The Washington Examiner published an article on February 5, “Supreme Court to consider election lawsuits in February.”
The article said the Supreme Court listed several high-profile election lawsuits at its 5th meeting for consideration in mid-February. The cases include challenges to the 2020 election by President Trump‘s lawyers Linwood and Sydney Powell and Republican Rep. Mike Kelly’s Pennsylvania lawsuit, nearly all of which dispute the expanded use of mail-in ballots in voting in multiple states.
Previously, the court declined to fast-track all election-related lawsuits in early January. After fighting nearly every proceeding, lawyers supporting former President Trump said in court that they would be unlikely to win success if the cases were not heard before President Biden‘s inauguration.
But many lawyers say the challenges are still important and could have a long-term impact on the fairness of the election. President Trump’s lawyer, John Eastman, told the Washington Examiner that even if President Trump steps down, addressing issues raised by expanded mail-in ballots at the polls will need attention. “The legal issues we have,” he said of the way the 2020 election is conducted in Pennsylvania, “are still important and need to be reviewed by the courts.”
Not coincidentally, Kelly’s attorney Greg Teufel told the Washington Examiner that the 10-year congressman and leading ally of President Trump has no intention of dropping the lawsuit after the court declined to hear Kelly’s case before the inauguration.
As election lawsuits continue to play out in court, many Republican state lawmakers have begun passing laws to introduce bills that would restrict mail-in ballots.
If the Supreme Court accepts any election lawsuit, it likely won’t be heard until October.
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