DENVER – A federal court of appeal based in Denver has agreed to a lower court’s rejection of a lawsuit claiming that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from President Donald Trump and had been cheated by Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook (now Meta) and others.
Friday’s statement from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, first reported by Colorado Politics, found that eight plaintiffs from across the United States had no justification to claim that the result of the election “violated the constitutional rights of any registered voter in the United States. ”
The case was based on baseless conspiracy theories spread by Trump and his supporters that the election was stolen in favor of Joe Biden. It named, among others, Facebook and Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, whose voting machines remain the focus of some of the most feverish – and continued – speculation about fraud.
The American judge, N. Reid Neureiter, dismissed the case in April 2021, finding that the plaintiffs could not show that they had suffered specific harm as a result of the election and therefore had no justification to bring the case.
The Court of Appeal agreed and it rejected the applicants’ request to make the action a class action on behalf of all registered voters.
