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Judge Throws Out Trump Campaign's Pennsylvania Lawsuit

Associated Press

   HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA - A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Saturday
   threw out a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's campaign,
   dismissing its challenges to the battleground state's poll-watching law
   and its efforts to limit how mail-in ballots can be collected and which
   of them can be counted.

   The ruling by U.S. District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan -- who was
   appointed by Trump -- in Pittsburgh also poured cold water on Trump's
   election fraud claims.

   Trump's campaign said it would appeal at least one element of the
   decision, with barely three weeks to go until Election Day in a state
   hotly contested by Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

   The lawsuit was opposed by the administration of Gov. Tom Wolf, a
   Democrat, the state Democratic Party, the League of Women Voters, the
   NAACP's Pennsylvania office and other allied groups.

   "The ruling is a complete rejection of the continued misinformation
   about voter fraud and corruption, and those who seek to sow chaos and
   discord ahead of the upcoming election," Wolf's office said in a
   statement.

   The state's attorney general, Josh Shapiro, a Democrat whose office
   fought the Trump campaign's claims, called the lawsuit a political
   stunt designed to sow doubt in the state's election.

   No proof

   "We told the Trump campaign and the president, 'Put up or shut up,' to
   his claims of voter fraud in Pennsylvania," Shapiro told The Associated
   Press. "It's important to note they didn't even need to prove actual
   voter fraud, just that it was likely or impending, and they couldn't
   even do that."

   Trump's campaign said in a statement that it looked forward to a quick
   decision from the appeals court "that will further protect Pennsylvania
   voters from the Democrats' radical voting system."

   The lawsuit is one of many partisan battles being fought in the state
   Legislature and the courts, primarily over mail-in voting in
   Pennsylvania, amid concerns that a presidential election result will
   hang in limbo for days on a drawn-out vote count.

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