Noah Feldman, Columnist

Trump’s Election Lawsuits Are Legally Hollow

Attempts to meddle with vote counts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia are dead on arrival.

November 5, 2020 at 1:48 AM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

There’s no legal reason to stop counting votes.
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Legally speaking, President Donald Trump’s various election lawsuits amount to nothing.

On Wednesday the Trump campaign announced an array of different legal efforts to fight Joe Biden’s apparently impending Electoral College victory.