The US Supreme Court cleared the lawsuits filed by the Republican officials and President Trump on Monday to overturn his presidential election loss. The country’s top court also turned away the Democratic bid to expand the mail-in voting in Texas.
The bench declined to expedite consideration on the incumbent-related eight cases, including the three lawsuits filed by his campaign officials to challenge Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But political experts suggest that the decision from the court was expected as it had not acted before the Congress.
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But since the international and local media projected Biden’s win in the presidential election, Trump has falsely claimed to be the victor. This eventually led to pro-Trump supporters storming the US Capitol on January 6 after the president urged his followers to march towards the Congress and expressed their anger on the electoral system.
On the other hand, under Texas law, the state only makes postal ballots available for senior citizens. But some Democratic voters had sued the Republican-led state, citing that by discriminating the voters by age, the authorities violated the 26th constitutional amendment. Interestingly, the American apex court left a ruling from the lower court that sided with the Texas law.
The Democrats had gone to the court seeking to enable all eligible voters’ access to the postal ballots in the light of the pandemic outbreak. Earlier in June, a court also rejected an emergency request by Democrats seeking to allow wider access to mail-in ballots. In recent months, critics and Democrats have accused the Republicans in several states across the US of putting in place policies that make voting difficult.
So far, the Supreme Court has stayed away from Trump’s post-election efforts to overturn the results in key states. In December, the apex court rejected a lawsuit by Texas’ attorney general and backed by the incumbent seeking to undo President-elect’s victory in four battleground states.
