Supreme Court turns away PA GOP effort to block extended period for turning in ballots

Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him.Trump had tried to commandeer the nation's airwaves at a time when the evening newscasts are shown on the East Coast, after a day when the slow drip of vote counting revealed his leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia dwindling.MSNBC's Brian Williams also interrupted the president.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has issued a temporary order requiring Pennsylvania elections officials to segregate ballots received after 8 p.m. on Election Day.

Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar have done everything they can in the way of "changing the rules" to help Joe Biden, state Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman claimed Friday Corman, a Republican, charged on "America's Newsroom" that the executive branch's actions caused the integrity of the election to be compromised.

Top Pennsylvania Republicans, speaking with the press on Friday, urged people to "relax" as tensions run high in the battleground state and President Trump's campaign makes allegations of potential election-related wrongdoing, specifically in Philadelphia.  Meanwhile, Democratic nominee Joe Biden continues to hold a small lead over Trump, and media organizations have yet to call the race for either candidate as mail ballots, which generally skew heavily Democratic in Pennsylvania, continue to be

The Republican Party in Pennsylvania is asking the Supreme Court to order the state to segregate all late-arriving absentee ballots, in hopes that their suit to disallow the state from counting ballots that arrive after Nov. 3 but are postmarked by then could be successful.  The state GOP filed a request, which will go to Justice Samuel Alito, from the conservative wing of the court.The state was already segregating these ballots before the emergency appeal was filed.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmWe are inhaling like oxygen every development of the contentious Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden White House battle as it moves from ballot counting to the courtroom as Trump tries to overturn the likely victory that will be awarded to the former Vice President.

Democrats in Pennsylvania on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to hold off any action on a petition from Republicans in the state, arguing that the tribunal should strike down a three-day deadline extension for Pennsylvania mail ballots sent by Election Day to be received by elections boards.  The filing by the state Democratic Party on Thursday was in response to a motion by the Trump campaign to join the state GOP in its effort to overturn the deadline extension, which was implemented by the

With the presidential election still undecided, President Trump’s campaign has launched a flurry of lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia.The suits raise a range of claims.These include the exclusion of observers from vote-counting rooms, voting by non-residents, and even the counting of votes listed as being cast by people who have died. But the case that could decide it all started weeks ago, and is currently waiting at the U.S.

A top Pennsylvania Republican state senator called Thursday for the resignation of Secretary of the Commonwealth Kathy Boockvar, accusing her of failing to ensure an orderly presidential election in the Keystone State.

A Nevada official announced Thursday that the state will accept mail-in ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 until Tuesday, Nov.

Military mail-in ballots are still arriving in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Nevada, even as President Trump and his campaign protest the counting of votes after Election Day.  Trump has argued that ballots received afterward should not be counted and filed lawsuits to stop the tally in states where he says observers haven't been given "meaningful access" to ensure the process is fair.

Donald Trump‘s campaign is now filing with the Supreme Court to stop the vote count in Pennsylvania.

President Trump will win Pennsylvania despite Democratic state officials' best efforts to "stack the deck," the battleground state's GOP chairman and election law attorney Lawrence Tabas told Fox News.

Here's a helpful reminder: The 2020 presidential election is far from decided. As of this writing, the race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden looks to hinge on three battleground states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Nearing 3:00am ET on Election Night, Donald Trump declared the 2020 presidential election a sham, and vowed to get the Supreme Court to intervene immediately. The president, 74, insisted in a rambling speech at the White House that he had already won the election, and alleged that the Democrats were falsifying votes to give Joe Biden the win. His solution? Demand that polling stations stop counting ballots and committing “a major fraud on our nation.”

Here’s what Barrett’s confirmation means for you if you….In November, the Supreme Court will hear a case that will determine whether the Affordable Care Act—or parts of it—is unconstitutional. If the court rules that it is unconstitutional, more than Americans could lose healthcare coverage.

Roe v. Wade.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, warned residents in his city that counting the mail-in ballots “will easily take several days” after Election Day, which increases the possibility that it could be a while before the election is settled. Pennsylvania has been seen as one of the most pivotal states in the election.

After the Supreme Court on Monday blocked an effort by Pennsylvania Republicans to put a hold on a three-day deadline extension for mail ballots to be received in Pennsylvania, the state GOP is considering further action on the issue next week after Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is seated and before the presidential election.  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, claiming emergency jurisdiction, last month extended the deadline for mailed ballots to be received by election officials to Nov.