The prospect of lawsuits continues, but the process of a presidential transition is also moving forward.
On Monday, the Electoral College voted to select Joe Biden as President-elect. Biden got 306 Electoral College votes, above the 270 needed to clinch the office and the same number that current President Donald Trump got four years ago when he defeated Hilary Clinton.
The vote by the Electoral College came as the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit to disqualify around 221,000 ballots, saying proper written requests weren’t filed for early and in-person ballots among other reasons.
This also came as the US Supreme Court decided Friday against hearing Texas’ challenge to results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, citing a lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution and saying Texas has no “cognizable interest” in how those states conduct elections. Trump nominees Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, participated in the decision. None of them offered a public view on the case.
