Texas’ lawsuit, filed directly in the Supreme Court, challenged election procedures in four states: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. “I think this will end up in the Supreme Court,” Trump said of the election a few days after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death in September. “And I think it’s very important that we have nine justices.”He was right that an election dispute would end up in the Supreme Court. Despite the court ruling, Trump’s campaign plans to continue describing the election outcome as illegitimate. In the Texas case, the Supreme Court received more than a dozen friend-of-the-court briefs and motions seeking to intervene, from Trump, from coalitions of liberal and conservative states, from politicians and from scholars.

Source: bd News24 December 12, 2020 04:18 UTC