Supreme Court Punctures Trump Dream of Overturning Election Loss
- Two-paragraph order ends case Trump called ‘the big one’
- Texas lacks legal interest in other states’ voting, court says
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The U.S. Supreme Court sounded the legal death-knell for President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election results, rejecting a Texas lawsuit he had christened as “the big one” and clearing the path for Joe Biden to become the 46th president.
In an effectively unanimous order late Friday, the justices barred Texas from filing suit directly at the high court to challenge Biden’s wins in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. The order ensures those states can cast their votes for Biden in the Electoral College on Monday.