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The United States Supreme Court on Friday rejected a case supported by outgoing President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
The decision ends an attempt to invoke, without evidence, electoral fraud, to nullify millions of votes by mail in four states.
This was the second court decision this week to reject Republicans’ request to invalidate the election results, after an appeal in Pennsylvania on Tuesday was unfavorable for Trump supporters.
The Supreme Court stated that “Texas has shown no judicially recognizable interest in the way other states have conducted elections.”
The Supreme Court dismissed the case without addressing most of the allegations in the case.
The judges considered that Texas did not have the right to present the case, because it is not responsible for ruling on the way other states conduct their elections and because it has not suffered real harm. Even if the complaint was legitimate, it was delivered too late, experts say, according to the Associated Press (AP).
The lawsuit alleges, for example, that Pennsylvania “unconstitutionally removed the legal requirements for signature verification,” but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled unanimously in October that state law only makes it clear that the ballot envelope requires signature. . of the voter, but not the corresponding signature.
Among the states that changed voting practices without legislative action this year is Texas, which extended early voting by six days due to the pandemic.
It was estimated that face-to-face votes, counted more quickly, would likely favor Trump and votes by mail, counted later, would favor Biden.
Democrats, for months, advised voters to cast ballots by mail, which would then be counted, while Trump attacked the vote by mail, considering it fraudulent, despite having voted that way in Florida.
On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Republican Ken Paxton asked the Supreme Court to stop Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all states where Biden won, from supporting his Electoral College victory, arguing that his governors they used the pandemic as a “pretext” to change electoral rules to allow more votes by mail, an option chosen by millions of Americans.
The Texas lawsuit sought to prevent four states in which Biden won – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – from certifying the Democrat’s victory next Monday, the date on which the Electoral College meets to formally ratify the next president.
The four key states involved in the process together represent 62 Electoral College votes.
The Supreme Court is made up of three progressive and six conservative justices, three of whom are appointed by Trump.
Eighteen other states where Donald Trump won the November 3 election, 126 members of the Republican Party in Congress and the outgoing president himself joined Texas in appealing to judges to take up the case that sought to invalidate the president-elect’s victory. . United States, Joe Biden.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel considered, prior to the court’s decision, that if Texas’s claim is upheld, it would be “the end of democracy in the United States of America.”
