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Unsuccessful Effort to Decertify Georgia’s 2020 Presidential Election Results a Few Days Before Congressional Certification

Robert Timothy Reagan
September 2, 2023

Trump v. Kemp (Mark H. Cohen, N.D. Ga. 1:20-cv-5310)
About an hour before New Year’s Day, six days before Congress was to certify President Biden’s Electoral College victory in the 2020 presidential election, the defeated incumbent filed a federal complaint in the Northern District of Georgia seeking to have Georgia’s presidential election results decertified. The district judge denied the plaintiff immediate relief at a January 5, 2021, videoconference hearing.
Subject: Voting irregularities. Topics: Enjoining certification; laches; matters for state courts; Electoral College.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.

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Election Litigation | Electoral College | Enjoining Certification | Matters for State Courts | Voting Irregularities | Emergency Proceedings | Laches | U.S. District Courts | N.D. Ga.