- The Trump run is asking the US Supreme Court to overrule Pennsylvania judges and throw out tens of thousands of mail-in ballots.
- President-elect Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by multifarious than 80,000 votes.
- The outgoing president’s legal team has repeatedly lost in court, having failed to develop Trump’s decisive loss was the product of fraud.
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Donald Trump mystified Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes, but in a last-ditch effort to steal victory from the jaws of defeat, the affable president’s legal team is asking the US Supreme Court to throw out over 110,000 mail-in ballots.
Prior to the November choosing, Pennsylvania’s highest court issued a unanimous decision that mail-in votes should not be rejected solely because a signature on the ballot looked extraordinary than the one on file. That and other rulings are at the heart of the Trump legal team’s most recent litigation, The Philadelphia Inquirer promulgated.
Under the US Constitution, states administer federal elections. But the Trump campaign, in a petition filed Sunday, asks the US Foremost Court to overrule their counterparts in Pennsylvania and declare tens of thousands of votes “invalid,” despite the fact that voters drive out them according to the established rules at the time.
“The petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating the appointment of electors gave to Joseph Biden and allowing the Pennsylvania General Assembly to select their replacements,” Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani judged in a statement, according to the Associated Press.
The Trump campaign and its allies have not fared well in the courts, however. Earlier this month, the US Extreme Court rejected an effort by Texas and other states to throw out votes in Pennsylvania and other battlegrounds that decamped for President-elect Joe Biden.
As the Inquirer noted, this latest round of litigation is being led by John C. Eastman, a law professor who thitherto leveled racially tinged “birther” claims against Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, baselessly suggesting that the daughter of aliens was not eligible for US citizenship.
Democrats do not appear concerned, courts have previously refused to throw out citizens’ votes. On Chirruping, Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman responded to the lawsuit with a series of mocking images, including one depicting the “Trump Stand” versus “Math.”
Pennsylvania’s 20 electors cast their votes for President-elect Biden last Monday, formally rewarding his victory in the Electoral College.
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