identified 62 post election lawsuits filed by the trump campaign and his allies between november 4th, 2020 and january six, 2021. those cases resulted in 61 losses and only a single victory, which actually didn t affect the outcome for either candidate. despite those 61 losses, president trump and his allies claimed that the courts refused to hear them out. as a result, they never had their day in court. mr. ginsburg, would you say about the claims that mr. trump was not given an opportunity to provide the evidence that they had a voter fraud. in fact, did they have their day in court? they did have their day in court. about half of those cases that you mentioned were dismissed during the procedural stage for a lack of standing of proper people bringing in the case, or there was not sufficient evidence, and it got dismissed on a motion to dismiss.
but in the other, there was discussion of the merits that was contained in a complaint. in no instance did a court find that the charges of fraud were real. it is also worth noting that even if the trump campaign complained that it did not have its day in court, there have been post-election reviews in each of the six battleground states that could have made a difference. those ranged from the somewhat farcical cyber ninjas case in arizona to the michigan senate report that was mentioned earlier, the hand recount in georgia, the mr. pak address. in each one of those instances, there was no credible evidence of fraud produced by the trump campaign or his supporters. thank you. as mr. ginsburg has explained, there are no cases where the trump campaign was able to convince the court that there was widespread fraud or
this effect reflects the actual majority opinion. i believe it should. for the simple reason that roe vs. wade was infirmed as a constitutional matter from the beginning. you take away the moral issues associated with the taking of an unborn human, take away all those and look at it from a sheer constitutional perspective. this was never appropriate. nine lawyers dressed up in robes to take this away from elected lawmakers. this was a huge victory. i don t believe any of the justices who signed on to what appears to be majority opinions of the court are going to change in response to this horrible, dastardly, cowardly attempt to threaten, intimidate, and harass them into doing something else. shannon: there are those on the left including justice ginsburg, felt like there were flaws with the way that roe was decided and
impact of this nomination and this vote, that this is a judge and soon to be a supreme court justice that will likely play an important role in our nation over the course of the next three decades. so for this to happen without a hitch, to go off smoothly is a real testament to this white house and, quite frankly, also to the real competence of the nominee. and to michael steele, having watched supreme court nominees for decades and confirmation processes all the way back to judge bork in a failed case, it s true that she s replacing a liberal and so it s not changing, it s not altering the court, but she s bringing the sensibility of a black woman to the court. in these conferences, there s no telling the impact, because i watched it with sandra day o connor, i watched it with judge ginsburg and then with sotomayor and elena kagan.
back. you could go as far back to bush the first went there are good marshall tragically died, went out of his way to find a black person to replace him and really quite frankly found a much more conservative person than you could ve ever gotten confirmed if he had found a white person that had clarence thomas s views. you don t have to go back to bush 41, you could go to donald trump who said directly while brett kavanaugh was taking water and the republicans were saying you should nominate this other person, amy coney barrett. no, no, no. i m saving her for ginsburg. and when ginsburg passed away he said he wanted a woman to replace ginsburg. and the national review wrote that they wanted a woman to replace ginsburg so that they would have eight women with them when they overturned roe v. wade. the mediocrity of these people literally knows no bounds. they re happy to play identity politics when it works in their favor and they get more conservative people than they