U.S. Supreme Court Tosses Multi-State Election Suit Against PA

PENNSYLVANIA — The ceaseless effort from some Republicans nationwide to overturn the results of the 2020 election was dealt another blow Friday, as the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit asking them to intervene. It's the latest in a long list of court defeats for President Donald Trump's campaign, which has filed dozens of lawsuits nationwide over the past month.

"Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot," the court wrote.

The suit was filed earlier this week by Texas against Pennsylvania and three other battleground states which President-elect Joe Biden won: Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan. President Trump and 17 other states joined the suit days later.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro called the case, which repeated unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and reiterated unfounded accusations that the states broke the law by changing the election code, "legally laughable."

"Texas brings to the court only discredited allegations and conspiracy theories," Shapiro said Friday. "Texas asks this court to contort its original jurisdiction jurisprudence in an election where millions cast ballots under extraordinary circumstances, sometimes risking their health & safety to do so."

The decision comes from a court with a new and decisive 6-3 conservative majority, following the recent death of longtime liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Pennsylvania filed a 170-page briefing to the U.S. Supreme Court in response to the suit, addressing both the claims of fraud that have been dismissed by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania, but also questioning Texas' standing to bring the suit.

"Texas has not suffered harm simply because it dislikes the result of the election, and nothing in the text, history, or structure of the Constitution supports Texas’s view that it can dictate the manner in which four other states run their elections," Shapiro added.

Republicans said that Texas and other states were impacted and had standing to bring the suit because the results of the 2020 election were "skewed" by the actions of Democratic officials in those four battleground states.

“To restore trust in the integrity of our election process, we must tirelessly defend its security and hold accountable those who discarded our Constitution for their own convenience," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. "Texas is proud to have these states by its side in shining the bright light of justice.”

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The lawsuit stated that its goal was to have the U.S. Supreme Court throw out the election results in those four battleground states, and instead allow the respective state legislatures to appoint the winner.

Legally, the brief requested a temporary block of the results of the election in those states, so that the U.S. Supreme Court could hold an expedited hearing on the case.

President Trump, earlier Friday, had urged the nation's highest court to "save the USA."

"Now that the Biden Administration will be a scandal plagued mess for years to come, it is much easier for the Supreme Court of the United States to follow the Constitution and do what everybody knows has to be done," he said on Twitter. "They must show great Courage & Wisdom."

In addition to the 17 states which joined Texas in the suit, 125 Republican members of U.S. Congress also filed supporting amicus briefs, widely seen as a display of loyalty to the president.

The Electoral College will meet to vote on Monday.