Trump loses another election court challenge

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has dismissed a lower court’s order that was preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests from the disputed November 3 election, dealing another blow to Republican President Donald Trump in his bid to overturn the results.

A Republican lawsuit attempting to thwart Joe Biden’s media projected victory in the battleground state had sought to invalidate mail-in ballots there where the Democrat won by about 81,000 votes -- or to throw out all votes and let the state's legislature decide the winner.

According to Press TV, on Saturday, the court dismissed both claims in a unanimous decision, calling the second one an "extraordinary proposition that the court disenfranchise all 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the general election."

“They have failed to allege that even a single mail-in ballot was fraudulently cast or counted,” justice David Wecht wrote in a concurring opinion.

The lawsuit argued that a 2019 Pennsylvania law allowing universal mail-in voting was unconstitutional.

The judges maintained that the Republican November 21 challenge to the law was filed too late, coming more than a year after it was enacted and with the election results "becoming seemingly apparent."

On November 24, Pennsylvania officially certified Biden's victory there, but the suit, led by Pennsylvania Republican congressman Mike Kelly, had also sought to stop certification.

The high court’s decision follows a long line of similar ones, including a ruling on Friday in which a federal appeals court flatly dismissed Trump's claim that the election was not fair and refused to freeze Biden's win in Pennsylvania.

Trump, who has refused to give up on his claims of fraud in the election, has promised to continue his legal fight.

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