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Trump lobs Supreme Court problem to overturn Wisconsin vote

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President Donald Trump is asking the US Supreme Court for an expedited assessment of a Wisconsin resolution that allowed 50,000 absentee ballots to be counted in one other long-shot problem to Joe Biden’s victory within the 2020 election.
The Trump marketing campaign mentioned in an emailed assertion that it needed the justices to assessment Wisconsin’s election outcomes earlier than Jan. 6 — subsequent Wednesday — when the Senate and House meet collectively to open and rely certificates of Electoral College votes.
Even although the result has been determined and greater than 50 post-election lawsuits difficult the outcomes by Trump’s marketing campaign and its allies have been rejected, the president and a few of his supporters proceed to insist that he gained based mostly on groundless claims of widespread fraud.

The Supreme Court submitting is predicated on allegations of unlawful mail voting and follows an identical, failed request regarding Pennsylvania’s votes. Wisconsin’s excessive courtroom “refused to address the merits” of the Trump marketing campaign’s go well with, Jim Troupis, a lawyer for the marketing campaign, mentioned within the assertion.
Earlier this month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the marketing campaign’s effort to bypass decrease courts and take its election case on to the state’s excessive courtroom.