After rejecting Texas' attempt to annul the election results
Trump: The Supreme Court failed us ... and the elections are rigged
Trump has confirmed that he will continue the fight.
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Trump supporters are outside the Supreme Court, and one of them holds up a banner alleging "election theft."
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The outgoing US President Donald Trump, in a tweet on the social networking site “Twitter,” attacked the US Supreme Court’s decision to reject a lawsuit from Texas seeking to nullify President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory. Trump said in response to the judges ’decision:“ The Supreme Court has really failed us. .
Neither wisdom nor courage.
The elections are rigged.
We will continue the battle ».
The court's rejection of Texas' lawsuit seeking to nullify Biden's victory was a fresh defeat for Trump's attempts to turn his election loss into a victory.
The court affirmed that it dropped the lawsuit due to the lack of legal capacity, saying that "Texas did not show a legally recognized interest in trying to cancel the results in other states."
Texas election law experts deemed the bid far fetched, and the lawsuit alleges widespread fraud in the election, and sought to nullify vote counting in four swing states won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden - Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The lawsuit, filed by Texas State Attorney Ken Paxton, has garnered widespread support among Trump and his allies, who continue to claim the election was stolen despite the lack of evidence of this.
For his part, the President of the Republican Party in Texas, Allen West, said that the Supreme Court decision may lead to the disintegration of the United States.
"This decision will have far-fetched repercussions for the future of our constitutional republic," West added.
Perhaps the states that respect the law should bond together and form a federation of states that will abide by the constitution ”.
While the top voters are expected to meet tomorrow to confirm their votes, Biden's campaign said that the firm and swift rejection of this lawsuit by the court was not a surprise, denouncing "unfounded attempts by Trump's camp to attack the democratic process."
For his part, Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said that the lawsuit was "solid."
He told "Fox News": "They cannot refuse her with such simplicity." And White House spokeswoman Kylie McKinani considered that the Supreme Court "disavowed its responsibilities to hide behind the proceedings," according to her description.
The recent judicial defeat of the Trump camp came as the US Congress finally approved a budget of $ 740.5 billion to defend the United States in 2021, challenging Trump's threat to disrupt the budget law.
The law document specifically stipulates an increase of 3% for workers in the defense sector, and requires the executive authority to impose sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system.
The Defense Budget Act, which the House of Representatives adopted by an overwhelming majority, received 84 votes in favor and 13 against in the Senate, and the vote allowed the "supermajority" of the votes required in both houses to override a possible veto from the president.
Before the law goes into effect, it is supposed to be sent to the White House for the president to sign it, but Trump threatened to use his right to disable it, especially because the text does not include the abolition of a law known as "Article 230", and protects the legal status of the social networks that he accuses of being biased against him.
The text also contradicts Donald Trump's plan to reduce the US military presence in Germany, and he imposes a period of at least 120 days on the Pentagon before any reduction of forces in Germany, which means that an American withdrawal cannot happen before Biden takes office on January 20.
The law also stipulates that a military withdrawal from Germany in a period of increasing threats in Europe would constitute a serious strategic mistake that would weaken the national security interests of the United States and weaken NATO.
The text touched on the issue of sharing the electromagnetic spectrum with the development of the 5G network frequencies, and asks the Pentagon to reconsider any long-term deployment in any country that uses the services of the two Chinese manufacturers "Huawei" and "ZTE".
On the other hand, the Defense Budget Law also provides for the imposition of sanctions on the "Nord Stream 2" gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany, but in this case no timetable has been set. Rather, the text indicates the need for the foreign minister to discuss the matter with the concerned countries before that.
The US Senate had approved, late yesterday evening, a one-week budget bill, which prevents the government from closing, which is the deadline for the current funding deadline.
Council members passed the bill by voice, extending funding until midnight next Friday, giving the White House and Congress more time to work on a broader framework of spending measures.
The bill was actually passed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, and Trump signed it.
Legislators still need to approve a huge package, including the budget for the fiscal year 2021, and the work of government agencies will continue until September of next year, and they also hope that the package will be used as a means for another round of stimulus package to confront the repercussions of the Coronavirus pandemic, as negotiations over it have been I stopped for months.
The last government shutdown occurred in December 2018 for a period of 35 days, the longest period in the history of the United States, after Trump refused to sign a budget that did not include funds to build a separation wall on the US border with Mexico.
The Republican Party in Texas believes that the court’s ruling may lead to the disintegration of the United States.
- Senior voters meet tomorrow to confirm their votes ... and Biden's campaign condemns the Trump camp's attack on the democratic process.
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