Judges Deal Blows to Pro-Trump Lawsuits in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania
A federal judge denied Sidney Powell’s so-called Kraken suit hearing in Wisconsin as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied a Trump appeal.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Courts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin slapped down flailing GOP challenges to President-elect Joe Biden’s win in each state on Tuesday. Judge Pamela Pepper, a federal jurist in the Badger State, declined to grant an evidentiary hearing to Trump-linked lawyer Sidney Powell’s conspiracy-minded “Kraken” case—leaving the suit’s future in question.
NEW: The federal judge in Wisconsin Kraken case, Pamela Pepper, begins the session by saying she's going to deny the plaintiffs' demand for an evidentiary hearing. She seems doubtful about allowing the case to move forward.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 8, 2020
Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected an effort by lame-duck President Trump’s campaign to appeal a lower court ruling on a small batch of mail-in ballots from the Philadelphia suburbs. Previous GOP losses before the Keystone State’s highest bench had whittled the number of postal votes in dispute in Bucks County down to just 69. Unlike Powell, the campaign made no claims of fraud, but simply asserted the envelopes on the absentees lacked required information.
Biden carried Pennsylvania by some 81,000 votes and Wisconsin by more than 20,000.
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