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In the fight for the outcome of the US presidential election, incumbent Donald Trump suffered another legal defeat in the beleaguered state of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Trump’s Republicans against the election result.
The plaintiffs had demanded that postal ballots be declared invalid, or that all votes cast in the state be canceled and that the decision on the winner of the elections be left to the local parliament.
The justices unanimously rejected both claims, including the “extraordinary” proposal to “disenfranchise” Pennsylvania’s 6.9 million voters. The lawsuit was formally directed against a 2019 Pennsylvania postal ballot extension bill that Trump’s lawyers ruled unconstitutional. However, the judges dismissed the lawsuit because it was out of date because the law was in effect for more than a year.
Democrat Joe Biden won the Pennsylvania election by about 81,000 votes. Last Tuesday, the state officially confirmed the result of the presidential election and Biden’s victory.
Trump’s campaign team went to court against Biden’s election victory in Pennsylvania, but had already suffered several defeats. It was only on Friday that a federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against the allegedly unfair vote because no evidence of voter fraud had been presented.
Trump reacted on Twitter, unreasonably: The number of objectionable ballots is far greater than Biden’s 81,000-vote lead. It will proceed against the decision. Like so many times before, Twitter marks the statements with a warning: “This claim about electoral fraud is in dispute.”
Electoral defeat is not yet admitted
Trump has yet to admit defeat in the November 3 presidential election and claims, without citing any evidence, that there was massive fraud in the vote.
On Thursday, Trump announced his retirement from the White House for the first time. When asked if he would leave the White House if the electoral college elected Biden as the new president on December 14, the president responded, “Of course I will.”
In the United States, the president is not elected directly by the electorate, but by a college of electors who belong to the Electoral College. The electoral college consists of 538 voters. A minimum of 270 votes is required to enter the White House. Biden has 306 voters in the Nov. 3 poll, Trump has 232.
