Donald Trump loses final bid to wrest US presidency
WITH his own appointees at the United States Supreme Court voting to reject the electoral protest filed by the state of Texas on his behalf, US President Donald Trump may have seen the end of his political career while further smoothening the entry into the White House of US president-elect, Joe Biden.
In a report by the New York Times and other foreign media organizations datelined December 11, 2020, it was gathered that the Supreme Court rejected the lawsuit filed by Texas, for a longtime, a Republican stronghold, to nullify the election results in four “battlegrounds states” where Trump lost to Biden in the US presidential election held last November 3, 2020.
“The court, in a brief unsigned order, said Texas lacked standing to pursue the case, saying it ‘has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections,’” part of the Times report said.
Among the states where Trump had cried foul over the results were Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The suit had asked the court to bar those states from casting their electoral votes for Mr. Biden and to shift the selection of electors to the states’ legislatures. That would have required the justices to throw out millions of votes.
Trump had been hoping to get the nod of the US magistrates where a third of all its members were his appointees, of whom the latest is Justice Amy Coney Barrett, whom he appointed only last October, with the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a month before.
“He was right that an election dispute would end up in the Supreme Court.
“But he was quite wrong to think the court, even after he appointed a third of its members, would do his bidding.
“And with the Electoral College set to meet on Monday (December 14, 2020, Philippine Time), Mr. Trump’s efforts to change the outcome of the election will soon be at an end,” the article further said.
In a Twitter post, Trump made known his disappointment, posting, “The Supreme Court really let us down. No Wisdom, No Courage!”
The majority of the court ruled that Texas could not file its lawsuit at all. “The state of Texas’ motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing,” the order said.
“Mike Gwin, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, said the Supreme Court had ‘decisively and speedily rejected the latest of Donald Trump and his allies’ attacks on the democratic process.’
“President-elect Biden’s clear and commanding victory will be ratified by the Electoral College on Monday, and he will be sworn in on Jan. 20,,’” the article further reported, quoting Gwin.
