Two Georgia counties have filed lawsuits this week against former President Donald Trump in his capacity as a candidate, seeking legal fees over failed attempts to overturn the election through voter fraud allegations and vote recounts.
Trump’s 2020 campaign filed more than 50 lawsuits challenging election results across the United States, demanding recounts while alleging various unfounded claims about widespread voter fraud.
Authorities in Cobb County and DeKalb county, near state capital Atlanta, both filed motions in Georgia courts on Monday, Court News reports. DeKalb County called for $6,105 in compensation and Cobb County asked for $10,875.
The Cobb County motion states that the Trump campaign “apparently believed that they could file their baseless and legally deficient actions with impunity, with no regard for the costs extracted from the taxpayers’ coffers or the consequences to the democratic foundations of our country”.
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Impeachment is over, but other efforts to reckon with Trump s post-election chaos have just begun
Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post
Feb. 21, 2021
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WASHINGTON - The state of Michigan and the city of Detroit have asked a federal judge to sanction attorneys who filed lawsuits that falsely alleged the November vote was fraudulent, the first of several similar efforts expected across the country.
An Atlanta-area prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into whether pressure that then-President Donald Trump and his allies put on state officials amounted to an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the presidential election.
And defamation lawsuits have been filed against Trump s allies - the start of what could be a flood of civil litigation related to false claims that the election was rigged and to the subsequent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
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With the presidency now behind him, Donald Trump is facing a growing number of lawsuits and investigations related to his past behavior most recently, the U.S. Capitol attack in January.
Rep. Bennie Thompson and the NAACP in February sued Trump, 74, for allegedly conspiring with extremist groups ahead of the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, just days after the former president was again acquitted in his unprecedented second impeachment trial. Get push notifications with news, features and more. + Follow
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