WSJ: Trump Pressured DOJ To Petition Supreme Court To Invalidate Biden’s Victory, Top DOJ Officials Refused

The Wall Street Journal reports:

In his last weeks in office, former President Donald Trump considered moving to replace the acting attorney general with another official ready to pursue unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and he pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate President Biden’s victory, people familiar with the matter said.

Those efforts failed due to pushback from his own appointees in the Justice Department, who refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit in the Supreme Court.

Senior department officials, including Mr. Rosen, former Attorney General William Barr and former acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall refused to file the Supreme Court case, concluding that there was no basis to challenge the election outcome.

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Trump Pressed Justice Department to Go Directly to Supreme Court to Overturn Election Results – WSJ https://t.co/p110lKOj8G

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