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    As Biden lead grows, Trump campaign switches fight to courts

    Nov 05, 2020 5 minutes
    Voters protest outside the Bucks County Government Administration Building in Doylestown, rallying for all ballots to be counted in Pennsylvania.

    As Joe Biden continues to pick up ground in battleground states such as Nevada and Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump and his allies are moving to a new venue in an effort to hold onto the White House: the courts.

    In Pennsylvania and other key states, the Trump campaign has filed lawsuits alleging a variety of ballot-related infractions. Trump officials have intervened at the Supreme Court in a case that challenges Pennsylvania’s intention to count ballots received up to three days after Election Day. The president’s team has vowed to seek a recount in Wisconsin and raised vague charges of improper voting in Nevada.

    The Trump administration promised more challenges as the election is “clearly moving from the political to the legal,” says legal commentator and George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley.

    Attempting to tie up electoral results in courts across the country may offer little legal respite for the president’s

    Trump campaign legal blitzCounting the vote in Bucks CountyWill the Supreme Court step in?

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