{"id":38211,"date":"2020-11-23T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=38211"},"modified":"2020-11-23T19:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T23:35:04","slug":"why-did-the-supreme-court-just-reject-trumps-lawsuit-disqualifying-the-pa-mail-in-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=38211","title":{"rendered":"Why did the Supreme Court just reject Trump’s lawsuit disqualifying the PA mail-in votes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supreme Court ignores Trump lawsuit that would disqualify mail-in votes in Pennsylvania<\/h1>\n

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The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case that Republicans hoped would disqualify late-arriving mail ballots in Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign still plans on taking another case to the court, claiming widespread fraud.<\/p>\n

More than 2.6 million mail ballots were cast in Pennsylvania this election. Voters mailing in their ballots broke heavily for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, with nearly three times as many mail-in votes going to the former vice president. However, Republicans argued before the election that Pennsylvania\u2019s decision to allow the counting of ballots received after election day violated the state\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

In a 4-4 decision in October, the US Supreme Court allowed these late-arriving ballots to be counted and, in a follow-up order, asked that they be segregated from the rest. The Trump campaign hoped that this order would pave the way for these ballots to be discounted, but when the nation\u2019s highest court met on Monday, it decided not to take action on the case.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s\u00a0order list<\/a>\u00a0on Monday made no mention of the case. While the court could hear it when its justices meet again in December, Pennsylvania\u2019s counties must certify the results of the election on Monday.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania Republicans filed an emergency request in state court on Monday seeking to block this certification, two days after Republican Rep. Mike Kelly sued to invalidate mail-in ballots. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat and fierce critic of President Trump, responded that the Republicans joining Kelly\u2019s suit\u00a0\u201cshould be ashamed of themselves,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and accused them of plotting to\u00a0\u201csubvert the will of the people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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