Trump must concede as a holiday gift to the nation
By Douglas MacKinnon, opinion contributor — 12/19/20 12:00 PM EST
Enough is more than enough. On Monday, the Electoral College met to certify the 2020 presidential election win for President-elect Biden.
Prior to that, not only was Team Trump 0-2 with the U.S. Supreme Court regarding its election challenges, but it got demonstrably slapped down both times. First, the high court denied a request to stop the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results based on a challenge to a 2019 state law to expand mail-in voting.
It did so with a terse, one-sentence rejection in its Dec. 8 order in Kelly v. Pennsylvania: “The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.â€
Second, the Supreme Court — including the three justices appointed by President Trump — declined to hear Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, in which he argued that changes to those states’ election procedures because of the COVID-19 pandemic violated federal law.
Not once, but three times in just over a week, “Boom!†went the election-rejection dynamite in response to the Trump legal challenges. Except, it appears some of the president’s loyalists can’t hear the reverberations of those critical pronouncements, or simply have chosen to ignore them.
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