Elections in the United States: the Supreme Court rejects the latest demand of Trump’s allies

The United States Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get state and federal judges to reject legal issues before the highest court in the United States. nation.

The court order on Friday (Saturday NZT) was the second this week in which it rejected Republican requests to participate in the outcome of the 2020 election. Justices rejected an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans on Tuesday.

The Electoral College meets 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 with the Supreme Court undoing Biden’s substantial majority in the Electoral College and allowing Trump to serve another four years in the White House.

In a short order, the court said Texas did 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. 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.

Barrett appears to have been involved in both cases this week. None of those Trump appointees noted a disagreement in either case.

Eighteen other 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.