The US Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a bid by Texas to overturn the results of the US presidential election, which Republican US President Donald Trump lost to Democrat US president-elect Joe Biden, in a fresh setback for the president.
The long-shot suit lodged late on Tuesday against four states key in the Nov. 3 vote — Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — challenged Biden’s victory in each jurisdiction.
However, the Supreme Court, made up of nine justices including three appointed by Trump, said that Texas — which voted for the president — “has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.”
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The court’s decision “is an important reminder that we are a nation of laws, and though some may bend to the desire of a single individual, the courts will not,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel wrote on Twitter.
Biden spokesman Mike Gwin said the ruling was “no surprise.”
“Dozens of judges, election officials from both parties and Trump’s own attorney general have dismissed his baseless attempts to deny that he lost the election,” he said.
The Texas suit had been seen as audacious and legally unsound, given that no one state has any legal right to interfere in another’s voting processes.
Even so, it was backed by 106 Republican lawmakers and 17 state attorneys general.
Texas alleged that the results in the other four states were “unconstitutional” because of their heavy use of “fraud-prone” mail-in votes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It offered no proof of significant fraud and did not challenge the use of mailed ballots in states Trump won.
The suit cited numerous alleged examples of potential fraud already rejected by lower courts.
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said the allegations were “sound.”
“They have to be tested, but that’s what the court is for. They can’t just dismiss it like that,” he told Fox News.
White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox that the court “dodged” and “hid behind procedure.”
In a tweet following the verdict, Trump said the court had “let us down” and accused it of having “No Wisdom, No Courage!”
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