Trump claims fraud; his lawyers can’t

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Though the president has appealed, it was just the latest embarrassing setback in a string of failed lawsuits he’s mounted to undo his loss. What’s interesting about those cases, writes scholar Steven Mulroy, is that unlike the president’s tweets and statements that claimed fraud, [most of the lawsuits did not](. “It’s one thing to speculate via tweet, but quite another for an attorney, who is an officer of the court, to make representations to a judge,” explains Mulroy, an elections law expert at the University of Memphis. And in the few cases where lawyers did assert fraud, they’ve quickly backpedaled when challenged. Also today: - [How China beat the virus]( - [Biden’s big clean energy plans, explained]( - [Feeling stressed? 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