3 Justices Balk At Decision To Snub Pa. Mail-In Ballot Case By By
Matthew Santoni Law360 (February 22, 2021, 10:53 AM EST) The U.S. Supreme Court said it would not hear Pennsylvania Republicans challenge to an extended deadline for 2020 mail-in ballots because it was moot, but Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch disagreed in a pair of dissents Monday, saying the case raised issues that should be decided before the next election.
The Supreme Court majority said the Republican Party of Pennsylvania s case against the state over the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania s three-day extension to the deadline for ballots mailed on Election Day to arrive and be counted was moot, since the 2020 election was over and there were not enough ballots that arrived within that window which had been set aside and not included in official results, per an earlier order from Justice Alito to undo President Joe Biden s win in the state. But Just
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 Lawyer In Philly Says He Was Used To Aid Crime By By
Matthew Santoni Law360 (January 7, 2021, 11:33 AM EST) Jerome M. Marcus of Marcus & Auerbach LLC, one of the attorneys who had represented President Donald Trump in his Philadelphia electoral challenge, told the federal court he wanted to withdraw from the now-dormant case Thursday, claiming he was used to perpetrate a crime.
Marcus motion to withdraw comes the day after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol and seeks out of the case where the president had challenged how close the campaign s observers could get to watch the opening, verification and tallying of votes in Philadelphia.
Pa. GOP Cite Lawsuit To Block State Senator s Swearing-In By By
Matthew Santoni Law360 (January 5, 2021, 6:22 PM EST) Republicans in Pennsylvania s state Senate temporarily evicted the lieutenant governor and refused to seat a Democrat from a suburban Pittsburgh district during the Legislature s first session of the year Tuesday because his opponent was still pursuing a federal lawsuit challenging his 69-vote win.
After a party-line vote in the Republican-majority Senate removed Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman from presiding over Tuesday s swearing-in ceremonies, Senate President Pro Tem Jake Corman ordered that incumbent state Sen. Jim Brewster be excluded from the reading of official votes and the swearing-in because his opponent, Nicole Ziccarelli, had a pending federal lawsuit challenging state court rulings that allowed the counting of ballots whose outer envelopes lacked handwritten dates or addresses.
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