Donald Trump and 17 states on Wednesday threw their support behind a long-shot lawsuit by Texas seeking to overturn his election loss by asking the U.S.
Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four states.Trump, defeated by President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election, filed a motion with the court asking the nine justices to let him intervene and become a plaintiff in the suit filed on Tuesday by Republican-governed Texas against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Most states have certified their U.S. election results. Here’s what happens next If the justices let Trump join the lawsuit, it would create the extraordinary circumstance of a sitting U.S.