People listen to speakers at a Stop the Steal meeting before the Supreme Court on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected attempts by President Donald Trump and his allies to prompt the court to consider the challenges to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the November election. The move effectively closed the door on the president’s last-ditch legal strategy to undo his defeat.
The court issued an injunction in the morning denying the expedited handling of lawsuits filed by Trump’s campaign against election procedures in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
It similarly turned down a request by conservative conspiracy theorist L. Lin Wood to hasten his challenge to the Georgia election, as well as other lawsuits brought by Trump allies.
The court’s action was widely anticipated and was not accompanied by any explanation or opinion, as is typical with such denials. There were no known dissent from any of the court’s nine judges.
The judges returned from their winter recess to meet for a closed conference on Friday. The order list released Monday is the first since the DC riot last week, in which a crowd of Trump supporters sought to delay certification of Biden’s victory over Trump in the Electoral College.
The court had made it clear that it would not handle the cases on the schedule Trump had asked for, even before issuing the warrant.
For example, in Trump against Boockvar, one of the cases challenging Pennsylvania election procedures, the president’s attorney, John Eastman, urged the court in December to hear the case before January 6, when Congress gathered to certify the elections. College census.
Eastman wrote that if the court does not act before January 20, when Biden will be inaugurated, “it will be impossible to recover the election results,” including ballots he alleges were unlawfully issued based on rules approved by the Supreme Court. from Pennsylvania.
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