Washington The Supreme Court of the United States, on Friday, rejected a makeshift lawsuit from Texas and backed by President Donald Triumph seeking to dismiss the voting results in four states, which likely dealt him a fatal blow in his quest to undo his electoral defeat to President-elect Joe Biden.
The decision allows the US electoral college to go ahead with a meeting on Monday, where it is expected to formally cast its votes and make Biden’s victory official. Biden, a Democrat, has amassed 306 votes for TriumphIt is 232 on the Electoral College state-by-state, which allocates votes to all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on population.
The four states in question – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – contributed 62 combined votes to Biden’s total. 270 votes are needed to win the White House.
In a short order, the justices said Texas had no legal capacity to present the case, abruptly ending the Triumph he had touted this week as his best hope for reversing the election.
After midnight, Triumph He said on Twitter: “The Supreme Court really let us down. Without wisdom there is no value! “Complaining that the court had dismissed the case” in an instant “even though he garnered more votes than any other sitting president, Triumph wrote: “A rigged election, fight!”
While Biden has moved forward with a wave of appointments to his incoming administration before taking office on January 20, Triumph and his legal team has filed a series of unsuccessful lawsuits in various states baselessly alleging voter fraud and questioning the results.
TriumphThe goal had long been to get a case to the Supreme Court, where he had placed three new justices in his first term and where the Conservatives have a 6-3 majority. The lawsuit filed by Texas and supported by 17 other states and more than 100 Republican members of Congress gave him that opportunity.
In the run-up to the November 3 elections, Triumph had lobbied for the swift confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, in the publicly stated hope that she might be in a position to help rule on an election challenge. However, Barrett and the other two judges appointed by Triumph – Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh – signed the court order derailing the Texas lawsuit without comment.
“Texas has not demonstrated a judicially recognizable interest in the way another state conducts its elections,” the court order said.
Two of the court’s conservatives, Judge Samuel Alito and Judge Clarence Thomas, said they would have allowed Texas to sue, but they would not have stopped the four states from finalizing their election results.
‘Nation of laws’
Along with a Pennsylvania case, it was the second time this week that the court rejected the attempt to revoke the will of the voters.
The Texas case was brought Tuesday by Ken Paxton, the state’s Republican attorney general and a Triumph ally. The Republican president filed a motion Wednesday to intervene and become a plaintiff.
“There’s no way to tell other than they dodged it,” White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said of the judges on Fox News Channel. “They dodged, they hid behind the procedure and they refused to use their authority to enforce the constitution.”
A Biden spokesman said it was “no surprise” that the high court rejected “unfounded attempts” to deny Triumph lost the elections. “Our nation’s highest court saw this seditious abuse of our electoral process,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said on Twitter.
Dana Nessel, Michigan attorney general, also a Democrat, said in a statement that the ruling was “an important reminder that we are a nation of laws, and while some may yield to the will of a single individual, the courts will not.”
The Texas lawsuit argued that changes made by the four states to voting procedures amid the pandemic to expand voting by mail were illegal.
“It is regrettable that the Supreme Court has decided not to take this case and determine the constitutionality of the violation of federal and state electoral law in these four states,” Paxton said in a statement.
Triumph And many of his fellow Republicans have made unsubstantiated claims that the expansion of voting by mail during the coronavirus pandemic led Biden to fraudulently win in electoral battle states. State election officials have said they have found no evidence of fraud. Lawyers for Triumph and his allies have presented no evidence in court of the type of fraud he alleges.
Democrats and other critics have accused Triumph of trying to break public belief in the integrity of American elections and sabotage American democracy by trying to subvert the will of the voters. Triumph advisers inside and outside the White House have long resigned themselves to TriumphDefeat despite the president’s quixotic quest to reverse the results. Triumph he has refused to grant the elections and advisers hope that he will continue to do so.
TriumphTop legal advisers, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, said the president’s legal remedies were not exhausted and that they would continue to work to invalidate the election before January 6, when Congress formally adopts the Electoral College results. Their role in doing so is largely ceremonial.
(Reuters)
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