Like the Supreme Court, federal judges read the election returns:
A federal judge who ordered Michigan to begin its recount effectively ended it on Wednesday, tying his decision to a state court ruling that found Green Party candidate Jill Stein had no legal standing to request another look at ballots. The ruling seals Republican Donald Trump’s narrow victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton for Michigan’s 16 electoral votes.
U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith agreed with Republicans who argued that the three-day recount must end a day after the state appeals court dealt a blow to the effort. The court said Stein, who finished fourth in Michigan on Nov. 8, didn’t have a chance of winning even after a recount and therefore isn’t an “aggrieved” candidate.
“Because there is no basis for this court to ignore the Michigan court’s ruling and make an independent judgment regarding what the Michigan Legislature intended by the term ‘aggrieved,’ plaintiffs have not shown an entitlement to a recount,” Goldsmith said.
What a farce — Stein never had the slightest legal standing to contest the Michigan election, and her bleat that she was testing the integrity of the voting system should have been laughed out of court at the start. But no, standing in as a surrogate for the defeated Dowager Empress of Chappaqua, she feigned a high moral purpose while schnorring for $7 million or so… suckers!
A court hearing will be held Friday on a possible recount in Pennsylvania. Wisconsin’s recount, which started last week, has increased Trump’s margin of victory over Clinton thus far.
Clinton needed all three states to flip in order to take enough electoral votes to win the election. Trump has 306 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232; 270 are needed to win. Michigan has 16 electoral votes, Pennsylvania has 20 and Wisconsin has 10. Electors convene Dec. 19 across the country to vote for president.
A nation rid at last of the Clintons, their crooked sense of entitlement and their grubby Clinton Foundation is a happy, peaceful and contented country. Let’s hope this is the last we see of the Duke and the Dauphin of contemporary America… until the ongoing investigations into the email scandal and the Foundation, free of Loretta Lynch with her thumb on the scale of Justice, at last bear fruit, and once again the cry of “Lock Her Up!” is heard in the land.
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