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The lawsuit was supported by 18 states, leased by Texas, and involved Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. All four states were won by Democrat Joe Biden.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday by Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general. He demanded that millions of mail-in ballots in all four states be invalid and must be rejected.
18 states supported
Texas claimed that all four states had changed election laws and expanded the ability to vote by mail in an unconstitutional manner. They are said to have done this using the corona pandemic as a basis, and Paxton said this was not legal.
Ken Paxton is the chief state attorney for Texas. He is the man behind the lawsuit, which was supported by 18 states and much of the Republican Party.
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Paxton joined the 17 other states in which President Trump won the Nov.4 election.
More than half of the Republican representatives in Congress also supported the demand. President Donald Trump urged the Supreme Court to reverse the election.
But now the Supreme Court has responded by dismissing the entire lawsuit. So hope is in Trump’s camp.
In a brief ruling, the Supreme Court affirms that Texas has no legal basis to advance the case involving Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Therefore, the Supreme Court does not delve into the reality of the case itself, but rather formally rejects it.
Biden: – No surprise
A spokeswoman for Joe Biden says it is not surprising that the Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit.
“It was an unfounded attempt to deny that Trump lost the election,” he said, according to Reuters.
On Monday, the Electoral College will meet to formally elect Joe Biden as the next president. In college, Joe Biden has secured the support of 306 voters, while Trump has only 232. In the elections, Biden received 81 million votes, while Donald Trump received 74 million votes. Both votes were a new record, both for a sitting president and a challenger.
