Donald Trump wants US Supreme Court to overturn Pennsylvania election results
- Latest filing seeks to overturn three separate Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions with a single appeal
- The Supreme Court has already rejected efforts to overturn Biden’s victory in pivotal states
Undeterred by dismissals and admonitions from judges, US President Donald Trump’s campaign continued with its unprecedented efforts to overturn the results of the November 3 election, saying it had filed a new petition with the Supreme Court.
The petition seeks to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases having to do with mail-in ballots and asks the court to reject voters’ will and allow the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pick its own slate of electors.
While the prospect of the highest court in the land throwing out the results of a democratic election based on unfounded charges of voter fraud is extraordinarily unlikely, it wouldn’t change the outcome. President-elect Joe Biden would still be the winner even without Pennsylvania because of his wide margin of victory in the Electoral College.
“The petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating the appointment of electors committed to Joseph Biden and allowing the Pennsylvania General Assembly to select their replacements,” Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in a statement.
He is asking the court to move swiftly so it can rule before Congress meets on January 6 to tally the vote of the Electoral College, which decisively confirmed Biden’s win with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. But the justices are not scheduled to meet again, even privately, until January 8, two days after Congress counts votes.
Pennsylvania last month certified Biden as the winner of the state’s 20 Electoral College votes after three weeks of vote counting and a string of failed legal challenges.
