U.S. Supreme Court asked to block Biden's win in Pennsylvania
By: The Associated Press Staff
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U.S. Supreme Court asked to block Biden's win in Pennsylvania
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden departs a news conference after introducing his nominees and appointees to economic policy posts at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
HARRISBURG, PA. -- Republicans attempting to undo U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by the highest court in the battleground state.
In the request to the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania and the other plaintiffs are asking the court to prevent the state from certifying any contests from the Nov. 3 election, and undo any certifications already made, such as Biden's victory.
They maintain that Pennsylvania's expansive vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional because it required a constitutional amendment to authorize its provisions.
Biden beat U.S. President Donald Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state Trump had won in 2016.
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Saturday night threw out the lawsuit, including an order by a lower court judge blocking the certification of any uncertified races.
Justices cited the law's 180-day time limit on filing legal challenges to its provisions, as well as the staggering demand that an entire election be overturned retroactively.
In the state's courts, Kelly and the other Republican plaintiffs had sought to either throw out the 2.5 million mail-in ballots submitted under the law -- most of them by Democrats -- or to wipe out the election results and direct the state's Republican-controlled Legislature to pick Pennsylvania's presidential electors.
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I am really looking forward to the judgment of the SCOTUS on this, because I think the SCOTUS has already decided that the extended ballot receipt time was okay, and especially since I believe it will be the deciding factor on whether Amy Barrett is no more than a toady for Trump, or is genuinely an unbiased jurist.
Buzz , they can be asked to look into it , the choice is theirs to hear the case or not . if they choose not to after review , the lower courts rulings stand , its that simple , they can act or not act, im of the mind they will not act and uphold lower courts rulings by not taking the case.
And I do not expect them to hear this case.
Okay, if they don't that's fine with me.
After reading the Amicus briefs for and against certiorari, I don't think that the SCOTUS will hear the case. The Pennsylvania AG did a very good argument, especially about the Republican Party not having standing.
OK