The US Supreme Court has rejected a bid by a Republican member of Congress and other GOP activists against President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania.
In a one-sentence order on Tuesday afternoon, the justices turned down the emergency request from Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) and two other House candidates to decertify the results of last month’s election in the Keystone State.
President Donald Trump has previously suggested without evidence that the election result would be settled in the Supreme Court. He and his supporters have launched dozens of lawsuits questioning the vote results. None have come close to overturning Biden’s victory.
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Kelly’s rejected suit, argued that legislation the state adopted last year allowing for no-excuse, mail-in voting violated the state constitution and that the results of last month’s vote should be invalidated.
The one-sentence Supreme Court ruling did not even cover the Republicans’ allegations, reading simply: “The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.”
However, Biden will have to face more challenges concerning the election results. Republicans in the state of Texas filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court on Tuesday accusing four other states of election irregularities, a challenge legal experts have criticized.
Plaintiffs want the court to stop the use of “unlawful election results without review and ratification by the defendant states’ legislatures”.
No proof of mass fraud
One law professor at the University of Texas tweeted that this was “a new leader in the ‘craziest lawsuit filed to purportedly challenge the election’ category”, while another law professor at the University of California dismissed it as a “press release masquerading as a lawsuit” in a blog post.
US Attorney General William Barr said last week that his justice department had found no proof of mass fraud in the 2020 election.
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