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Trump’s latest attempt crashes into Supreme Court


The high court resolved to dismiss the complaint filed by a Trump ally, the Texas attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, to reverse the result of the presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

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EFE

11:21 PM / 11/12/2020-

The Supreme Court of the United States dealt this Friday, December 11, the coup de grace to the last attempt by the outgoing president, Donald Trump, to revoke the result of the elections of November 3, by rejecting a lawsuit filed by Texas.

The high court resolved to dismiss the complaint filed by a Trump ally, the Texas attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, to reverse the result of the presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

In its brief, the court noted that “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially recognizable interest in the manner in which other states conducted the elections. The rest of the motions are rejected as irrelevant.”

The statement did not reveal details about the deliberation of the nine Supreme Court justices (six conservatives and three progressives), although there was no dissenting opinion.

Two pro-lawsuit judges

Separately, conservative judges Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas indicated that the court has no discretion to deny the filing of a complaint brief in a case that falls within its original jurisdiction, thereby allowing the complaint to be processed.

Paxton had asked the Court to prevent Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all of them states where Biden won, endorse their victory in the Electoral College next Monday, claiming that their governors used the pandemic as a “pretext” to change the electoral rules and allowing a greater vote by mail, an option chosen by millions of Americans.

These four states have a total of 62 votes in the Electoral College, so that if it had positioned itself in favor of Paxton, the result of the elections could have changed, since Trump accumulates 232 votes and Biden 306, above the barrier. of 270 needed to reach the White House.

Trump himself, who has not recognized his defeat in the elections by alleging alleged electoral fraud without evidence, on Wednesday brought a motion to support the case of Texas before the Supreme Court.

Trump’s message

And this Friday he encouraged on Twitter before the High Court resolution that the court would adopt a decision that would benefit him: “If the Supreme Court shows great Wisdom and Courage, the American People will perhaps win the most important case in history, and our Electoral Process will be respected again! “Trump wrote.

On Thursday, a total of 106 Republican legislators in the US House of Representatives backed the Texas lawsuit by filing a brief of legal support (a figure known as “amicus curiae”) in the case.

In contrast, a coalition of 23 state attorneys general, led by the District of Columbia, did the same but to ask the Supreme Court to reject the demand.

On Tuesday, the court already rejected a lawsuit filed by the outgoing president’s allies to reverse Biden’s triumph in Pennsylvania.

In this way, the court has turned its back on Trump in his attempts to subvert the result of the elections, despite the fact that the president has contributed to consolidating the conservative majority in this court, with the appointment of three judges during his term: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump nominated Barrett at the end of last September to be confirmed in the Senate before the elections, in anticipation of an adjusted result of the same that could end in the Supreme Court.

However, neither Barrett, nor Gorsuch, nor Kavanaugh took a position on Friday with the president.

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