The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground.
The court without comment refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory and the state’s 20 electors are to meet on Dec. 14 to cast their votes for Biden.
Biden won 306 electoral votes, so even if Pennsylvania’s results had been in doubt, he still would have more than the 270 electoral votes needed to become president.
Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania and other plaintiffs pleaded with the justices to intervene after the state Supreme Court turned away their case.
The Republicans argued that Pennsylvania’s expansive vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional because it required a constitutional amendment to authorize its provisions.
Biden beat President Donald Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state Trump had won in 2016. Most mail-in ballots were submitted by Democrats.
The state’s high court said the plaintiffs waited too long to file the challenge and noted the Republicans’ staggering demand that an entire election be overturned retroactively.
In the underlying lawsuit, Kelly and the other Republican plaintiffs had sought to either throw out the 2.5 million mail-in ballots submitted under the law or to wipe out the election results and direct the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to pick Pennsylvania’s presidential electors.
(AP)
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Just to clarify, the supreme court rejected the injunction, the court case itself is still on the docket, may emes win out the day!
Biden anti my president. The evil dems cheated.
A truly tragic day in the history of the United States of America, and in the history of freedom & democracy.
The anti democracy attempt by trump to steal the election is over. We knew he’d do this because trying to get foreign help to win the election was why he was impeached, now he’s trying to do it here.
The loser, (Trump) keeps on losing. The reality TV host who can’t face reality
When Trump won everyone was screaming “Yad Hashem”. When Biden wins against all odds just like Trump did, we should surely see the “Yad Hashem”.
The churban and the Holocaust were also Yad Hashem, but they’re not anything to celebrate! We must bless Hashem whatever He does, but there are times when we bless Him as Hatov Vehametiv, and times when we bless Him as Dayan Ho’emes. IF this malchus horish’oh ends up taking power then we will have to say Tziduk Hadin.