Supreme Court rejects Republicans’ attempt to block Biden Pennsylvania win
The Supreme Court refused to issue an injunction that would nullify President-elect Joe Biden's win in Pennsylvania
The Supreme Court rejected a request by Pennsylvania Republicans to block the certification of the state’s election results in President-elect Joe Biden’s favor.
SCOTUS issued a one-line order Tuesday that had no dissenting opinions that it would not put in place injunction that would block President-elect Biden’s victory from being certified in the commonwealth, CNN reported. It is another legal setback for President Donald Trump who has yet to concede the election.
“The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the order read.
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It has been five weeks since Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election. However, Trump and his allies have appealed to the courts and legislators. TheGrio reported that the president sought to overturn the Pennsylvania results. He repeatedly called the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Bryan Cutler to pressure him about the results.
Biden won the battleground state with 50% of the counted vote to Trump’s 48.8%.
“The president said, ‘I’m hearing about all these issues in Philadelphia and these issues with your law,’” said Cutler spokesman Michael Straub, describing the House speaker’s two conversations with Trump. “‘What can we do to fix it?’”
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Republican Rep. Mike Kelly and others filed suit on Nov. 21 in which he wanted Pennsylvania to vacate the 2.5 million ballots that were cast through the mail. In lieu of that, he wanted Pennsylvania to allow state lawmakers to pick presidential electors in the Republican-controlled legislature.
On Tuesday afternoon, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito asked that Pennsylvania file a brief on the matter who in turn asked that the High Court stay out of it. Lawyers representing the state of Pennsylvania declared in a court filing that it was nothing less than an affront to constitutional democracy” if the Supreme Court were to intervene.
“No court has ever issued an order nullifying a governor’s certification of presidential election results,” argued J. Bart Delone, the state’s chief deputy attorney general. “The loss of public trust in our constitutional order resulting in this kind of judicial power would be incalculable.”
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