States Urge Supreme Court to Declare Election Over, Reject Texas Bid
- Pennsylvania asks justices for ‘clear and unmistakable signal’
- Texas backed by many GOP-run states, but Ohio official balks
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
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Pennsylvania and three other states urged the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the 2020 presidential election over by quickly rejecting an unprecedented Texas lawsuit that seeks to reverse Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.
In court filings Thursday, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin offered the court a menu of grounds for disposing of the lawsuit, which seeks to overturn results in those states and block them from casting their collective 62 electoral votes for Biden when the Electoral College meets on Monday. The court could act as soon as this week.