The high court acted without comment or noted dissent in the matter.
The Supreme Court has rejected a bid by a Republican member of Congress and other GOP activists to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.
In an order Tuesday afternoon, the justices turned down the emergency request from Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) and two other House candidates to decertify the results of last month’s election in the Keystone State.
The high court acted without comment or noted dissent in the matter on the last day under federal law for states to submit their slates of presidential electors without being subject to potential contest in Congress.
Kelly’s suit, which was rejected by Pennsylvania courts, argued that legislation the state adopted last year allowing for no-excuse, mail-in voting violated the state constitution and that the results of last month’s vote should therefore be invalidated.
Critics said the request for the Supreme Court to take up the case was ill-founded because the justices do not typically step in to enforce state law provisions. They also faulted Kelly for waiting more than a year — and until after the hard-fought election was complete — to raise the legal challenge.
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The Supreme Court has rejected a bid by a Republican member of Congress and other GOP activists to overturn Joe Biden’s win in Pennsylvaniahttps://t.co/3cnn3vUNb3
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Smartest play of the week: Ted Cruz volunteering to argue Pennsylvania case before SCOTUS knowing that SCOTUS would never take it. Cruz looks like heroic team player. And he has option to express disappointment with SCOTUS or Trump’s legal team as political circumstances warrant.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) December 9, 2020
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