The campaign of the United States President Donald Trump, who lost to Democrat Joe Biden in the election on November 3, continues refusing to concede citing fraud and irregularities.
A number of lawsuits have already been filed with respect to the results declared in keenly contested battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — at the different levels of the country’s judicial system.
Trump’s army of lawyers also approached the United States Supreme Court, the highest arbitrary organization of the world’s most powerful nation. The 2000 presidential election was determined by the US Supreme Court.
In addition to the cases already filed, many more are anticipated to be filed by the losing campaign.
According to legal and election experts of the US, the filing of the lawsuits is legitimate, but if the past is any guide, there is very little chance for the reversal of the outcome in which Biden has already been projected as the president-elect.
The main challenge for the Trump campaign is lack of evidence about electoral fraud and irregularities, they said, adding that without any substantial evidence, the incumbent president has little to no chance of any success.
Even the pro-Republican media outlets have projected Biden, who already started working in relation to the transition, the winner and have so far failed to produce any evidence of fraud and irregularities as alleged by President Trump.
The experts also noted that the court battles should not take a long time and that all the issues will be settled before the inauguration of the 46th president of the US on January 20, 2021.
“I imagine legal issues will be resolved in a week or two,” Matthew Stirling, a professor of history and social policy at the Harvard University and author of books on US election and history, told Dhaka Tribune through an email.
“Only with a very rare set of circumstances could the inauguration be delayed: if that did occur, [Speaker of the House of Representatives] Nancy Pelosi would be president for a while. Trump’s term expires at noon on January 20,” he said when asked if these lawsuits could hold back the inauguration of Joe Biden.
