Politics President Trump seeks to join Supreme Court lawsuit challenging election results in 4 key states

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to overturn the 2020 election results by tossing out votes cast in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and allowing state legislatures to appoint new electors.

Attorneys for the president asked the justices to let Trump intervene in a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and endorsed by 17 other Republican state attorneys general that claims the four battleground states illegally expanded mail-in balloting that helped President-elect Joe Biden.

© Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump on Dec. 5, 2020, in Valdosta, Georgia.

Trump's legal papers sought to back up the claim by citing various election results from states and counties that he won and lost, then adding: "These things just don’t normally happen, and a large percentage of the American people know that something is deeply amiss."

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued four US battleground states at the US Supreme Court over alleged election irregularities. Political scientists and academics have discussed whether the lawsuit could change the outcome of the election and why the Supreme Court has become the

The US Supreme Court has rejected the Trump team's motion challenging certification of The lawsuit argues that the state officials usurped the authority of state legislatures when they enacted Trump 's legal team has filed numerous lawsuits in the key states , where they believe election fraud

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But the president did not present evidence of fraud, asserting that "it is only necessary to demonstrate that the elections in the defendant states materially deviated from the 'manner' of choosing electors established by their respective state Legislatures."

And to back up his request to intervene in the long-shot lawsuit, he cited partisan polls purporting to show that Americans distrust the election results that gave Biden 306 electoral votes, the same number Trump won in 2016.

"The fact that nearly half of the country believes the election was stolen should come as no surprise," his attorneys wrote. "President Trump prevailed on nearly every historical indicia of success in presidential elections."

Texas AG asks Supreme Court to overturn Trump's losses in key states. Don't hold your breath.

Five weeks after Election Day and with states locking down electoral votes, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has asked the high court to step in.But after deciding one presidential election 20 years ago and suffering withering criticism for choosing sides, even a revamped court with three Trump-appointed justices is not likely to do so again.

President Donald Trump faces a critical week in his last ditch effort to cling to power as key states are on the brink of certifying their election results In another loss, Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump campaign's effort to block the counting of certain absentee ballots

Donald Trump called on the Supreme Court to have the "courage" to overturn the results of the election , repeating claims he won the key swing states that tipped the projected results in favour of Joe Biden.

Paxton, a staunch Trump backer who has frequently sued in support of the president's policies, told the Supreme Court Tuesday that officials in the four states used "executive fiat or friendly lawsuits" to expand voting by mail and to weaken signature verification and witness requirements meant to protect ballot integrity.

"By ignoring both state and federal law, these states have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but of Texas and every other state that held lawful elections,” the state attorney general said.

Officials in all four states had criticized Texas' filing as an irresponsible publicity stunt that recycled false and disproven claims of election irregularities.

"These fact-less, baseless 'lawsuits' to stir confusion and doubt in our systems are un-American, and we should not allow this circus to continue," Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said.

Trump says Texas’s challenge to his election loss is “the big one.” It’s almost certain to fail.

Texas and 17 other red states are asking the Supreme Court to block Biden’s win. The problem is their utter lack of strong arguments.“Our Country needs a victory!” Trump wrote.

Donald Trump is continuing his attempts to overturn the result of the US presidential election , but he has In the same lawsuit , President Trump 's team has also alleged that more than 680,000 Most challenges dropped or settled in other states . The election results in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada

The Trump campaign sues over vote counts in the key states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Donald Trump and Joe Biden are each confident of victory in the US presidential election , as the The lawsuit was rejected by Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Thursday, Fox News reported.

Contributing: Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman

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