DETROIT (Legal Newsline) – Republicans will appeal their loss of a lawsuit against the way Presidential voting was conducted in Michigan.
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought by Sidney Powell filed their notice of appeal on Dec. 8 of a decision a day earlier that found they had not proven their allegations that Joe Biden’s Michigan victory was the result of fraud.
Detroit federal judge Linda Parker declared “The People have spoken,” when she refused to grant an injunction against the results of the Michigan vote.
Donald Trump-backers claimed Wayne County was a hotbed of fraud. Their lawsuit says the companies that provided election software and hardware were founded by foreign dictators intent on manipulating elections that would keep Hugo Chavez in power in Venezuela.
“If granted, the relief would disenfranchise the votes of the more than 5.5 million Michigan citizens who, with dignity, hope and a promise of a voice, participated in the 2020 general election,” Parker wrote.
Parker says the plaintiffs, represented by Sidney Powell, failed to back their claims that votes for Trump were destroyed, discarded or otherwise tampered with.
“The closest Plaintiffs get to alleging that election machines and software changed votes for President Trump to Vice President Biden in Wayne County is an amalgamation of theories, conjecture and speculation that such alterations were possible,” Parker wrote.
“And Plaintiffs do not at all explain how the question of whether the treatment of election challengers complied with state law bears on the validity of votes, or otherwise establishes an equal protection claim.”
The ruling is a victory for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, as well as two intervening parties – the City of Detroit and the Democratic National Committee.
Parker concluded her opinion by writing: “Plaintiffs ask this court to ignore the orderly statutory scheme established to challenge elections and to ignore the will of millions of voters. This, the Court cannot, and will not, do. The People have spoken.”