a beautiful end to the third circuit docket sheet -- the Trump campaign will have to pay Pennsylvania's costs for the appeal
Here's a copy of the Third Circuit opinion. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BE01ox7Y2hXPvf_GNfuugk5Zu-wIH9Sc/view?usp=sharing
"We commend the District Court for its fast, fair, patient handling of this demanding litigation," writes Circuit Judge Bibas, a Trump appointee.
"The Second Amended Complaint does not meet Twombly and Iqbal’s baseline standard of specifics.
To start, note what it does not allege: fraud."
To start, note what it does not allege: fraud."
"Bush v. Gore does not federalize every jot and tittle of state election law."
Also worth quoting how the panel distinguishes Marks v. Stinson--the 1994 circuit case that the Trump campaign seemed to cite in every other sentence of its pleadings--from the present circumstances.
One of many indications throughout the opinion of the abysmal legal services the Trump campaign received. The case never should've been brought, of course, due to the lack of evidence, but this reflects an even more basic failure of blocking and tackling.