Former president Donald Trump’s challenge to the 2020 election results has long lost its direct relevancy, now that his successor, Joe Biden, has been inaugurated. But for more than a few dead-enders in Trump’s party, the claims contained in that challenge live on. As The Washington Post’s Philip Bump wrote Monday, Republicans can’t quit Trump’s and his allies’ claims, even as they’ve watered them down and are now using them to argue for changing election laws that could otherwise hurt the GOP in the post-Trump era.
But now the Supreme Court delivered perhaps one final blow to Trump’s effort — thanks in significant part to Trump’s own nominees to the court.
As The Post’s Robert Barnes reported Monday, in addition to its key decision against Trump’s attempt to prevent a grand jury from getting access to his tax returns, it also declined to take up cases involving Trump’s and Trump allies’ challenges to the election results in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Arizona: Continue reading.