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Ned Foley, an expert in electoral law at Ohio State University, assured The Washington Post that " there is not even the slightest possibility that the US Supreme Court or any other court could annul those votes ." "The remaining states in which there are no definitive results and in which the media have not even anticipated unofficial winners, are not yet in a recount situation," he added. "A large number of votes have yet to be counted for the first time. Until that happens, it is premature to imagine that this election, like in 2000, could be decided in court." Experts agree that the most likely path for Trump to challenge the electoral process in court passes through Pennsylvania.
In fact, the Trump campaign has already filed a motion to intervene in a Supreme Court case over how votes are counted. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided last month that election officials can receive and count votes until Nov. 6 as long as they are postmarked by Election Day. Republicans asked the US Supreme Court for precautionary Europe Cell Phone Number List measures that could have paralyzed the state court's decision. But then the US Supreme Court was deadlocked in a 4-4 tie , allowing the state court's decision to stand. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito voted in favor of the Republican petition, and Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor voted against it. The tie was a defeat for the Republicans, but it left the door open for them to appeal again. Judge Amy Coney Barrett declined to participate in that decision "due to the need for an immediate solution and because she did not have time to fully review the documentation," according to a statement from the court.
However, Barrett did not abstain, which means she could be the decisive vote in upcoming appeals. Furthermore, with Barrett's presence on the Supreme Court representing a 6-3 conservative majority, there is a chance that the Pennsylvania Republican Party will return to court . The party has already filed another appeal and the Supreme Court has not yet decided whether it will admit the case, but there is still time. Trump has repeatedly threatened to go to court in this state while he was still campaigning , implying that he would try to join the case as a party. Until then, the counties are segregating the votes that arrive between 8:00 hursday and Friday, in case the Supreme Court decides not to allow them to be added to the count. Briffault said it would be unusual for theSupreme Court to change things in Pennsylvania now.