Transition Highlights: Democrats and Some Republicans Applaud Supreme Court Rejection of Suit to Overturn Election
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The court held that Texas lacked standing to challenge the election results in four states Joe Biden won. Congress reached agreement on a one-week spending bill to stave off a government shutdown. The Electoral College votes for president will be cast on Monday.
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The rejection came swiftly. The celebrations came just as fast.
The Supreme Court’s unsigned order on Friday rejecting Texas’ bid to toss the results of the 2020 presidential election in four states that delivered the White House to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. unceremoniously ended a case that President Trump had teased only hours earlier as “perhaps the most important case in history.”
Divided Republicans lined up with and against President Trump on Thursday in a high-stakes Supreme Court case challenging presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden's election in four swing states, as the president echoed a supporter's view that the country stands at "a dangerous moment."
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WASHINGTON In blistering language denouncing Republican efforts to subvert the election, the attorneys general for Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to reject a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the victories in those states by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., calling the audacious effort an affront to democracy and the rule of law.
The lawsuit, filed by the Republican attorney general of Texas and backed by his G.O.P. colleagues in 17 other states and 106 Republican members of Congress, represents the most coordinated, politicized attempt to overturn the will of the voters in recent American history. President Trump has asked to intervene in the lawsuit as well in hopes that the Supreme Court will hand him a second term he decisively lost.
Attorney General William Barr reportedly hid two federal investigations into Hunter Biden for months and worked to keep the probes secret from lawmakers and the public ahead of the November presidential election.
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