Generally, the court does not get involved in state court decisions on state law. Supreme Court has twice declined to take up challenges to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decisions regarding the state's voting procedures. On Sunday, the Trump campaign said it was filing a suit with the Supreme Court over Pennsylvania's mail-in voting rules. Homeland security officials say they have no authority to do so. 'The fact that she's in there, it's totally nuts,' a senior campaign official said.Īt the meeting, Trump suggested the Homeland Security officials should seize state voting machines and investigate alleged fraud. Trump also suggested naming Sidney Powell, Flynn's lawyer who has promoted outlandishly false claims about the election, as a special counsel on voter fraud. White House officials said Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House counsel Pat Cipollone pushed back 'strenuously' on the idea of martial law, and the idea was quickly dismissed at the meeting. 'He could order the, within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities, and he could place those in states and basically rerun an election in each of those states,' Flynn said. Bloombergįlynn had suggested on Newsmax that Trump could authorise the military to rerun the election. He is increasingly reaching out to allies including his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, whom he met with on Friday.ĭonald Trump is still discussing strategies to overturn the election result with close aides. Trump's conversation with Tuberville is part of a much broader effort by the defeated president to invalidate the election. 'He said, 'You made me the most popular politician in the United States.' He said, 'I can't believe it.' He's great.

'He's so excited,' Trump said of Tuberville. Trump said in a radio interview on Sunday (Monday AEDT) that he had spoken with Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville about challenging the electoral vote count when the House and Senate convene on January 6 to formally affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Donald Trump has intensified efforts to overturn the election, raising the idea of radical measures in recent days, including military intervention, seizing voting machines and a 13th-hour appeal to the Supreme Court.

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