The Court's Complicity in the Coup Attempt

The indictment shows that Eastman's plan was also counting on state and federal courts to legitimize the scheme. In Arizona, for example, Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani filed a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court as a pretext so that there was pending litigation at the time the fraudulent electors voted. The actual outcome of the lawsuits were irrelevant; the important thing is that these, quote, ongoing disputes were underway and that the public knew it.