Trump continues fight to overturn election result
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has said that his campaign will join an improbable case before the US Supreme Court challenging election results in Pennsylvania and other states.
Mr Trump’s latest move comes after the Supreme Court rejected a last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of US President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
The court has asked for responses by today.
Out of the roughly 50 lawsuits filed around the country contesting the November 3 vote, Mr Trump has lost more than 35 and the others are pending, according to an Associated Press tally.
The suit from the Texas attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, demands that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin be invalidated. That is enough, if set aside, to swing the election to Mr Trump.
Mr Paxton’s suit repeats a litany of false, disproven and unsupported allegations about postal votes and voting in the four battleground states.
Mr Trump said: “We will be intervening in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory.”
Legal experts dismissed Mr Paxton’s filing as the latest and perhaps longest legal shot since election day.
The Supreme Court refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Governor Tom Wolf has already certified Mr Biden’s victory and the state’s 20 electors are to meet on December 14 to cast their votes for the former vice president.
Mr Biden won 306 electoral votes, so even if Pennsylvania’s results had been in doubt, he still would have more than the 270 electoral votes needed to become president.
Shortly before tweeting about joining Mr Paxton’s case, Mr Trump distanced himself from the Pennsylvania challenge, saying it was not his.
He said: “The case everyone has been waiting for is the State’s case with Texas and numerous others joining.”
The court’s decision not to intervene in Pennsylvania came in a suit led by Republican congressman Mike Kelly and cong r e s s i o na l c a ndi d a t e Sean Parnell, who lost to Democrat representative Conor Lamb.