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Finally, the US Supreme Court is in the game.
BREAKING FROM SCOTUS: Justice Alito has issued an Order than any ballots received after after 8pm on election day in PA be segregated and secured – and if counted, counted separately. There is a petition pending before SCOTUS. Alito orders opposing side to reply by 2p Saturday.
— Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) November 7, 2020
No way to call Pennsylvania for now: #SCOTUS Justice Alito issued an order that ballots received after after 8pm on election day in Pennsylvania be set aside – state leg did not change the voting laws per the constitution- state court did. This could be huge for @realDonaldTrump
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) November 7, 2020
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Justice Alito temporarily grants Pennsylvania GOP request to enforce segregation of late ballots
Emma Brown
November 6, 2020 at 8:21 p.m. ESTPlease note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers. Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for breaking news email alerts.
Legal jockeying in Pennsylvania intensified Friday as Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure county election officials were segregating mail ballots delivered after Election Day, the latest effort by the GOP to use the courts to intervene in the vote count as former vice president Joe Biden’s advantage grew.
On Friday evening, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who received the petition because he is the justice responsible for that region, approved the GOP request for now, ordering county boards to comply with state guidance to keep the late ballots separate. However, Alito did not direct election officials to stop counting the ballots, as the Republicans had also sought. He called for a response from state officials by Saturday afternoon.
ADEven if the high court were to ultimately side with Republicans, the impact would likely be muted: Pennsylvania officials said they are already setting aside the small number of mail ballots that have arrived since Tuesday.
ADVERTISEMENTBut the move was part of a broader scramble in the courts by President Trump’s campaign and other Republican figures as Biden improved his lead in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada.
The GOP has sought to halt or delay the ballot count in several lawsuits filed or revived this week around the country since Tuesday. According to court filings, at least 35 lawyers — including newly appointed Republican National Committee “legal challenge teams” in key states — have been drafted by the campaign to bring cases alleging voting irregularities or missteps by election officials in the wake of an election that ran largely smoothly Tuesday.
ADBut judges have responded skeptically as Republicans struggle to provide specific evidence to support Trump’s claim of widespread voter fraud, leading them to deny or dismiss claims of irregularities or rule-breaking in Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Voting rights advocates, election administrators and Democrats have roundly criticized the lawsuits as meritless.
On Thursday, judges in three states rejected lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign that challenged the ballot-counting process. Friday brought additional defeat for Republicans in Michigan, as judges rejected a lawsuit from a conservative nonprofit alleging rules were broken during ballot processing and counting in Detroit, according to lawyers involved in the case. And the GOP had another setback in Nevada, where a judge denied an emergency request to intervene in the vote count in Clark County.
How Trump loyalists are driving his campaign’s legal efforts to challenge ballots
The GOP’s most intense focus was on Pennsylvania, where Biden pulled ahead of Trump in the vote count early Friday.
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