The US Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit from Texas designed to prevent Trump’s election defeat. It is the next serious setback for the current president – and probably the final one.
The US Supreme Court has given President Donald Trump another defeat in his fight against his defeat in the presidential election: The Supreme Court rejected a complaint by the US state of Texas against the election results in four swing states that evening.
The judges declined to deal with it because Texas did not have the right to interfere in other states’ electoral organizations. In Texas, Trump had won the majority in the presidential election on November 3rd. The state filed a complaint against the official election results in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Tuesday. The results there are “unconstitutional”, since “fraud-prone” postal votes were counted on a large scale.
Many Republicans had supported the lawsuit
Trump had high hopes for the complaint and said it was “very solid”. He petitioned the Supreme Court to be allowed to comment on the Texas-initiated proceedings. The complaint was supported by 106 Republican MPs and 18 attorneys-general.
The complaint had little chance of success, as one state was not allowed to interfere in the election process in other states. In addition, Texas did not provide clear evidence of election fraud or filed a lawsuit against election results in states with high absentee ballots where Trump won.
Conservative majority in the Supreme Court does not help Trump
Trump has repeatedly voiced hope that the Supreme Court could help him fight his election defeat. In the Supreme Court, the conservative camp has a clear majority of six to three judges. Three of the lawyers were appointed by Trump, most recently the arch-conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett.
Trump suffered a heavy defeat in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The Supreme Court dismissed, without giving any reason, an urgent motion seeking allies of the elected president to overturn the election result in the key state of Pennsylvania.
Trump has been talking for weeks about alleged electoral fraud that is said to have helped his Democratic challenger Joe Biden to victory. The Trump camp, however, failed with a series of lawsuits against the election. All states have now certified the election results. In the election, Biden secured 306 out of a total of 538 voters who ultimately elect the president. The former vice president needed at least 270 electoral women and men for an election victory. On January 20, Biden is due to be sworn in as the 46th President in US history.
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