Pennsylvania’s highest court docket dismissed a lawsuit on Saturday from U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) and different Republicans who’d sought to problem the legitimacy of the roughly 2.5 million mail-in ballots solid within the state throughout the November normal election.

In a unanimous determination, the Pennsylvania Supreme Courtroom threw out a decrease court docket’s order ― issued by Commonwealth Courtroom Decide Patricia McCullough on Wednesday in response to the go well with ― that had quickly halted the certification of remaining contests within the state.

The state Supreme Courtroom mentioned Kelly and the opposite Republican plaintiffs have been a lot too late in submitting their lawsuit, which had argued that Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail statute, signed into legislation in 2019, was unconstitutional.

Kelly — a vocal ally of President Donald Trump — and the opposite plaintiffs had sought to both toss out each single mail-in poll from the final election or to invalidate the election outcomes totally and order the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to decide on Pennsylvania’s presidential electors.

The state Supreme Courtroom, nevertheless, scoffed on the concept.

“It’s past cavil that Petitioners did not act with due diligence in presenting the moment declare,” the court docket wrote in its opinion, utilizing a time period which means petty or pointless.

Pennsylvania Lawyer Basic Josh Shapiro (D) celebrated the ruling as “one other win for democracy.”

BREAKING: We simply notched one other win for democracy.

The PA Supreme Courtroom has dismissed the go well with that was trying to throw out the votes of two.5 million Pennsylvanians and halt certification. https://t.co/qyMHSNwVbA

— Josh Shapiro (@JoshShapiroPA) November 28, 2020

Because the Philadelphia Inquirer famous, the court docket’s ruling marks the tip to the various lawsuits filed by the Trump marketing campaign and its allies to problem Pennsylvania’s election outcomes. Greater than a dozen authorized challenges have been filed, the paper mentioned, and the Trump marketing campaign misplaced all besides one.

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President-elect Joe Biden received Pennsylvania by greater than 81,000 votes ― a consequence licensed by Gov. Tom Wolf (D) on Tuesday. A day later, Wolf appealed McCullough’s decrease court docket determination to the state Supreme Courtroom, saying there was no “conceivable justification” to stymying the certification of Pennsylvania’s vote.

“Because the beginning of our nation practically 250 years in the past, no court docket has ever issued an order purporting to intrude with a state’s ascertainment of its presidential electors — till at present,” Wolf’s administration mentioned in its enchantment.

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