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“Stop the Steal” bullshit cost Pennsylvania $3.4 million in legal fees

“Two weeks after the 2020 presidential election was called for Democrat Joe Biden, and as President Donald Trump sought to overturn the results, Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey issued a statement accepting Biden’s win. The Keystone State’s 20 electoral votes handed Biden the White House. But they had become the target of an unprecedented effort by Trump and his allies to reverse what his Justice Department and eventually over 60 legal decisions would confirm was a free and fair election. On Nov. 21, U.S. Middle District Court Judge Matthew Brann, who is a member of the conservative Federalist Society, had just tossed out the Trump campaign’s efforts to invalidate all 7 million of Pennsylvania’s votes. Toomey, who voted for Trump, had seen enough. A contentious year: How Pennsylvania’s tumultuous 2020 election unfolded ‘President Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania,’ Toomey wrote. Four days later, Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican from Butler County and a fervent Trump backer, filed a lawsuit challenging Act 77, which allowed for no-excuse mail voting.”

“Almost every Republican lawmaker voted yes when the state legislature passed it in 2019. Kelly was asking that all 2.5 million mail in votes be invalidated. It was shocking, to be honest,’ said former Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar. A Republican Congressman, she said, was ‘trying to disenfranchise millions of Pennsylvania voters.’ The lawsuit became a central piece of the former president’s sweeping campaign to halt the certification of Biden’s win in Pennsylvania and a handful of key states. The cost of Trump’s effort, along with other election-related lawsuits, hit taxpayers. The Pennsylvania Department of State paid law firms over $3.4 million for work on election-related lawsuits filed before and after election day by any group or political party, according to invoices obtained by WITF through a Right-to-Know request. All but one of the suits brought by Trump and his allies, before and after the election, failed. Yet they accounted for more than $1.9 million of the overall cost incurred by DOS” – Harrisburg Patriot-News.

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