If it wasn't for his wife they would be dead. They were booked on the Pan Am flight that blew up over Lockerbie but they missed the flight because his wife took so long packing.

Brian May is very much more than a musician though. To begin with he has a PhD awarded as an astrophysicist which is no mean feat in itself. He read maths and physics at Imperial College, and was awarded BSc (Hons), he's also an accomplished author.

There's a whole lot more to Brian May than just an "Axe Man" with Queen.

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The man is an idiot, not only is he destroying faith in the World's most important Democracy he was wanting to launch a strike against Iran.

Supreme court justices ruled observers were not blocked from the counting and also reversed a decision allowing observers within 6ft.

Philadelphia election officials did not improperly block Donald Trump’s campaign from observing the counting of mail-in ballots, the Pennsylvania supreme court ruled on Tuesday, a major blow to the president’s already flailing legal efforts.

The decision is significant because one of the Trump campaign’s loudest claims since the election has been that they were improperly blocked from observing the counting of ballots in Philadelphia.

While campaign observers were always allowed to observe, the campaign alleged they were being kept too far from the counting – about 15-18ft – to make any meaningful observation. It secured a court order in the days after election day requiring Philadelphia officials to let observers within 6ft.

But the Pennsylvania supreme court reversed that decision on Tuesday, noting that Pennsylvania law gives Philadelphia election officials wide discretion to decide the rules around observers.

The decision came amid a separate hearing on Tuesday in a Pennsylvania federal court.

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, used the hearing to claim widespread voting fraud, but offered no evidence in the long-shot challenge. Lawyers for Pennsylvania rejected Giuliani’s fraud allegations and asked the US district judge hearing the case, Matthew Brann, to throw out Trump’s lawsuit.

While a ruling has not yet been issued, a loss in the case would likely doom Trump’s already-remote prospects of altering the election’s outcome.

Pennsylvania court deals blow to Trump campaign’s bid to overturn Biden win

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...2020-joe-biden



Another one bites the dust .....

In a matter of hours on Thursday, Trump's allies were dealt legal setbacks in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Republicans lost their final lawsuit in Georgia as a court rejected their effort to block the results' certification, which is due to happen on Friday. The judge who dismissed the case was appointed by Mr Trump last year.

In Arizona, a judge rejected a lawsuit filed last week by the state Republican Party seeking a new audit of ballots in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix - the state capital and largest city.

In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign lost their bid in state court to throw out more than 2,000 postal ballots.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55006188



I'd call that part of "a losing streak" * rather than "a viable path to victory" .....

* The Trump campaign has lost 30 out of the 31 lawsuits it has filed since election day .....

A federal judge dealt a death blow to the Trump campaign's effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win of the presidency on Saturday, by dismissing a closely watched lawsuit that sought to invalidate millions of Pennsylvania votes.

"It is not in the power of this Court to violate the Constitution," Judge Matthew Brann of the US District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania wrote on Saturday in a withering decision, hours after the final round of filings in the case came in. The judge wholeheartedly rejected the Trump campaign's attempt to throw out the Pennsylvania vote, noting that Biden has won the state and results will be certified by state officials on Monday. Biden has a margin of more than 81,000 votes in the state.

This was essentially the last major case seeking to throw out or block enough votes that could swing a key state in Trump's favor.