<p>The US state of Pennsylvania's supreme court dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump on Saturday, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results.</p>.<p>A Republican lawsuit had sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in the battleground state that President-elect Joe Biden won by about 81,000 votes -- or to throw out all votes and allow the state's legislature to decide the winner.</p>.<p>The court dismissed both claims in a unanimous decision, calling the second one an "extraordinary proposition that the court disenfranchise all 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the general election."</p>.<p><strong>Also Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/in-key-states-republicans-were-critical-in-resisting-trump-s-election-narrative-921175.html">In key states, Republicans were critical in resisting Trump’s election narrative</a></strong></p>.<p>The lawsuit argued that a Pennsylvania law from 2019 allowing universal mail-in voting was unconstitutional.</p>.<p>The judges said that their November 21 challenge to the law was filed too late, coming more than a year after it was enacted and with the election results "becoming seemingly apparent."</p>.<p>Pennsylvania officially certified Biden's victory there on November 24. The lawsuit had also sought to stop certification.</p>.<p>Saturday's decision follows a long line of similar ones, including a ruling the day before in which a federal appeals court flatly dismissed Trump's claim that the election was unfair and refused to freeze Biden's win in Pennsylvania.</p>.<p>Trump has refused to give up on his claims of fraud in the November 3 election despite his repeated court defeats, tweeting bizarre conspiracy theories and vowing to continue his legal fight.</p>.<p>On Thursday, he said for the first time that he would leave the White House if Biden is officially confirmed the winner by the Electoral College on December 14.</p>.<p>But on Friday he tweeted that "Biden can only enter the White House as president if he can prove that his ridiculous '80,000,000 votes' were not fraudulently or illegally obtained."</p>.<p>Biden, who is to be sworn in on January 20, won 306 votes in the Electoral College to Trump's 232.</p>.<p>The president-elect has said that Americans "won't stand" for attempts to derail the vote outcome.</p>
<p>The US state of Pennsylvania's supreme court dismissed another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump on Saturday, further reducing his already near-impossible odds of overturning the results.</p>.<p>A Republican lawsuit had sought to invalidate mail-in ballots in the battleground state that President-elect Joe Biden won by about 81,000 votes -- or to throw out all votes and allow the state's legislature to decide the winner.</p>.<p>The court dismissed both claims in a unanimous decision, calling the second one an "extraordinary proposition that the court disenfranchise all 6.9 million Pennsylvanians who voted in the general election."</p>.<p><strong>Also Read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/in-key-states-republicans-were-critical-in-resisting-trump-s-election-narrative-921175.html">In key states, Republicans were critical in resisting Trump’s election narrative</a></strong></p>.<p>The lawsuit argued that a Pennsylvania law from 2019 allowing universal mail-in voting was unconstitutional.</p>.<p>The judges said that their November 21 challenge to the law was filed too late, coming more than a year after it was enacted and with the election results "becoming seemingly apparent."</p>.<p>Pennsylvania officially certified Biden's victory there on November 24. The lawsuit had also sought to stop certification.</p>.<p>Saturday's decision follows a long line of similar ones, including a ruling the day before in which a federal appeals court flatly dismissed Trump's claim that the election was unfair and refused to freeze Biden's win in Pennsylvania.</p>.<p>Trump has refused to give up on his claims of fraud in the November 3 election despite his repeated court defeats, tweeting bizarre conspiracy theories and vowing to continue his legal fight.</p>.<p>On Thursday, he said for the first time that he would leave the White House if Biden is officially confirmed the winner by the Electoral College on December 14.</p>.<p>But on Friday he tweeted that "Biden can only enter the White House as president if he can prove that his ridiculous '80,000,000 votes' were not fraudulently or illegally obtained."</p>.<p>Biden, who is to be sworn in on January 20, won 306 votes in the Electoral College to Trump's 232.</p>.<p>The president-elect has said that Americans "won't stand" for attempts to derail the vote outcome.</p>