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\nWASHINGTON
\nThe US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit from Texas, which is supported by President Donald Trump in a bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in four battleground states.
\n\u201cThe State of Texas\u2019s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution,\u201d the highest court wrote. \u201cTexas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.\u201d
\n\u201cAll other pending motions are dismissed as moot,\u201d the three-sentence order said. The ruling is widely seen as a death blow to Trump\u2019s efforts to reverse Democrat Joe Biden\u2019s projected Electoral College victory. The justices also turned away an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans on Tuesday. The Supreme Court \u201cdecisively and speedily rejected the latest of Donald Trump and his allies\u2019 attacks on the democratic process,\u201d Biden\u2019s spokesman Mike Gwin said in a statement.
\n\u201cThis is no surprise – dozens of judges, election officials from both parties, and Trump\u2019s own Attorney General have dismissed his baseless attempts to deny that he lost the election,\u201d Gwin said. Trump\u2019s attorney filed a motion on Wednesday with the Supreme Court after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged that new voting processes in key swing states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic skewed the presidential election results.
\nOver 12 states where Trump won the popular vote, as well as more than 120 Republican lawmakers, filed briefs in support of Texas\u2019s action, while about two dozens states and territories that Biden won filed their own briefs in opposition to Texas\u2019s complaint.
\nAll 50 states and Washington, D.C. have reportedly certified their election results. Electors are scheduled to meet in their state capital cities on Dec. 14 to cast their votes, which will be counted and finalized by the next Congress next month. Biden, former U.S. vice president, is projected to win 306 electoral votes, compared with 232 for Trump. To clinch the White House, a candidate needs at least 270 electoral votes of the 538 in total.
\nTrump has refused to concede, but dozens of lawsuits challenging the results have been dismissed at the state and federal levels across the country since the November election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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