US President Donald Trump has summoned his lawyer to rescue his boat, which is in danger of sinking, but legal experts said the series of lawsuits had little chance to change the election result, although it might cast doubt on the process.
As Trump's chances of winning shrink, his legal appeals campaign ramped up on Thursday and said it plans to take its most recent case in Nevada.
On Wednesday, the campaign filed cases in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia, requesting to join a case before the US Supreme Court.
Experts believe that the litigation will prolong the vote count and delay the announcement in the mainstream media that Democratic candidate Joe Biden has won.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professor Robert Yablon said, "The current legal maneuver is essentially a tactic used by the Trump campaign to try to prolong the game in the very weak hope that serious violations will arise," adding that at this point, there is no indication of wrongdoing. Methodology for counting votes.
Experts said the lawsuits and allegations of fraud may be aimed at easing the pain of leaving the White House by questioning the integrity of the process.
Useless lawsuits
In a statement on Wednesday, Trump's campaign manager Bill Stephen said the lawsuits were aimed at ensuring that the correct votes were counted in the rule of law.
Bob Bauer, a member of Biden's legal team, said there was no point in the lawsuits.
It aims to give the Trump campaign a chance to demand a halt to the vote count, "and the vote counting will not stop."
The bottom line, experts assert, is that for litigation to have an effect, the race must be suspended on the outcome of one or two states by a difference of a few thousand votes.
The Trump campaign lost the lawsuit in Michigan on Thursday, but a Pennsylvania court ordered that Trump campaign observers be allowed to attend the vote count in Philadelphia.
In Georgia, the Trump campaign asked a judge to order Chatham County separate late-arrival ballots to ensure they were not counted, but the court on Thursday refused to accept the lawsuit.
Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said there was no consistent strategy, adding that the campaign was trying to muddy the situation by throwing the allegations haphazardly.
Limited cards
Edward Foley, an election law specialist at Moritz Law School, said the cases may have merit, but they affect only a limited number of ballots and procedural issues.
Trump's campaign continues to contest late-mail ballots in Pennsylvania, which the media so far estimate in the hundreds, numbers too small to have a tangible effect, and moreover, Biden appears to be able to win the presidential race even if he loses the state. .
Joshua Giltzer, professor at the Institute for Defense and Constitutional Protection at Georgetown University, concludes by saying that this litigation is like an attempt to allow Trump an opportunity to continue his rhetorical efforts to delegitimize the elections he lost.