The Supreme Court has rejected a suit from the Texas attorney general — backed by the Trump campaign as well as 126 Republican members of Congress — to overturn the 2020 election by nixing the results in four key swing states.
More than 300 of those electors are pledged to Mr Biden, more than enough to clinch the 270 he needs to become the 46th president.
Doing so would have given Mr Trump a narrow advantage in the electoral college, but not the 270 votes to become president.
In the months leading up to the election and the weeks since, Republicans have made baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.
Seventeen other GOP state attorneys general signed onto Mr Paxton’s late challenge to the election results.
The four states whose election results were targeted in the lawsuit fired back that the results would be a dagger to American democracy.
“Texas seeks to invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees,” Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro wrote to the court against Mr Paxton’s suit. »
