President Donald Trump. In his ruling, Brann said the Trump campaign presented "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations ... unsupported by evidence." Judge Brann said the claims by the Trump campaign that the guarantee of equal protection had been violated were "like Frankenstein's Monster... haphazardly stitched together from two distinct theories in an attempt to avoid controlling precedent." The Trump campaign responded by issuing a statement blasting the "Obama-appointed judge" while vowing to fight on all the way to the Supreme Court. "Today's decision turns out to help us in our strategy to get expeditiously to the US Supreme Court," Trump campaign attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis wrote in their statement.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 22, 2020 01:42 UTC