It added that some of the petitioners had urged their supporters to cast their ballots using the new mail-in procedure.
Still, the Court’s decision is a tough loss for President Trump, who said on Tuesday that he believed the justices, which includes three of his nominees, could step in and side with him.
“We’re going to have to see who the next administration is. Because we won in those swing states,” he said during a coronavirus summit.
“Hopefully the next administration will be the Trump administration … You can’t steal hundreds of thousands of votes,” he said.
“Let’s see whether or not somebody has the courage, whether it’s legislators or legislatures or a justice of the Supreme Court or a number of justices of the Supreme Court,” the president said. “Let’s see if they have the courage to do what everybody in this country knows is right.”
“Petitioners filed this facial challenge to the mail-in voting statutory provisions, more than one year after the enactment of Act 77. At the time this action was filed on November 21, 2020, millions of Pennsylvania voters had already expressed their will in both the June 2020 Primary Election and the November 2020 General Election and the final ballots in the 2020 General Election were being tallied, with the results becoming seemingly apparent,” the Pennsylvania court said.
