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US President Donald Trump says his campaign will join an unlikely case before the US Supreme Court challenging the results of elections in Pennsylvania and other states he lost while trying to look beyond rejection. From judges to a last-minute attempt to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory
The higher court has requested answers before Thursday. Of the roughly 50 lawsuits filed across the country challenging the Nov. 3 vote, Trump has lost more than 35 and the rest are pending, according to a Associated Press bill.
The lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Republican Ken Paxton demands that the 62 total votes from polling stations in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin be invalidated. That’s enough, if set aside, to tip the election toward Trump. Paxton’s lawsuit repeats a litany of false, refuted, and unsubstantiated allegations about mail-in ballots and voting on all four battlefields.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, lost the 2020 elections.
“We will intervene in the case of Texas (and many other states),” Trump said. “This is the biggest. Our country needs a victory! “
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Legal experts dismissed Paxton’s presentation as the latest and perhaps longest legal opportunity since Election Day, and officials from all four states harshly criticized Paxton. “I feel sorry for Texans that their tax money is being wasted in such a genuinely shameful lawsuit,” said Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul.
The Supreme Court, without comment Tuesday, declined to question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has already certified Biden’s victory and the state’s 20 voters will meet on December 14 to cast their votes for the former vice president.
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.
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United States President-elect Joe Biden will take office on January 20.
Shortly before tweeting about joining the Paxton case, Trump distanced himself from Pennsylvania’s challenge and said it was not his. “The case that everyone has been waiting for is the case of the State with Texas and many others joining,” he said.
The court’s decision not to intervene in Pennsylvania came in a lawsuit led by Rep. Mike Kelly, a Republican and Republican congressional candidate and Trump frontrunner, Sean Parnell, who lost to Rep. Conor Lamb, a Democrat.
“Even Trump appointees and Republicans saw this for what it was – a sham,” Lamb said on Twitter.
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The US Supreme Court has rejected the latest attempt by Republicans to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory on the electoral battlefield.
In court documents, attorneys for Pennsylvania and Wolf said the lawsuit’s claims were “fundamentally frivolous” and its request “one of the most dramatic and disturbing invocations of the judiciary in the history of the Republic.”
“No court has issued an order nullifying a governor’s certification of presidential election results,” they wrote.
Having lost the request that the court intervene immediately, Greg Teufel, an attorney for Kelly and Parnell, said he would request that the court consider the case on its underlying merits in an expedited manner.
Still, hopes for immediate intervention regarding the elections “diminished substantially” with the court’s action on Tuesday, Teufel said.
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US President Donald Trump has continued to make false and unsubstantiated claims about the election since his defeat in November.
In their underlying lawsuit, Kelly, Parnell and the other Republican plaintiffs had sought to discard the 2.5 million mail ballots filed under the law or erase the election results and order the Republican-controlled state Legislature to elect presidential voters. from Pennsylvania. .
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 lawmaker voted against its passage last year in the 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.
