PA Supreme Court To Consider Latest Trump Suit Over 8K Ballots

HARRISBURG, PA —The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Wednesday it will consider the latest Trump campaign suit contesting more than 8,000 mail-in ballots. The decision to listen to the complaint comes the day after the high court ruled that the Philadelphia Board of Elections did not violate state law in keeping poll observers up to 35 yards away from the ballot counting process.

The case will be the latest heard in federal and state court in Pennsylvania as President Trump attempts to reverse his election defeat to President-elect Joe Biden.

Specifically, the new case contests ballots in Philadelphia that had certain blank fields, like a missing handwritten address or name. The Trump campaign wants these ballots thrown out.

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which has five liberal justices and two conservatives, agreed to listen to the case at the request of Philadelphia city officials. The Trump campaign first sought to have an appellate court hear the case, according to CBS.

A hearing date has not yet been set.

The language in the question put before the court to consider states that "no fraud or irregularity has been alleged." This is despite repeated claims by President Trump, Rudy Giuliani and others that Democratic-run counties in Pennsylvania and other places around the country engaged in widespread fraud. These claims have not been supported by evidence.

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This hearing is distinct from the case ongoing in federal district court in Pennsylvania, where Trump's team has filed a lengthy complaint alleging that Pennsylvania violated the equal protection clause by treating voters in Democratic areas differently than in Republican areas.

A federal judge canceled an evidentiary hearing in this case that had been scheduled for Thursday, and received many of the Trump camp's allegations skeptically in a six-hour long Tuesday hearing.

Biden's margin of victory in Pennsylvania was more than 80,000.