“Rich Bernstein: Trump Had 2020 Court Challenges Rejected ‘On the Merits'”

At Society for the Rule of Law:

At Tuesday’s debate, Donald Trump stated that his side lost the court cases brought to overturn the 2020 election results solely on the technicality of standing: “They said we didn’t have standing. A technicality. Can you imagine a system where a person in an election doesn’t have standing, the President of the United States doesn’t have standing? That’s how we lost.”

Mr. Trump has been repeating this assertion since at least Dec. 12, 2020 when he tweeted, “We’ve not gotten any court to judge this (the vote) on its merit” and “Never even given our day in Court!” He was wrong then and he’s wrong now.

The most definitive account of the more than 60 cases lost by Mr. Trump, his campaign, his electors, and his supporters challenging the 2020 election results was prepared by John Danforth, et al: “Lost, Not Stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election” (see pages 3-5, 14-15, 33-35, 44-46, 51-52, 59-63, 68-69). The study goes through every case and shows that many decisions rejected claims as wrong on the merits, and not merely because of standing….

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