THE SUPREME COURT REJECTED DONALD TRUMP’S ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
By: Carag @exclusivelycarag
The Supreme Court has rejected Donald Trump’s lawsuit to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory.
The court’s order was only one of many Republican requests to get involved in the 2020 election outcome. The justices turned away an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans last Tuesday. More than half of House Republicans are engaged in a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s win, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out millions of votes in four critical states based on baseless claims of fraud. Many Republicans have stayed silent during this case, but others not so much.
“Texas is a big state, but I don’t know exactly why it has a right to tell four other states how to run their elections. So I’m having a hard time figuring out the basis for that lawsuit,” Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander told NBC’s Chuck Todd in an interview for Meet The Press.
Yes, lawsuits were filed with absolutely no evidence of widespread fraud. Election law experts think the case will never last.
The Supreme Court is not going to overturn the election in the Texas case, as the President has told them to do,” tweeted Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.
“But we are in bad shape as a country that 17 states could support this shameful, anti-American filing” by Texas and its attorney general, Ken Paxton, he said.
A Lawsuit was also filed against Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which repeatedly repeats false, disproven, and unsubstantiated accusations. The case demands that the high court invalidate the states’ 62 total Electoral College votes, setting aside the votes of tens of millions of people, under the baseless claim the Republicans lost a chance at a second term due to widespread fraud.
Although the outstanding legal challenges pertaining to the election are all likely to fail, the Trump campaign has suggested it could continue its fight into January.
