US President Donald Trump is declaring victory in the election and is threatening to take ballot counting to the Supreme Court and now the question is, does he have a case?

TRU professor Jeffery Meyers says if Trump does attempt to tie up the election results in the courts, it’ll be a long process.

“Any applications to the courts, which will be done by the Trump campaign and in some cases with the cooperation and support of Republican Secretaries of State in other cases opposing them, will happen in due course in specific ways through each of the state systems, through each of the state’s courts and it’s not going to happen overnight.”

Speaking on the NL Morning News, Meyers doesn’t think the president gets how things like this work.

“In many cases supreme courts already ruled on what the rules are for counting ballots after the day of the election in terms of what are the rules around post marking, you know, what are the rules in terms of when you can open them and start processing them etc etc.”

“Those vary from state to state an there are a variety of decisions before the election, either a ruling on those so Mr. Trump doesn’t understand the process clearly.”

Meyers says unless there is clear evidence of deception, the President simply doesn’t have a case.

“I think over the next two or three days are going to be really important.”

“I think when we find out who the winners are after all the ballots are counted and again, there’s been no proven fraud. There’s been no form of tampering at any kind of statistically relevant level despite the President and his allies keep suggesting that’s the case.”

Meyers adds there is no legal basis for the President to take this to the Supreme Court, pointing out none of the states are into the one percent threshold for a recount.