"It's not even about the success of President Trump and the Trump campaign's attempts to overturn the election," Monique Lin-Luse, assistant counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, which filed the lawsuit, told Yahoo News.
"The very attempt ... to overturn it by disenfranchising and de-legitimizing Black voters is what we believe is unlawful, and it's also dangerous and corrosive to our democracy." Donald Trump and Mike Pence President Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in a Washington, D.C., federal court, was brought on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and three Detroit residents over Trump's apparent efforts to sway local officials in Wayne County, Mich., and state legislators to hold off on certifying votes or interfere in the electoral process.
President Trump met with Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey at the White House on Friday in what was viewed as an attempt by Trump to convince the GOP legislators to cooperate with a plan to override the will of voters in Michigan.
Senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis told the station that their only goal is "To ensure safe, secure and fair elections." The Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted Monday to certify the state's election results, after days of speculation over whether outside influence from Trump's campaign or false allegations of voter fraud would complicate a fairly routine process.
The civil case goes beyond Michigan, alleging a strategy from the Trump campaign to disenfranchise voters in cities with large swaths of Black voters.
"What's different about this," she said, "Is that this may mark the first time in recent history when we've seen a voter suppression effort orchestrated by a sitting president, that aimed to cancel out the votes of black voters on a massive and unprecedented scale." The lawsuit also raises the question of what, if any, consequences the Trump campaign and its allies could face in court for the state and federal civil cases they've filed that have yet to produce credible claims or evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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