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- 时间: 2020-11-28 17:22Pennsylvania Supreme Court tosses GOP congressman’s suit seeking to throw out all ballots cast by mail
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Saturday rebuffed a long-shot election challenge Saturday from one of President Trump’s top boosters in Congress, balking at his suggestion that it throw out every ballot cast by mail or designate the state’s legislature to decide who won the state.
In a unanimous decision, the justices declared that U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R., Butler) and the seven Republican plaintiffs in the suit had waited too long to bring their lawsuit alleging that the 2019 law, passed by the state’s GOP-controlled legislature, which created no-excuse mail voting in the state for the first time was unconstitutional and “illegally implemented.”
Instead of filing it shortly after the passage of the bill, which was required in the statute, they waited until their candidate lost to challenge the mechanism by which some 2.6 million Pennsylvanians voted this year, the court wrote in a terse, three-page order.
The suit had led to an earlier order from a lower appellate court judge who temporarily barred the state Wednesday from any further steps to certify the results of the 2020 election pending a hearing.
But her order and the proceedings were quickly scuttled within hours after state elections administrators appealed Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough’s decision to the Supreme Court.
The dismissal of his lawsuit brings to an end all legal challenges brought by the Trump campaign and its GOP allies filed in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, which President-elect Joe Biden won by roughly 81,000 votes.
While the state’s presidential election results had already been certified, declaring Joe Biden the victor by roughly 81,000 votes, McCullough’s decision cast a pall of uncertainty on several down-ballot races including Kelly’s own re-election which he won based in part on 35,000 mail ballots.
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- 时间: 2020-11-28 17:26
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- 时间: 2020-11-28 17:32In an order released on Saturday night, the state supreme court vacated a preliminary order by the Commonwealth Court and dismissed the case.
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"Upon consideration of the parties’ filings in Commonwealth Court, we hereby dismiss the petition for review with prejudice based upon Petitioners’ failure to file their facial constitutional challenge in a timely manner," the order read.The ruling comes after state Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough on Wednesday ordered state officials to halt further steps to certify the state's election results one day after Gov. Tom Wolf (D) certified the Keystone State's results for Biden.Following McCullough's order, Pennsylvania secretary of commonwealth Kathy Boockvar and Wolf appealed the order to the state supreme court.The latest order by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reverses McCullough's decision.Originally, an emergency petition was filed in state court last weekend by the GOP ahead of Monday's deadline to certify election results, a process that would solidify a defeat for Trump.Plaintiffs including Kelly asked the court to invalidate a universal mail-in voting policy that was signed by Wolf and passed by a Republican-held legislature last year. They argued that provisions that allowed expanded mail-in voting in the state were unconstitutional, according to the order."As a remedy, Petitioners sought to invalidate the ballots of the millions of Pennsylvania voters who utilized the mail-in voting procedures established by Act 77 and count only those ballots that Petitioners deem to be 'legal votes'", the order continued.The rejected bid is part of a multi-state effort by Republicans and Trump allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election in favor of Trump. However, election law experts have noted that law suits pressed by the Trump campaign and its allies are not going to succeed in their intended result. -
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