{"id":64466,"date":"2020-12-02T20:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=64466"},"modified":"2020-12-02T20:20:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:20:59","slug":"us-supreme-court-asked-to-block-biden-win-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=64466","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court asked to block Biden win in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"International Desk: Republicans attempting to undo President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by the highest court in the battleground state.<\/p>\n

In the request to the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania and the other plaintiffs are asking the court to prevent the state from certifying any contests from the Nov. 3 election, and undo any certifications already made, such as Biden\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n

They maintain that Pennsylvania\u2019s expansive vote-by-mail law is unconstitutional because it required a constitutional amendment to authorize its provisions.<\/p>\n

Biden beat President Donald Trump by more than 80,000 votes in Pennsylvania, a state Trump had won in 2016.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania\u2019s Supreme Court on Saturday night threw out the lawsuit, including an order by a lower court judge blocking the certification of any uncertified races.<\/p>\n

Justices cited the law\u2019s 180-day time limit on filing legal challenges to its provisions, as well as the staggering demand that an entire election be overturned retroactively.<\/p>\n

In the state\u2019s courts, Kelly and the other Republican plaintiffs had sought to either throw out the 2.5 million mail-in ballots submitted under the law \u2014 most of them by Democrats \u2014 or to wipe out the election results and direct the state\u2019s Republican-controlled Legislature to pick Pennsylvania\u2019s presidential electors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International Desk: Republicans attempting to undo President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s victory in Pennsylvania asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to take up their lawsuit, three days after it was thrown out by the highest court in the battleground state. In the request to the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":64467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n