The reelection campaign of President Donald Trump and a handful of Republican groups are litigating more than a dozen active post-election cases in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada as of Nov. 23, with some of the cases already moving up the judicial pyramid.
The plaintiffs are racing against time with just over two weeks left until the safe-harbor deadline on Dec. 8, when the states are supposed to have resolved all disputes and settled the vote counts. The legal pathways toward altering the election outcome will narrow significantly after the safe-harbor marker, given that the Supreme Court ended one post-election dispute in Florida in 2000 because it wasn’t completed by that deadline.
