President Donald Trump refused to make a brief appearance at a White House Christmas party on Friday just hours after the U.S.
Supreme Court swiftly rejected a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas and backed by the president to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin and three other states.
The high court’s order was its second this week knocking down Republican requests that it intervene in the 2020 election outcome.
The justices turned away an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans on Tuesday. Trump had called the lawsuit filed by Texas against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin “the big one” that would end with the Supreme Court undoing Biden’s substantial Electoral College majority and allowing Trump to