Election Results Pa Lawsuit. A group of Pennsylvania Republicans filed a lawsuit over the weekend to block certification of the states election results in an eleventh-hour attempt to overturn Joe Bidens victory in the key. Originally the lawsuit sought to invalidate nearly 700000 mail-in ballots because the campaign alleged they were counted without poll watchers.
Biden beat Trump by more than 80000 votes in Pennsylvania a state Trump had won in 2016. On December 8 2020 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the states of Georgia Michigan Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in order to invalidate the results of the presidential election in those states. ___ 2020 was a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the administration of the 2020 presidential election in certain states in which Joe Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump.
Thomas Wolf a Democrat certified Pennsylvanias election results three days after the petition was filed.
The certification showed that Biden beat Trump in the state by a 80555-vote margin. Most recently a Trump-nominated judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Stephanos Bibas wrote in a scathing decision that the presidents lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania election results. Filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on December 8 2020 under the Supreme Courts original jurisdiction Texas v. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Saturday night from US Rep.