The Trump campaign on Sunday filed an emergency request at the US Supreme Court aimed at overturning three Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases which “illegally changed Pennsylvania’s mail balloting law immediately before and after the 2020 presidential election.”
The 267-page writ of certiorari asks the court to put the trio of Pennsylvania decisions on an ultra-expedited timeline in an attempt to produce a ruling before Congress meets Jan. 6 to count electoral votes.
Full Statement from Mayor @RudyGiuliani on @realDonaldTrump campaign’s Supreme Court filing:
TRUMP CAMPAIGN TAKING CONSTITUTIONAL FIGHT TO SUPREME COURThttps://t.co/pyYqCPxNkR https://t.co/TF3VFqRfXr
— Boris Epshteyn (@BorisEP) December 20, 2020
According to The National Pulse:
The filing alleges the action was “in violation of Article II of the United States Constitution and Bush v. Gore,” and “represents the Campaign’s first independent U.S. Supreme Court filing and seeks relief based on the same Constitutional arguments successfully raised in Bush v. Gore,” according to the campaign’s press release.
“This petition follows a related Pennsylvania case where Justice Alito and two other justices observed ‘the constitutionality of the [Pennsylvania] Supreme Court’s decision [extending the statutory deadline for receipt of mail ballots from 8 pm on election day to 5 pm three days later] … has national importance, and there is a strong likelihood that the State Supreme Court decision violates the Federal Constitution,” the press release, authored by Rudy Giuliani notes.
More from the filing:
“The Campaign’s petition seeks to reverse three decisions which eviscerated the Pennsylvania Legislature’s protections against mail ballot fraud, including (a) prohibiting election officials checking whether signatures on mail ballots are genuine during canvassing on Election Day, (b) eliminating the right of campaigns to challenge mail ballots during canvassing for forged signatures and other irregularities, (c) holding that the rights of campaigns to observe the canvassing of mail ballots only meant that they only were allowed to be ‘in the room’ – in this case, the Philadelphia Convention Center – the size of several football fields, and (d) eliminating the statutory requirements that voters properly sign, address, and date mail ballots. The petition seeks all appropriate remedies, including vacating the appointment of electors committed to Joseph Biden and allowing the Pennsylvania General Assembly to select their replacements. The Campaign also moved for expedited consideration, asking the Supreme Court to order responses by December 23 and a reply by December 24 to allow the U.S. Supreme Court to rule before Congress meets on January 6 to consider the votes of the electoral college.”