Judge orders Trump campaign to produce evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania

[Eugene]

Related DU thread: BREAKING: Federal Judge ORDERS Trump Campaign/RNC to prove "vote by mail fraud"

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Source: CNN

Judge orders Trump campaign to produce evidence of voter fraud in Pennsylvania

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 1902 GMT (0302 HKT) August 13, 2020

(CNN) — A federal judge in Pennsylvania told the Trump campaign and the Republican Party that they must produce evidence they have of vote-by-mail fraud in the state by Friday.

The judge's order, in a high-profile case about vote-by-mail in the battleground state, essentially forces the Trump campaign to try to back up President Donald Trump's false claims about massive voter fraud in postal voting.

"The Court finds that instances of voter fraud are relevant to the claims and defenses in this case," District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan wrote on Thursday, telling Republicans that they need to provide evidence of fraud to the Democratic Party and the Sierra Club, which are part of the lawsuit.

The Democrats had asked for information and documents that would show steps the Republicans took to study the possibility of fraud, especially related to the use of dropboxes, ballot collection and mailed-in ballots in the primary elections.

The Trump campaign and Republicans had refused to do so. But with Thursday's court order, they must answer questions from the Democratic groups and turn over records of communications -- or say they have none. The Trump campaign has until Friday to respond, the judge said.

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Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/13/politics/trump-campaign-voter-fraud-lawsuit-pennsylvania/index.html

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[mysteryowl]

7. TRUMP APPOINTED JUDGE !!!

[SheltieLover]

9. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[OnDoutside]

2. Fantastic ! Well done, Your Honor !!!!

[alwaysinasnit]

3. It's about time the ratf*cking Republicons were told to "put up, or shut up."

[Faux pas]

4. Kickin' with gusto!

[SallyHemmings]

5. They failed to provide evidence during the Voter ID nonsense

[procon]

6. Hah! The lying liars are caught with their pants down.

What a bunch of incompetent blowhards, Trump thought he could run his con game through the courts and get away with deceiving the voters. Now it's put up or shut up time.

[Deacon Blue]

8. Expect an Immediate Appeal, i.e. Foot-Dragging

Federal civil procedure contemplates an interim appeal of pre-trial rulings, including discovery orders. The litigant resisting discovery can ask the trial court to reconsider, or for the appellate court to reverse the trial court, then ask the entire appellate bench to reconsider the three-judge-panel’s decision, ask for that denial to be reconsidered, and then head over to the Supremes. No idea what scheduling orders are in place, but the opportunities for delay are manifest. And this delay strategy is Litigation 101 for the Trump lawyers across the board...

[SheltieLover]

10. Yes, they are really sickening sophists

[Delmette2.0]

11. Provide evidence by Friday.

Is that tomorrow, next week? The article indicates the end of September. That is way to long.

Trump has been talking about this for months and the Post Office is being destroyed. If we have to wait 6 weeks for this we are screwed.

[zentrum]

13. Agree Must be immediate...

…or they will fake the "proof".

[Nitram]

12. Oops. The emperor has no clothes.