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The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to announce in as soon as a month whether it will hear the election case of U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, who started his legal fight against the results of the presidential race within weeks after fellow Republican Donald Trump lost the White House to Democrat Joe Biden. If the high court refuses to hear the case, the rejection will mark the end of another of Kelly s legal attempts to challenge universal, no-excuses mail-in voting in Pennsylvania as unconstitutional and thus illegal, in Kelly s words. If the Supreme Court decides to hear the case, Kelly s claims will remain alive, raising the possibility that he could prevail and upend the same mail-in voting system that the GOP-controlled General Assembly, through Act 77, adopted with widespread bipartisan support in 2019. ....
Republican congressman who represents Erie says Trump speech did not incite insurrection, says impeachment process rushed: "We ve had no discussion." ....
Maryland Rep. Andy Harris condemned the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, but he also had another message: It shouldn t distract from the fraud he insists occurred in the election of Democrat Joe Biden despite numerous courts ruling otherwise. On the House floor and in statements, the Republican lawmaker said he voted to object to the certification of Biden s victory over President Donald Trump early Thursday after the Capitol chaos because he believes more investigation is needed into the election. He was not alone. Returning hours after the attack on the Capitol and working through the night, both the House and Senate voted to accept Arizona’s results, but six GOP senators and 121 GOP House members objected to the vote despite the unfounded nature of the claims of fraud. ....
Kelly pursued that unprecedented goal to the very end early on Thursday morning. He was the last person in the House of Representatives to object to the certification of the Electoral College vote in Pennsylvania or any other state. Kelly, of Butler, whose 16th Congressional District includes Erie, kept going despite repeated losses in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He kept going on Thursday morning even after a vote in the Senate had officially doomed his effort, which was all but certain to fail from the start. He kept going despite the turmoil that had besieged the U.S. Capitol hours earlier, on Wednesday afternoon and evening, leaving the nation rattled and Congressional leaders, Republican and Democrat, calling for unchallenged certification of the Electoral College vote for President-elect Joe Biden, a Democrat. ....
USA TODAY Network - Pennsylvania photojournalists Published 5:22 pm UTC Dec. 27, 2020 No one can deny that 2020 was a year to remember, even if we sometimes want to forget it. But how will it be remembered in the Erie region? Allow us to give a glimpse through the best photos of the year taken by the Erie Times-News photojournalists. You ll find here images of the topics and issues we re all too familiar with, but also those moments of people, places and events you might have missed. Over the past year, they tell the story and weave the community fabric of northwestern Pennsylvania. ....