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Respond to MORE LEGAL tRUMP LOSSES: REPUBLICAN Georgia and Arizona Courts Block Efforts To Delay Certifying Election Results forbes.com dismissed a suit by the state’s Republican Party seeking an audit of ballots in Maricopa County, and denied the GOP’s request to delay the certification of the county’s election results.order that the Arizona Secretary of State, who intervened in favor of the county, can seek attorney’s fees from the GOP plaintiffs under an Arizona law that allows doing so in cases brought “without substantial justification” or “solely or primarily for delay or harassment.”who was appointed by President Donald Trump — dismissed a lawsuit brought by a voter in Fulton County, Georgia, who wanted the court to block Georgia from certifying its election results and claimed the vote tallies are “suspect and tainted with impropriety.”said when announcing it that the lawsuit “does not have merit” and was brought too late.told the court he was retained by the campaign.rejected the campaign’s effort to throw out 2,177 mail-in ballots due to minor deficiencies. The campaign also withdrew an attempt to appeal a ruling upholding mail-in ballots in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, but a court did side with GOP plaintiffs who challenged 2,349 ballots in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located.Multiple reports suggest that rather than use the courts to directly overturn the election—which would not be possible, based on the current litigation—the campaign is focused on delaying or blocking battleground states from certifying their election results, which would then give GOP state legislators a possible opening to overturn the will of the voters and appoint their own electors. That strategy has begun to take shape in recent days: the campaign filed an amended legal complaint in Pennsylvania arguing the court should “[provide] for the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose Pennsylvania’s electors,” and Trump is reportedly inviting Michigan state lawmakers to the White House after personally calling Republican election officials who attempted to block Michigan’s Wayne County from certifying its results. Experts have broadly denounced Trump’s efforts as likely to fail, however, and several state legislators who would have to participate in any attempts to undermine their state’s voters have said they do not intend to do so.certified by Monday and Friday, respectively. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested during a press conference Thursday that the campaign may still attempt to bring further lawsuits in those states, however, and the campaign suggested in a court filing Thursday that it may continue its attempts to have federal courts decertify states’ electors up until the Electoral College meets on Dec. 14.
