Supreme Court to consider election lawsuits in February
by Nicholas Rowan, Staff Writer |
| February 05, 2021 09:20 AM
The Supreme Court on Friday listed several high profile election lawsuits for consideration at its mid-February conference.
The cases include challenges to the 2020 election from Trump lawyers Lin Wood and Sydney Powell, as well as Republican Rep. Mike Kelly's Pennsylvania lawsuit. Nearly every lawsuit takes issue with the expanded use of mail-in ballots by many states.
The decision came after the court declined to fast track all election-related litigation in early January.
In nearly every plea for expedition, lawyers backing former President Donald Trump told the court that if the cases were not heard before President Biden's inauguration, their success would be unlikely.
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