Trump has long challenged the Supreme Court over Biden’s victory in Pa


US President Donald Trump hit golf at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia on December 13, 2020.

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President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign in the Supreme Court on Sunday called on judges to reverse the outcome of the race in a long-running bonus bid to challenge President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania.

The case, filed about seven weeks after election day and a month before Biden’s inauguration, will be set aside by judges. This comes at a time when Trump continues to deny his losses, but judges across the country have vehemently denied baseless allegations of fraud by him and his colleagues.

The challenge follows a similar lawsuit brought by Texas that the judges refused to hear earlier this month. The court rejected Trump-backed arguments challenging the election of Pennsylvania and other swing states. All nine judges indicated at the time that they disagreed with Texas’ central arguments.

The judges took no action in the challenge of a separate Supreme Court brought by the Pennsylvania Republican Party, which is fighting the state’s extended absentee ballot deadline. The case was brought before the original election day.

The Trump campaign announced a statement from Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, the former mayor of New York, as well as his latest filing. Giuliani said the case was the first “independent” Supreme Court challenge to the campaign.

In the filing, the judges are asked to reverse three Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions that relax some of the state’s election rules concerning signature verification, election day inspection and mail-in ballot declarations. It said the state’s top court had violated the US Constitution’s right to hold elections for state legislators.

“Collectively, these three decisions resulted in the Pennsylvania Legislature counting approximately 2.6 million mail ballots in violation of the law,” Trump’s attorney John Eastman wrote in the filing.

Eastman wrote that he was involved in “more than enough” voting cases to affect the outcome of the election.

“The outcome of the United States presidential election is in a state of equilibrium,” he said in a separate resolution, citing a congressional deadline of Jan. January 20 Inauguration.

Eastman, a law professor at Chapman University Fowler School of Law in East Gust, caused controversy when he published an article questioning Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ eligibility to run for president. An editor’s note later added that the article was “used by some as a tool to perpetuate racism and xenophobia.”

Eastman told the judges to set a shorter time before Christmas. In a move for quick consideration, he wrote that delays could only hurt Trump, “but the nation as a whole, could suffer the resulting confusion.”

“Indeed, the national and global focus on the 2020 presidential election only reflects the disruption that could well follow if the uncertainty and inaccuracies caused by this election are allowed to remain.”

Eastman asked the court to respond to Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Secretary of State, Kathy Bookover, by Wednesday afternoon to respond to the campaign’s filing.

The last ditch is unlikely to have much practical impact on legal efforts, though Trump is increasingly vying for power as it comes. On Friday, the president asked aides at the Oval Office about the name of a special adviser to investigate election fraud, and raised a question about the possible use of martial law to seize voting machines. He later denied the reports.

Meanwhile, the formal formalities of the transition are constantly advancing.

On January 6, Congress will meet in a joint session to formally count the votes of the electorate and declare Biden the winner. Congressional Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned his party members not to try to block Biden’s victory announcement.

A Biden transition team spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

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