The Supreme Court appeared to deliberately avoid President Trump‘s challenge to Pennsylvania’s election results, announcing Wednesday that it had set the state’s response date for Jan. 22 – two days after the U.S. presidential inauguration, The Washington Examiner reported.
Trump filed the lawsuit on Monday in which he asked the court to expedite the case, demanding that Pennsylvania respond by today. In a petition filed with the court, Trump’s lawyers wrote that the expedited timeline is essential “because once a candidate takes office, it is impossible to fix election results tainted by illegal and late votes or absentee and mail-in ballots.”
John Eastman, Trump’s attorney in the case, wrote: “Without expedited review, petitioners’ right to appeal – and this court’s authority to resolve the important constitutional and legal issues raised by this election – could be irreversibly lost.”
Eastman told the Washington Examiner that he wants the court to expedite the case and move up the response date.
Trump’s case challenges several decisions by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that have upheld the state’s allowance of greater latitude for mail-in ballots. Trump’s legal team called the Pennsylvania Supreme Court “highly likely” to violate the Constitution, saying the Pennsylvania legislature’s decision on mail-in ballots led to fraud.
The federal Supreme Court earlier in December rejected a case brought by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) on similar claims. The Supreme Court also dismissed a Texas case challenging election procedures in several battleground states, including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia.
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