Supreme Court Rejects Texas’ Effort To Throw Out Presidential Election Results In Four Other States

President Trump filed a petition Wednesday night asking the Supreme Court to declare the state of Wisconsin’s election "unconstitutional" in a last-ditch bid to void results before Congress meets on Jan. 6 to certify the Electoral College’s vote.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton lamented the Supreme Court's decision not to hear his case against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin challenging those state's elections. In an interview with Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Paxton questioned the court's decision that his state lacked standing -- that Texas had not shown a legal interest in how other states carry out their elections.

“Saturday Night Live” sounded off on the Supreme Court’s decision to decline to hear a Texas case seeking to overturn the election results that was backed by Donald Trump.  During the highly popular sketch show’s “Weekend Update” segment, hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che mocked the president’s ongoing efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.  “Guys, I gotta be honest, I’m beginning to think Donald Trump didn’t win this election,” Jost joked during the segment before

Hollywood stars around the country are reacting to President Trump's latest legal defeat in his campaign's fight against the 2020 presidential election results. The Supreme Court on Friday declined to hear a case in Texas that would have essentially nullified election results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin.

Ellise Shafer administratorOn Saturday morning, Twitter briefly prevented users from liking and replying to a series of tweets posted by Donald Trump disputing the results of the presidential election.Trump’s tweets were in response to the Supreme Court’s rejection of Texas’ bid to overturn the presidential election on Friday.

The leader of the Republican Party in Texas suggested Friday that “law-abiding states” might want to form their own "union," after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Lone Star State’s lawsuit over the 2020 presidential election, according to reports.

The Supreme Court justices who rejected Texas' bid to overturn the election results in four key states "hid behind procedure" instead of reviewing the "facts of the case" that "still stand," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told "Hannity" Friday. “There is no way to say it other than they dodged,” McEnany told host Sean Hannity.

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo could not contain his excitement Friday over the Supreme Court's rejection of Texas' effort to nullify the presidential election results in four key swing states.   Despite strong support among GOP lawmakers and state attorneys general, the Lone Star State's bid to halt the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victories in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan was turned aside by the highest court in the land.  “The State of Texas’s motion for leave to

Donald Trump‘s last ditch legal challenge to the 2020 presidential election results is toast. The U.S.

The Supreme Court has denied a Texas effort Friday that would have essentially nullified the presidential elections in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin. “The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution,” the Supreme Court’s order reads.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe Supreme Court on Friday denied Texas’ bid to overturn the presidential election, finding in a brief order that the state does not have standing to challenge voting procedures in four states that went for President-elect Joe Biden.The Texas attorney general brought the suit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — marking only the latest of dozens of efforts by President Trump and his supporters to overturn the election result.“Texas has not

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has taken on a case by President Trump’s legal team, seeking to have hundreds of thousands of ballots in Democratic Dane and Milwaukee Counties thrown out, even after a circuit court judge dismissed the case Friday.

Texas Rep.-elect Beth Van Duyne is the only Republican candidate in the country to have won a seat where President Trump lost and where President-elect Joe Biden won, with Republicans strategists calling her seat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “most bitter loss.”  Van Duyne, who was elected to serve Texas’ 24th District covering Dallas-Fort Worth, made history in November by becoming only the second Republican woman from Texas to be elected to the House of Representatives.  “The results of this

After saying “God bless Texas,” Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday gave a rousing endorsement of a lawsuit filed by the Texas attorney general and backed by President Trump that aims to throw out the election results in four key battleground states won last month by President-elect Joe Biden. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, is suing to prevent electors from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia from certifying Biden’s victories.

In briefs submitted with the Supreme Court on Thursday, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin slammed the Texas lawsuit to prevent those four states from casting their electoral votes as a "meritless" effort to "decimate the electorate of the United States." The response briefs were filed just ahead of a 3 p.m.

Missouri and five other states on Thursday threw their support even further behind the Texas lawsuit aiming to prevent Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin's electors from casting their electoral votes by asking the Supreme Court to let them join the Texas suit.  Missouri on Wednesday led a group of 17 states in filing a brief that supported the Texas lawsuit, which alleges that the four key swing states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden violated the Constitution by having their

It has now been a month and two days since Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election, and Donald Trump has yet to concede the election.

President Trump on Wednesday touted Texas' suit demanding the U.S. Supreme Court block the Electoral College votes of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, calling it the "big one." "We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case.This is the big one.

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