US Supreme Court rejects Texas bid to overturn Biden victory

The US Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to nullify election results in four battleground states, delivering a blow to the legal campaign waged by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Democratic candidate Joe Biden's projected election win

The Supreme Court ruling on Friday was a repudiation to Trump, as well as the 18 Republican state attorneys general and 126 House Republicans who had backed the Texas lawsuit, which was described as the most coordinated effort to overturn an election in recent American history.

Texas had asked the Supreme Court to review the election results in four states carried by Democratic Joe Biden: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The Supreme Court rejected the bid, ruling that Texas did not have legal standing to bring the case.

"Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections," the court said.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking the justices to throw out the voting results in the four states over their expanded use of mail-in voting during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Presently, evidence of material illegality in the 2020 general elections held in Defendant States grows daily," the Texas suit charged.

“Texas’s request to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters who reasonably relied upon the law at the time of the election does great damage to the public interest,” Pennsylvania argued in a response filed Thursday afternoon. “Nothing in the text, history, or structure of the Constitution supports Texas’s view that it can dictate the manner in which four sister States run their elections, and Texas suffered no harm because it dislikes the results in those elections.”

Sasse: Court 'closed the book' on election 'nonsense'

Republican Senator Ben Sasse said on Friday that the Supreme Court "closed the book on the nonsense" by rejecting the Texas push to overturn Biden's election win. 

"Since Election Night, a lot of people have been confusing voters by spinning Kenyan Birther-type, ‘Chavez rigged the election from the grave’ conspiracy theories, but every American who cares about the rule of law should take comfort that the Supreme Court — including all three of President Trump’s picks — closed the book on the nonsense," Sasse said in a statement. 

Sasse is one of the first congressional Republicans to react to the Supreme Court's decision. 

20 more Republicans, including McCarthy, join Texas bid to overturn the US election

The list of House Republicans formally challenging the presidential election results jumped on Friday, as 20 more lawmakers endorsed the Texas lawsuit alleging widespread voter fraud.

Twenty states, however, had filed objections, describing Texas’ request as unconstitutional, unfair and outrageous.

"If the Supreme Court shows great Wisdom and Courage, the American People will win perhaps the most important case in history, and our Electoral Process will be respected again!" Trump tweeted hours before the ruling on Friday. 

If the Supreme Court shows great Wisdom and Courage, the American People will win perhaps the most important case in history, and our Electoral Process will be respected again!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020

Biden defeated President Trump in the four battleground states in the 2020 election. The Republican president had won all four of them in 2016.

Local, state and national election officials have declared the November election “the most secure” in American history but the Trump campaign claims widespread fraud has occurred across the country.

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