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THE US SUPREME Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
The decision ends a desperate attempt to get state and federal judges to dismiss legal issues before the nation’s highest court.
The court order was the second this week to reject Republican requests to participate in the outcome of the 2020 election.
The justices rejected an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans on Tuesday.
The Electoral College will meet on Monday to formally elect Biden as the next president.
Trump had called the lawsuit filed by Texas against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin “the big one” that would end the Supreme Court undoing Biden’s substantial majority in the Electoral College and allow him to serve another four years in the White House.
In a short order, the court said Texas does not have the legal right to sue those states because “it has not demonstrated a judicially recognizable interest in the way another state conducts its elections.”
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who have previously said the court does not have the authority to reject interstate lawsuits, said they would have heard the Texas complaint.
But they would not have done what Texas wanted pending resolution of the lawsuit, and they sidelined 62 electoral votes from those four states for Biden.
Three Trump appointees sit in the high court.
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In his effort to get the latest of his nominees, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, quickly confirmed, Trump said she would be needed for any post-election lawsuits.
Judge Barrett appears to have been involved in both cases this week. None of those Trump appointees noted a disagreement in either case.
Another 18 states won by Trump in last month’s election, 126 Republican members of Congress and Trump himself joined Texas in asking justices to take up the case that sought to prevent voters from voting for Biden.
All four states sued by Texas had urged the court to dismiss the case as unfounded. They were backed by 22 other states and the District of Columbia.
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