High court refuses to speed Trump suits

In a series of unsigned orders Monday, the Supreme Court refused requests from President Donald Trump and his allies to expedite consideration of various challenges to the results of the presidential election. The court will consider whether to hear the cases in the ordinary course in the next month or two, but the orders in effect made the challenges moot.

Trump had hoped that the court, which includes three of his appointees, would overturn the results of the election. But the court, notably in a terse order rejecting an audacious lawsuit in which Texas sought to sue four other states, has consistently rejected the requests.