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Punish his attorneys. There’s ample precedent for it.
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By KIMBERLY WEHLE
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Kimberly Wehle is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
The dozens of postelection lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign and his Republican supporters are hard to keep track of, but the scorecard is as clear as it is grim for the president’s side: one modest victory versus 55 losses and counting.
The defeats are piling up so fast the Supreme Court summarily rejected two lawsuits inside of four days and the judges’ rebukes have been so withering that many people outside the legal profession wonder why trained lawyers are being allowed to persist in this doomed effort to overturn the results of an election that has been described by the president’s own elections officials as the “most secure in American history.”
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