GEORGIA HIGH COURT REJECTS TRUMP’S ELECTION APPEAL

President Donald Trump has lost his latest legal challenge seeking to overturn Georgia’s election results, with the state Supreme Court’s rejection late Saturday (Sunday, December 13, 2020 in Manila) of a case from Trump’s campaign and Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

The suit - similar to other Trump team legal challenges, which made baseless allegations of widespread fraud in Georgia’s presidential election - was initially filed Dec. 4, then rejected by the Fulton County Superior Court because the paperwork was improperly completed and it lacked the appropriate filing fees

Earlier, Trump told Fox and Friends that his various legal challenges over the outcome of the presidential election are not yet over, despite setback after setback in the courts. “We keep going and we're going to continue to go forward. We have numerous local cases,” he said during an interview conducted on Saturday but which aired on the cable news network on Sunday morning. He said: “We're going to speed it up as much as we can, but you can only go so fast. They give us very little time. But we caught them, as you know, as fraudulent, dropping ballots, doing so many things, nobody can even believe it.” Trump has relentlessly promoted false claims that the election was rigged against him.

The case was subsequently appealed directly to the state Supreme Court, asking justices to consider the case before Monday’s meeting of the Electoral College. In a brief order, justices wrote that “petitioners have not shown that this is one of those extremely rare cases that would invoke our original jurisdiction.”