New lawsuit filed with Michigan Supreme Court seeks to dismiss certified election results

STRAIT – Several Republicans have gone directly to the Michigan Supreme Court to try to prevent Michigan electoral votes from going to President-elect Joe Biden.

Michigan has already certified its election results, but President Donald Trump and his supporters are still hoping to find a way around the process.

The legal capacity of the state legislature to choose new voters is obscure to say the least. This latest trial is just one of the few to continue calls by the president and his campaign to overturn an election they lost.

Inside the 54-page petition, two Trump supporters are suing Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Board of State Canvassers chairperson Jeannette Bradshaw, who certified Michigan’s election on Monday.

The couple are calling on the High Court to ignore the results and ask the Republican-held state legislature to select members of the Michigan Electoral College who are likely to be friendly with the president. They also want the ballot papers to be separated and kept for audit, claiming widespread fraud and irregularity, especially in Detroit, where 80% of residents are minorities.

Most of the allegations made in the trial have been debunked or dismissed in courtrooms across the country.

One of the women suing is the leader of the Black Voices for Trump group, Dr Linda Tarver. The other, Angelic Johnson, was part of a federal lawsuit with similar claims that was dropped last week.

The lawsuit also comes after Trump falsely claimed the Detroit election results were false during a Thanksgiving speech to members of the military stationed overseas.

There was no evidence of electoral fraud or bogus votes in Wayne County.

The lawsuit is also one of six underway by conservative group Amistad, which filed a similar lawsuit in Wisconsin on Tuesday.

The trial is expected to be on the Supreme Court’s docket by Monday. The two women behind hope to make it heard before the December 8 deadline at the Electoral College.

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