Supreme Court Junks Trump's Final Election Challenge
Former President Donald Trump has earlier asked the Supreme Court to hear his case against the Wisconsin Elections Commission. It was the last of the three cases challenging his loss in the November presidential election.
According to Fox News, the Supreme Court on Monday denied Trump's appeal challenging thousands of absentee ballots filed in Wisconsin. The high court rejected Trump's request without commenting on the order.
In his appeal, Trump alleged that Wisconsin election officials had violated the state law by using "unauthorized, illegal absentee voting drop boxes." He further claimed that the officials allowed poll workers to correct absentee ballot witness certificates.
"The narrow window in which legal disputes may be resolved following a presidential election weighs heavily in favor of applying the 'capable of repetition' doctrine to resolve issues capable of reoccurring," Trump said in his Feb. 9 brief as Fox News reported.
The brief added that non-legislative state actors might be encouraged to make even more last-minute changes to state election laws in future presidential elections.
The Supreme Court has disagreed with the said position, resulting in the rejection of Trump's appeal to hear the case. The high court's decision came weeks after it denied some other election challenges, which include the Pennsylvania state court ruling on the extension of the deadline for accepting absentee ballots.
Trump's Legal Hurdles For an Election Win
Trump and his campaign team have a record of unsuccessful legal challenges hurled to overturn the presidential election results in some states won by President Joe Biden.
The lawsuits all argued that the states and counties violated election results. Republicans filed lawsuits in local, state, and federal courts in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, which were all states that Biden won.
Republicans have also filed direct appeals to the Supreme Court that were all rejected, Business Insider reported.
Trump and his allied lawmakers have received 42 losses in the election cases they filed: three losses in Supreme Court, 13 in Pennsylvania, four in Nevada, five in Georgia, five in Michigan, four in Arizona, seven in Wisconsin, and one in New Mexico.
Before 2021, Trump has vowed to push forward with legal challenges contesting the presidential election results.
"We keep going and we're going to continue to move forward," Trump said in The Federalist report. Trump added that they had filed several lawsuits challenging the election results. He maintained that the November presidential election was rigged.
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Biden's Presidency
Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on Jan. 20, together with Kamala Harris as his Vice President.
Prior to Biden's inauguration, Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol, which left five people dead and shook the groundwork of American democracy.
Months after the attack, law enforcement authorities are still wary of another possible attack that might take place at the U.S. Capitol. Some followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory believed that Trump was cheated out of his second term.
Capitol Police earlier said they had obtained information that showed a possible plot to breach the Capitol on Mar. 4, when some QAnon followers and supporters of Trump predict that he will be inaugurated for a new presidential term, AFP News reported.
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