Supreme Court In No Rush To Weigh Trump Election Lawsuits By By
Matthew Santoni Law360 (January 11, 2021, 1:05 PM EST) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not speed up appeals challenging the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, effectively ending bids by President Donald Trump and his supporters to undo those states results before President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration.
Monday s order list said without comment or dissent that the justices denied expedited consideration of petitions for review in seven suits across the five states, meaning the court would not fast-track its decision on whether to hear the cases let alone decide them before the constitutionally mandated end of Trump s term Jan. 20.
Trump Takes Another Shot At Overturning Pa. Election Results By By
Matthew Santoni Law360 (December 21, 2020, 5:32 PM EST) President Donald Trump s reelection campaign is continuing its long-shot quest to overturn President-elect Joe Biden s win in Pennsylvania, asking the U.S. Supreme Court on Sunday to step in over multiple decisions by the state s high court related to the disqualification or observation of mail-in votes.
Even though overturning the Keystone State s 20 votes alone would not be enough to undo Biden s victory, Trump s campaign filed a petition to the Supreme Court claiming the state justices rulings had allowed enough additional votes to be counted to swing the state for Biden. Those rulings, the campaign said, had held that mail-in ballots couldn t be tossed based on signature comparisons, should be counted even if missing handwritten dates or addresses, and couldn t be closely scrutinized or challenged during the counting