Welcome everyone to Courtside, where we discuss the post-election litigation brought by Donald Trump.

It's day 18 after the election.

The election was called two weeks ago. Today, you might remember, Joe Biden gave a speech.

Everyone on the planet Earth recognizes that Donald Trump has lost, but that leaves Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, and evidently many Republicans

not on the planet. Sorry, I missed you yesterday, but I had to pretend for a moment I had a life,

but we're back in action today. And the momentum is really shifting against Trump, even in the

non-reality-based alternative facts community. So what's happened since I last saw

you? Trump's lost some more cases. He's two out of 35, and the two cases are irrelevant. It didn't

give him any ballots. Now, he's also lost two new cases in Nevada. One was trying to challenge the

signature recognition software, and the other was arguing

that the ballot counting processing machinery was engaged in fraud. Both lawsuits went nowhere, both are

gone. Arizona, they also dismissed the last of the so-called Sharpie Gate cases, so there are no

more pending Arizona cases at all. So here's the bottom line, as Democratic lawyer Mark Elias puts it.

No court has delayed the counting of even a single ballot.

No court has thrown out a single ballot that had already been counted.

No court has delayed the certification of results for even a single minute.

Now, Trump also suffered an embarrassing event

with respect to Michigan. Now, recall, this is the guy who tried to fly out the Michigan

legislators pressuring them to throw out the popular vote and appoint the own slate of electors.

So he flew to Washington, two of these folks, the head of the Michigan Senate and the

Michigan House, both of whom were Republican, and it didn't work, despite all the Oval Office treatment

and the like. They left and they issued a statement saying they, quote, had not been made aware

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