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Supreme Court rejects attempt to throw out Biden win in Pennsylvania

 

by Nicholas Rowan, Staff Writer

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a Republican-led attempt to overturn the election results showing a win for President-elect Joe Biden.

In orders released Tuesday afternoon, the court rejected Rep. Mike Kelly’s request for injunctive relief. Kelly petitioned Justice Samuel Alito last week to take up the case, claiming that Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots violated the state constitution.

Pennsylvania responded to Kelly’s appeal on Tuesday, calling it “fundamentally frivolous.”

“They make that request without any acknowledgment of the staggering upheaval, turmoil, and acrimony it would unleash,” the state’s attorney, Andrew Wiygul, wrote of Republican attempts to throw out the ballots.

The court’s decision came just as the Dec. 8 “safe harbor deadline” came to a close, effectively killing the Trump team’s ability to appeal other election disputes to the high court. Alito briefly gave Republicans hope for the case on Sunday when he ordered that the requirements for Pennsylvania to respond be moved from Wednesday to Tuesday, giving the court a chance to weigh in before the cutoff.

Kelly’s lawyer, Greg Teufel, on Tuesday told the Washington Examiner that Trump supporters will continue to protest the election results.

“We do not consider the passage of that date as precluding relief by the court as to the 2020 presidential election,” he said shortly before the decision was reached. “The only options we are pursuing at this point are in the U.S. Supreme Court.”

The Trump legal team made a similar statement on Tuesday, pointing out that the safe harbor deadline is a federal law, not a constitutional requirement. Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign, and Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s top lawyer, said that they plan to push their election disputes beyond the Electoral College’s Dec. 14 vote and all the way to Biden’s January inauguration.

“The only fixed day in the U.S. Constitution is the inauguration of the President on January 20 at noon,” they said in a joint statement. “Despite the media trying desperately to proclaim that the fight is over, we will continue to champion election integrity until the legal vote is counted fairly and accurately.”

The Trump team’s attempts to fight election results have overwhelmingly failed, and Trump has seemed to acknowledge several times since the election that his chances for overturning the loss have become increasingly slim. The president, on Monday, while he was presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Olympic wrestler Dan Gable, nodded toward the possibility of failure.

 

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