Trump’s lawyers argued Thursday that Stein should not be allowed to seek the recount because she was not “aggrieved”. “[The law] has never been understood to permit challenges by bottom-dwelling (and thus not aggrieved) candidates like Stein,” the argued. Michigan’s Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, backed the Trump campaign’s arguments Friday, and asked the state Supreme Court to block the recount.
Michigan’s elections board will consider Friday a request from President-elect Donald Trump to block a hand recount of the state’s 4.8 million votes cast asked for by Green Party’s Jill Stein – who Trump’s lawyers called a “bottom-dwelling candidate.”
Trump’s lawyers argued Thursday that Stein should not be allowed to seek the recount because she was not “aggrieved” as the potential miscount could not conceivably have cost her the election. They also argued that Stein waited so late to file her recount petition, which the candidate filed…
