: US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn Bidens win (Lead) #IndiaNEWS #International Washington, Dec 9 | The US Supreme Court has rejected a challenge against President-elect Joe Bidens victory in

US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn Bidens win (Lead) #IndiaNEWS #International
Washington, Dec 9 | The US Supreme Court has rejected a challenge against President-elect Joe Bidens victory in Pennsylvania.
Republicans in the state wanted to overturn certification of the result, but justices rejected the request in a one sentence ruling, the BBC reported.
It is a blow to President Donald Trump, who has previously suggested without evidence that the election result would be settled in the Supreme Court.
Trump lost his bid for re-election last month.
Since then, he and his supporters have launched dozens of lawsuits questioning the vote results. None have come close to overturning Bidens victory.
The Democratic candidate defeated Trump by a margin of 306 to 232 votes in the US electoral college, which chooses the US president. Biden won seven million more votes than the president nationwide.
Pennsylvanias Governor Tom Wolf has already certified Bidens victory in the state. Under the rules of the electoral college, the states 20 electors will meet on December 14 to officially cast their votes for the president-elect.
Republicans in the state, however, wanted to overturn Wolfs certification. The states top court had rejected their bid last week, which made them appeal to the US Supreme Court in Washington.
Lawyers for the state and Governor Wolf criticised the case as fundamentally frivolous.
No court has ever issued an order nullifying a Governors certification of presidential election results, they wrote.
And on Tuesday the Supreme Court dismissed the suit. The one-sentence ruling did not even cover the Republicans allegations, reading simply: The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.
Before, during and after the election, Trump has made unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud and suggested that the result would eventually be decided in the Supreme Court.
The president appointed three of the courts justices during his single term in office. Most recently, he controversially placed conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett on the bench after the death of the courts most liberal justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, just weeks before the election.
Source: IANS
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