Following string of legal disappointment, Jenna Ellis is putting her faith in state legislators

Jenna Ellis, a senior adviser to the Trump legal team and personal attorney to President Trump, on Monday acknowledged the frustration of having courts turn aside challenges to the Nov. 3 election results and signaled future efforts will focus more on appeals to state legislatures. 

"It's been really frustrating for our legal team to have so many of the courts say initially, 'Well if you brought this challenge earlier, then it wouldn't have been right because you wouldn't have actually incurred the harm.' And then if we bring it after to say, 'Well it's too late and you don't have standing," Ellis said on Just the News' Water Cooler" show, just after the Wisconsin Supreme Court's decided not to take up her team's election integrity case. 

She also told show host David Brody, "We're really left in the position of saying 'Well Judiciary, well Supreme Court, is there ever a time that anyone can challenge election integrity results?' " 

The legal strategy her team is hoping to employ, Ellis explained, now primarily on getting state legislators to "reclaim their authority or the manner in which delegates are put forward from their state to the Electoral College."

In layman's terms, Ellis and her team are hoping legislators in such states as Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania will acknowledge that there were constitutional violations in the ways their states ran the presidential election, which under Article 2 of the Constitution, she said, would allow them to offer a secondary option for how to cast their Electoral College votes on Jan. 6.

However, she express disappointment about GOP leaders in state legislatures have contested the results of the election. 

"The leadership, quite frankly, has been very disappointing," she said. "But I think as more and more evidence comes out and they also see how many of their own constituents are rightly very concerned about election integrity, they still do have the opportunity" to join the effort.

Ellis said the legislators have the authority as well as "the duty and the obligation to their constituents and to the Constitution." 

She also thinks the cause has plenty of congressional allies, pointing to the 120 Capitol Hill Republicans who recently signed on to an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case that justices decline Friday not to hear.

Despite the failure Monday of her team's legal case, Ellis said she expects a "movement" in Georgia and Michigan later this week, referring to a slate of other challenges that "Team Trump" has positioned before the courts and the legislators.