implications for the outcome of the election nationwide. The first of the filings concerns the presidential election conducted in the State of Michigan and was assigned Docket Number 20-815 (the “Michigan Petition”). The Michigan Petition seeks emergency declaratory relief avowing that the presidential election res...
December 18, 2020
‘Extensive Fraud’ in Election: Trump Attorney This year’s election is unusual in a number of ways. But one of them—dueling electors—actually has precedent in U.S. history. And it could indicate how things might play out. There are dueling slates of electors in 7 states where electoral votes are officially for Biden. One of Trump’s attorneys says there is a historical precedent for the Trump electors in those states to have their votes counted when Congress selects the president. The...
December 17, 2020
Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives have again called for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari. The leader of the PDP Caucus in the House, Mr Kingsley Chinda, made the call on behalf of the lawmakers on Thursday at a press conference in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He decried the disturbing rate of insecurity in the country, noting the recent abduction of over 300 schoolboys in Kankara, a community in Katsina State, and the killing of over...
December 17, 2020
Group of House GOP Lawmakers Call for ‘Immediate’ Hearings on Election Fraud Around 20 House GOP members are asking the leaders of Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to provide hearings on election fraud ahead of the Joint Session of Congress in January when members read the Electoral College votes. “Under the Constitution and federal statutes, Congress is responsible for resolving all federal election contests for...
December 17, 2020
Courts Haven’t Decided Facts on Voter Fraud, Found Excuses to Dismiss Trump’s Cases: Rand Paul Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) rejected the notion that courts have “decided the facts” amid allegations of election fraud during the Nov. 3 election. “The courts have not decided the facts,” Paul said during an election integrity hearing on Wednesday. “The courts never looked at the facts. The courts don’t like elections, and they stayed out of it by finding an excuse.” The Kentucky senator...
December 16, 2020
Trump to Mitch McConnell: ‘Too Soon to Give Up’ on Election Fight President Donald Trump on Wednesday told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that it’s too early to stop fighting to overturn the election after the longtime Kentucky senator congratulated Joe Biden following the Electoral College vote. “Mitch, 75,000,000 VOTES, a record for a sitting President (by a lot),” Trump wrote to McConnell, underscoring the amount of support he has from Americans. It’s “too soon ...