On Monday, the United States Supreme Court dismissed the three cases brought before the justices by former President Donald Trump challenging his election defeat, putting an end to his futile legal battle to retain control.
Without comment, the court dismissed Trump's appeal challenging thousands of absentee ballots submitted in Wisconsin, a key election battleground in which the Republican businessman-turned-politician lost by more than 20,000 votes to Democrat Joe Biden. On January 20, Biden was sworn in as President of the United States.
It was the last of three appeals filed at the end of Trump's presidency that the Supreme Court refused to hear. Trump's other two appeals, a second Wisconsin challenge and one involving voting in Pennsylvania, a key state Trump lost, were both dismissed by the Supreme Court on Feb. 22. In all three cases, lower courts had previously ruled against Trump.
Since it did not act until Congress certified Biden's victory on Jan. 6, it was apparent that the high court, which comprises three justices appointed by Trump, had no intention of intervening in the cases and others brought by his allies. When a pro-Trump crowd invaded the US Capitol, the formal certification was disrupted.
In the Wisconsin case, Trump filed his lawsuit two days after the state's election results were certified. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he opposed many Wisconsin election policies, including one that allowed the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots. The charges were dismissed by a federal judge and the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, which noted that Trump had waited too long to sue.
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