People listen to the speakers during a Stop the Steal rally in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, January 5, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to get the court to quickly consider the challenges to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the November election. The move effectively closed the door to the president’s latest legal strategy to undo his defeat.
The court issued an order this morning denying prompt consideration of the lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign challenging election procedures in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Similarly, he denied a request by conspiracy theorist L. Lin Wood to expedite his election challenge in Georgia, as well as other demands filed by Trump’s allies.
The court’s action was widely expected and was not accompanied by any explanation or opinion, as is typical in these denials. No dissent was reported from any of the nine court judges.
Judges returned from their winter recess to convene a private conference on Friday. The list of orders released Monday is the first since last week’s DC riot, in which a crowd of Trump supporters tried to delay certification of Biden’s victory over Trump in the Electoral College.
The court had made it clear that it would not prosecute cases according to the timeline Trump requested even before issuing the order.
For example, in Trump v. Boockvar, one of the cases challenging Pennsylvania’s election proceedings, the president’s attorney, John Eastman, urged the court in a December letter to take up the case before Jan. 6, when Congress met to certify the electorate. University account.
Eastman wrote that if the court did not act before Jan. 20, when Biden will be inaugurated, “it will be impossible to repair the election results” that included ballots that he said were issued illegally under the rules approved by the court. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Trump has furiously disputed his loss to Biden in a way unprecedented in modern U.S. history. On Monday, Democrats are expected in the House of Representatives to present a dismissal article based on their actions at a rally ahead of the Capitol siege, in which he urged supporters to “fight” and his lawyer, the former mayor of New York’s Rudy Giuliani called for a “combat trial.”
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