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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump’s campaign team, which demanded the invalidation of votes by mail and was intended to block the certification of the results of the United States presidential elections in that state, that give the victory to Joe Biden. , by a margin of more than 80 thousand votes.
The lawsuit led by Republican Congressman Mike Kelly further proposed that the court allow the Pennsylvania Congress to decide the winner of the election.
The lawsuit was unanimously dismissed by the seven judges of Pennsylvania’s highest court, who described it as an “extraordinary proposal for the court to marginalize 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the elections.”
Five judges also filed a written resolution arguing that the lawsuit had been filed too late: first, because state regulations on voting by mail had been in place for about a year; second, because the complaint was filed several weeks after thousands of voters began using this method of electoral participation.
The result of this process adds one more defeat to the list of judicial mishaps of President Trump’s campaign, which does not recognize Biden’s victory in the presidential elections on November 3 and denounces a “huge electoral fraud” in favor of the Democrats .
According to the Associated Press, this was the 38th loss for Republicans in court, with other lawsuits filed across the country.
As of Friday night, a federal court in Philadelphia had already dismissed a separate legal challenge to the results in Pennsylvania, arguing that “the charges require specific charges and evidence” and concluding that “there was nothing to do with it” in the claim at question. .
“To say that an election was unfair does not make it unfair,” said Judge Stephanos Bibas.
According to projections of media The Americans, Joe Biden, obtained 306 votes in the Electoral College (270 were needed to win the presidential elections in the United States) and Donald Trump stood at 232. In the popular vote, Biden leads with more than 6 million votes over the head of state. .
