The Supreme Court on Monday denied the former President Trump
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In an unsigned order without notorious dissent, the judges refused to accept the Trump lawsuit, claiming that Wisconsin election officials violated the constitution by expanding the absent vote amid the global coronavirus pandemic.
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Trump sued in Wisconsin more than a month after Biden won the state by just over 20,000 votes.
His lawsuit alleged that policies put in place by the Wisconsin Election Commission to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus – such as the establishment of absentee ballot boxes – illegally usurped the state legislature’s exclusive power over electoral rules.
When he filed the lawsuit in late December, Trump asked the court to speed up a review of his case before the January 6 Congressional meeting to certify the results, a request that the judges denied.
That joint session of Congress was later interrupted when a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. Trump’s comments to the crowd just before the riot fueled his second impeachment in the House. He was later acquitted in the Senate.
The court’s denial of Trump’s appeal on Monday means that fewer than four judges agreed to hear his case.
Several of the court’s most conservative judges had previously indicated an interest in answering questions about what the Constitution says about how electoral authority is allocated within states.
As is typical practice, however, the judges did not provide the public on Monday with a complete picture of how they voted on the petition or their reasoning.
Some law scholars believe that the January 6 uprising on Capitol Hill dissuaded the court from accepting disputes related to the 2020 election over concerns that this could fuel false claims made by Trump and his allies that the election results were illegitimate.
Updated at 10:56 AM