Trump campaign asks to enter Pennsylvania mail-in ballot challenge

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Amy Howe Independent Contractor and Reporter

Posted Wed, November 4th, 2020 9:37 pm

Trump campaign asks to enter Pennsylvania mail-in ballot challenge

Telling the court that “the vote in Pennsylvania may well determine the next President of the United States,” the campaign of President Donald Trump went to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon. In a 10-page filing in Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Boockvar, the president’s campaign asked to join the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s appeal of a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that requires election officials to count mail-in ballots received by Nov. 6. The justices rejected a plea from the party to fast-track their challenge to that ruling last week, but an opinion from Justice Samuel Alito left open the possibility that the court could take up the dispute again.

Under the state supreme court’s ruling, which relied on a provision in the state constitution, all ballots received by Nov. 6 will be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day, Nov. 3, lack a postmark or have a postmark that is unclear. On Oct. 19, the justices turned down a request from the Pennsylvania Republicans to put that ruling on hold while the party appealed. Four of the court’s conservative justices – Alito and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh – indicated that they would have blocked the state supreme court’s decision. Justice Amy Coney Barrett was not yet on the court at the time.

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This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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Recommended Citation: Amy Howe, Trump campaign asks to enter Pennsylvania mail-in ballot challenge, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 4, 2020, 9:37 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/11/trump-campaign-asks-to-enter-pennsylvania-mail-in-ballot-challenge/

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