Pennsylvania court dismisses another lawsuit by Donald Trump

Pennsylvania supreme court has dismissed another lawsuit filed by US President Donald Trump’s campaign on Saturday, further limiting his already near-impossible odds of overturning the 2020 presidential election results.

The suit challenged election results in the state and sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, which President-elect Joe Biden won by around 81,000 votes. It also argued that a Pennsylvania law from 2019 allowing universal mail-in voting was unconstitutional.

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Dismissing both claims in a unanimous decision, the court called the second one an “extraordinary proposition that the court disenfranchises all 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the general election.”

The judges said that their November 21 challenge to the law was filed too late, coming more than a year after it was enacted and with the election results “becoming seemingly apparent.”

Saturday’s decision follows a long line of similar ones, including a ruling the day before in which a federal appeals court flatly dismissed Trump’s claim that the election was unfair and refused to freeze Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania officially affirmed Biden’s victory on November 24. The lawsuit had also strived to stop the certification.

Trump and his campaign have refused to concede defeat in the November 3 election despite the repeated court losses, vowing to continue their legal fight.

Biden, who is to be sworn in on January 20, won 306 votes in the Electoral College to Trump’s 232.