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By Jon Delano<\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) \u2013 U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler of Peters has joined other Republican members of Congress in filing a legal brief in support of the latest election court challenge.<\/p>\n
This one was filed by the Texas attorney general who has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to toss out the results in four states that voted for President-elect Biden: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia.<\/p>\n
KDKA political editor Jon Delano asked the local congressman why he was siding with Texas over his home state.<\/p>\n
Delano:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cDo you think Texas should have any role at all in deciding how we conduct elections in Pennsylvania?\u201d Pennsylvania says it has followed the Constitution, and no court has found otherwise.<\/p>\n But Reschenthaler says it did not follow the Constitution when the high court allowed certain mail-in ballots to be counted.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Pennsylvania and other states, you had the Supreme Court, in some instant lieutenant governors, that unilaterally acted to rewrite the law. That is what is unconstitutional,\u201d says Reschenthaler.<\/p>\n The state Supreme Court did allow 10,000 ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they were received by county election bureaus within 72 hours of the election.<\/p>\n But disqualifying those ballots would not give the state to Trump.<\/p>\n So the Trump campaign wants to toss out all mail-in ballots cast.<\/p>\n Delano:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cDo you believe that my vote which was cast by mail on time according to state law should be tossed out along with 2.5 million others that cast a vote this way in Pennsylvania?\u201d But that claim is about the late-arriving ballots.<\/p>\n When pressed about the on-time mail-in ballots, Reschenthaler said, \u201cRight. No, Jon, I think it\u2019s very simple. Every legal vote should be counted and every illegal vote should not be counted.\u201d<\/p>\n This Texas lawsuit appears to be President Trump\u2019s last-ditch effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court involved in deciding the presidential election.<\/p>\n
\nReschenthaler:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cWell, Jon, I\u2019m actually part of that lawsuit. I\u2019m filing an amicus brief to that lawsuit, and here\u2019s why I am doing that: We\u2019ve got to have states following the U.S. Constitution when it comes to election law.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nReschenthaler:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWell, I think the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania usurped the power of the General Assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n