On Tuesday, the Nevada Supreme Court issued a unanimous rejection of a Trump campaign appeal in which the president’s legal team was seeking to set aside the presidential election results in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden won. In their lawsuit, the Trump campaign claimed that “more than 61,000 people voted twice or from out of state,” The Washington Post explains, but there’s simply no legitimate evidence for the campaign’s claims of systematic fraud in the actual circumstances of the election. Out-of-state voters in the Nevada election included members of the military and their spouses, who are specifically permitted to maintain Nevada voter registrations under state law, even if transferred elsewhere.
🚨🚨BREAKING: The Nevada Supreme Court 6-0 AFFIRMS lower court decision DISMISSING Trump Election Contest.
Nevada is DONE.🥳
Trump and his allies are 1-51 in post election litigation.https://t.co/4Owwf6Rl92
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) December 9, 2020
The Nevada Supreme Court ruling was 6-0, with one justice, Elissa Cadish, voluntarily stepping back from the case because of her personal connections to a number of the Biden-backing members of the electoral college from Nevada. The state Supreme Court ruling emerged shortly after Nevada District Court Judge James T. Russell ruled decisively against the Trump campaign’s efforts in the same case, concluding that the campaign’s allegations of widespread fraud were simply not grounded in fact. The Supreme Court in the state concluded similarly, writing that the campaign had failed to describe “any unsupported factual findings” in Russell’s original decision. In other words, the campaign failed to disprove any of Judge Russell’s fundamental characterizations of their case, leaving his previous “factual findings” firmly in place.
The Nevada Supreme Court wrote, in part, as follows:
‘To prevail on this appeal, appellants must demonstrate error of law, findings of fact not supported by substantial evidence or an abuse of discretion in the admission or rejection of evidence by the district court. We are not convinced they have done so.’
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request for a temporary injunction in a case that Pennsylvania Republicans brought against the election results in their state, where President-elect Biden also won. On the same day, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, announced a lawsuit in which he’d attempt to invalidate the election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, all of which he alleged unconstitutionally expanded mail-in voting ahead of the general election. On Twitter, Trump described Texas’s case as the “case that everyone has been waiting for,” which is just laughable. Trump and his allies have lost case after case after case — and now observers are supposed to believe that they’ve suddenly come up with conclusive evidence for the imaginary fraud?
This was not my case as has been so incorrectly reported. The case that everyone has been waiting for is the State’s case with Texas and numerous others joining. It is very strong, ALL CRITERIA MET. How can you have a presidency when a vast majority think the election was RIGGED? https://t.co/ZKu9sNVz2U
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2020
