- The Supreme Court has rejected two lawsuits filed by Trump ally Sidney Powell.
- This magnifies the extraordinary loss of litigation that seeks to overturn the 2020 election results.
- President Joe Biden was inaugurated more than a month ago.
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The Supreme Court on Monday formally rejected two of Sidney Powell’s lawsuits to thwart the outcome of the 2020 U.S. election, thus dispelling any lingering ideas of declaring Donald Trump the winner.
As first reported by Law and Crime, the court did not comment during the dismissal of the two lawsuits. One case tried to reverse the results in Arizona, and the other in Wisconsin.
Joe Biden, the winner of the presidential election, was inaugurated on January 20th.
It was widely expected that the case – based on a bizarre conspiracy theory that election technology companies along with the regime of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez would secretly fail from Trump to Biden – would fail. The Supreme Court has rejected several other lawsuits to block the outcome of the election.
The rejections also magnify the astonishing losing streak of Trump and his allies challenging the election results. Out of more than 40 lawsuits filed, it eventually failed.
Powell’s other two lawsuits, in Georgia and Michigan, also lost several rounds in court. The Supreme Court had earlier said it would not hear the case in Michigan, and Powell withdrew the case in Georgia. Biden has won all the states where Powell has contested election results.
Powell’s lawsuits and conspiracy theories have opened up the possibility of devastating consequences for her.
One election technology company she falsely claimed was part of a conspiracy to falsify election results, Smartmatic filed a defamation lawsuit against her, Fox News and Rudy Giuliani, claiming $ 2.7 billion in damages. Another, Dominion Voting Systems, has filed a $ 1.3 billion defamation suit against her. The companies have also filed other lawsuits and sent legal notices to people and companies accusing them of parroting her claims or platform.
She and the lawyers she worked with to file lawsuits in Michigan are also facing sanctions and could lose their legal licenses.
Trump’s lie that he was the real winner of the 2020 election led to an uprising at the US Capitol on January 6, for which he becomes the first president to be accused a second time. The Senate acquitted him on February 13 with 57 senators voting to convict him.
In his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday – his first major public speech since the uprising – he again lied that he was the real election winner.