Trump team files new petition at Supreme Court to overturn election results in Pennsylvania

Rudy Giuliani, attorney for the Trump campaign, has filed a new case with the Supreme Court alleging election fraud in the Nov. 3 general election. This case would be to reverse the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's determination to not hear three cases that the Trump campaign brought over irregularities and fraud regarding mail-in ballots.

The ask would be to allow the Pennsylvania General Assembly to choose their own electors instead of sending those who have already been designated to vote for Joe Biden.

In a statement, the campaign said "Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., President Trump’s campaign committee, today filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the US. Supreme Court to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases which illegally changed Pennsylvania's mail balloting law immediately before and after the 2020 presidential election in violation of Article II of the United States Constitution and Bush v. Gore.   This 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.

"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 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."

Giuliani would like the Supreme Court to hear the case and issue a ruling prior to the January 6 Electoral College vote. The snag is that the Court isn't scheduled to meet until after the Electoral College completes its business.

The filing with the Supreme Court marks the fourth case the Trump campaign has brought alleging severe problems with Pennsylvania's general election. Concerns have been raised over the voting machines that were used, the refusal to allow GOP observers during ballot counting, as well as more basic fraud, such as counting ballots that came in after the deadline had passed.

Pennsylvania's Supreme Court upheld the state's right to count ballots that did not meet the correct criteria, such as problems with the outer envelope not containing identification information. Signatures were not required to match either.

Concerns over Pennsylvania's voting problems were so severe that Texas tried to sue Pennsylvania at the Supreme Court, alleging that Pennsylvania had not followed its own procedures with regard to changing voting laws, and therefore disenfranchised voters across the nation.