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The Supreme Court on Wednesday (NZT) rejected the latest attempt by Republicans to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of US President-elect Joe Biden’s victory on the electoral battlefield.
The court without comment declined to question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has already certified Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump, and the state’s 20 voters will meet on December 14 to cast their votes for Biden.
In any case, Biden won 306 electoral votes, so even if Pennsylvania’s results had been in doubt, he would still have more than the 270 electoral votes required to become president.
The court’s decision not to intervene came in a lawsuit led by Republican Republican Mike Kelly of northeastern Pennsylvania and Republican Congressional candidate and Trump favorite Sean Parnell, who lost to Democrat Conor Lamb, Republican of Pittsburgh.
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Biden beat Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state Trump had won in 2016. Most of the mail-in ballots were sent by Democrats.
“Even Trump appointees and Republicans saw this for what it was – a sham,” Lamb said on Twitter.
In court filings, Pennsylvania attorneys and Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, had called the lawsuit’s claims “fundamentally frivolous” and its request as “one of the most dramatic and disruptive invocations of the judiciary in the history of the United States. Republic”.
“No court has issued an order nullifying a governor’s certification of presidential election results,” they wrote.
Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas had offered to defend the case, if the higher court accepted it.
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The Supreme Court, without comment, declined to question the certification process in Pennsylvania.
Having lost the request for the court to intervene immediately, Greg Teufel, an attorney for Kelly and Parnell, said he will file a separate request asking the court to consider the case on its underlying merits in an expedited manner.
Still, hopes for immediate intervention “diminished substantially” with the court’s action Tuesday, Teufel said.
Republicans had pleaded with the justices to intervene immediately after the state Supreme Court rejected their case last week.
Republicans argued that Pennsylvania’s broad vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional because it requires a constitutional amendment to authorize its provisions. Only one Republican state legislator voted against its passage last year in Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature.
Biden beat Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state Trump had won in 2016. Most of the mail-in ballots were sent by Democrats.
The state’s superior court said the plaintiffs waited too long to file the challenge and noted the staggering demand by Republicans that all elections be retroactively annulled.
In the underlying lawsuit, Kelly, Parnell and the other Republican plaintiffs had sought to discard the 2.5 million mail ballots filed under the law or to erase the election results and order the Republican-controlled state Legislature to elect presidential voters. from Pennsylvania. .
