GOP officials filed a lawsuit in Arizona and sought to keep their “evidence” secret, but the judge hearing the case rejected their request.
Only 180 votes are at issue. Biden leads by more than 12,000 votes.
An attorney representing President Donald Trump’s reelection team, in a lawsuit alleging poll workers “incorrectly rejected” Election Day votes, asked a Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Tuesday to seal the evidence he says will support that claim.
But attorneys representing the election officials being sued convinced the judge to reject the request after arguing the public “has a right to know how flimsy Plaintiffs’ evidence actually is.”
The Trump campaign filed the lawsuit on Saturday alongside the Republican National Committee and the Arizona Republican Party, claiming Maricopa County poll workers had disregarded procedures designed to give voters a chance to correct ballot mistakes on Election Day.
Though the plaintiffs claim the problem could have left thousands of legitimate votes uncounted, county officials on Monday estimated 180 ballots were at issue.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
That’s the first I have ever heard that the evidence in a lawsuit can be kept a secret so no one knows what it is except the judge and the lawyers filing the suit.
Or is this just more of Trump’s insanity? I’ve read more than once that Trump has a history of being a micromanager on steroids and everything has to be approved by him and even then if he doesn’t like the decisions he made, he’ll blame the people that had to get his approval to do it and Trump will refuse to pay them what he agreed to.
It’s very typical in commercial litigation. Way too typical.
Actually, what is even more typical is that only the most unethical lawyers take on frivolous lawsuits.
And as you know, these lawsuits are frivolous by any measure.
Everybody knows 180 is larger than 12000 . No?
Joel, I think if tRump wrote an executive order stating as such that his followers would believe180 is larger than 12000.
Worse they all believe it.
Nobody knows math like Donald Trump!
Must be that “New Math” thing that was going around years ago that nobody could explain.
Nobody knows as much as Trump about anything
Nobody knows as much as Trump about nothing.
I would not be just a nothin’,
my head all full of stuffin’
and neediness and pain.
I wouldn’t be insane, erratic.,
I might be quite Democratic,
if I only had a brain.
Zero means nothing.
So 180 is actually greater than 12000
Any other questions?
When Trump won Michigan in 2016 by fewer than 11,000 votes, the overriding narrative was that there was no reason to do a recount.
Now we have a situation in states where the democrat is winning by significantly higher vote counts, and I am still waiting for the media to completely marginalize those who refuse to recognize the results of an election and are desperately trying to steal it for Trump.
We are in perilous times when those who are actually spewing lies are given any legitimacy.
The only people that will benefit from all these lawsuits Trump and Republican Party are pushing are the attorneys. They are laughing all the way to the bank.
On Trump’s Election Fraud Lawsuits:
That Boat Won’t Float
Glub, glub, glub
five men in a tub,
set to sail
in a leaky pail,
Barr and Donnie,
rude Ghouliani,
Mitch and Pompeo
sailed away, O!
Had their pail been stronger,
my verse would be longer.
Might be worth mentioning that Biden’s choice of chief of staff is the least objectionable of the three top candidates (the other two were far more typical of the corporate dems).
That’s not to say that Ron Klain is a progressive – he isn’t. But he seems acceptable to progressive groups in a way that the other two top candidates were not. And that is a good thing.
I can understand a recount, but some Trumpers want a reVote. If there was an election where fraud could be charged it was Gore vs Bush. Although Bush won, I always considered Gore the winner, but I had to swallow my disappointment and accept Bush as our new President.
Too many Republicans want it both ways – Tails I win, Heads you lose.
0 out of 13 election fraud legal case record
“We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning.”
–Sore Loser and 74-year-old Toddler Donald J. Trump
Are there any flounders in Arizona?
The entire state of Arizona is a flounder
The Arizona Flounder
Is native to the Sea
Of Cortez, down there under
And jumped on land, you see
It’s interesting how ineffective Trump and his team are in coming up with schemes to postpone the inevitable. Imagine, you have nothing else to do but come up with schemes while playing golf. Wouldn’t you have much more workable ideas than threaten with lawsuits in front of a run-down garage door?
Will the fascists on the Trump Democracy Wrecking Crew succeed in getting states to choose faithless Trumpy electors? that seems to be what they are counting on now that their frivolous fraud lawsuits have failed.
Surely such a move on the part of state legislators would not hold up in courts, for while the Constitution does allow for faithless electors and places much power to determine election law with the states, the states, by precedent and in some cases by law, long ago made their determinations about how electors are decided–they are to reflect the will of the people. A decision anywhere, to the contrary, would fly in the face of that bedrock principle of our representative democracy–that everyone’s vote matters.
Any court that would renounce that principle has renounced principles altogether and decided in favor of rule by raw, unchecked power. A rejection of that principle is a rejection of the principle of having principles, including, for example, the principle that people have a write to trial before impartial courts or that the Constitution and other laws and precedents matter. Such a decision by the Supreme Court would mean, “F-it. Anything goes from here on out.”