HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot in the latest lawsuit filed by Republicans attempting to thwart President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state.
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The state Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, threw out the three-day-old order, saying the underlying lawsuit was filed months after the law allowed for challenges to Pennsylvania’s expansive year-old mail-in voting law.
The state’s attorney general, Democrat Josh Shapiro, called the court’s decision “another win for Democracy.”
The week-old lawsuit, led by Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania, had challenged the state’s mail-in voting law as unconstitutional.
As a remedy, Kelly and the other Republican plaintiffs had sought to either throw out the 2.5 million mail-in ballots submitted under the law — most of them by Democrats — or to wipe out the election results and direct the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to pick Pennsylvania’s presidential electors.
Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, elected as a Republican in 2009, had issued the order Wednesday to halt certification of any remaining contests, including apparently contests for Congress.
A day earlier, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said he had certified Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania. Biden beat President Donald Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state Trump had won in 2016.
Wolf had appealed McCullough’s decision to the state Supreme Court, saying there was no “conceivable justification” for it.
It’s going to the Supreme Court.
Wisconsin recount demanded by trump results in MORE Biden votes! LOL
It certainly seems that Donald Trump is a loser. He should start packing ASAP.
If he had any sense he would flee to a country that we don’t have an extradition treaty with.
Donald Trump and his loyal Trumpanzees are losing biggly under the guidance of Rudy Giuliani.
the moon is not yet full but 0bama’s lapdogs are barking loudly in this comments section!
Republican fail once again to subvert Democracy. Republicans are once again exposed as a band of hypocrytes who lack courage to stand against a wannabe tyrant. The party that once stood for balanced bugets, free trade, moral leadership and democracy is now nothing more than a band of loser populists. America is stronger than Trump and his attempts to subvert the will of the people. G-d bless America and may G-d keep it safe from Trump and his Republican enablers.