Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani joins Pa. court case seeking to deny Biden victory after other attorneys quit

But the new attorney for Trump’s campaign in the Pennsylvania lawsuit, Marc Scaringi, who is also a talk radio host, had said on his show on Nov. 7 before joining the team that attempts to reverse Biden’s projected electoral victory “will not work.”

That was the same day that NBC News and other media outlets called the national election for Biden, after they projected he would win Pennsylvania’s 20 Electoral College votes.

The lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania alleges that a number of counties evaluated mail-in ballots on an “entirely parallel track to those ballots cast in person.”

It also claims that a number of Democrat-heavy counties illegally reviewed mail-in ballots earlier than they should have, which gave voters there extra time to “cure” problems with their ballots.

On Sunday, the Trump campaign amended its complaint, abandoning a claim that election officials in certain counties had blocked some observers from watching ballots being counted.

Less than a week before Tuesday’s hearing, lawyers on the Trump campaign’s team from Porter Wright Morris Arthur had withdrawn from the case.

“Plaintiffs and Porter Wright have reached a mutual agreement that plaintiffs will be best served if Porter Wright withdraws,” those lawyers said in a court filing.

On Monday, three more lawyers asked the judge to let them leave the case.

The judge, Brann, granted the request for two of them — John Scott and Douglas Hughes, both of whom are based in Texas.

But the judge was silent on the request to withdraw by Linda Kerns, a Philadelphia-based attorney whose practice previously specialized in family law matters.

Scaringi, the attorney who also has a radio show, then joined the Trump campaign’s legal team.

Hours later, Scaringi asked Brann to reschedule Tuesday’s oral arguments, as well as an evidentiary hearing set for Thursday.

“Having only been retained today, Plaintiffs’ new counsel need additional time to adequately prepare this case for the upcoming oral argument and evidentiary hearing,” Scaringi wrote in a court filing.

“Furthermore, this is a case of significant complexity and importance to the people of the United States of America,” Scaringi wrote.

Brann promptly denied the request.

“Counsel for the parties are expected to be prepared for argument and questioning,” the judge wrote in an order Monday night.

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