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.

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U.S. election: Republican senator says he hopes Trump will put country first after Electoral College vote

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Donald Trump, top officials to be offered Covid-19 vaccine within days

coronavirus vaccine within days as part of a plan to ensure continuity in government amid the pandemic, people familiar with the effort said.The vaccinations will be offered to critical personnel in all three branches of government deemed essential, and could start as soon as Monday.

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Trump rewards allies with high-level appointments as presidency winds down

Donald Trump is rewarding some supporters and like-minded allies with the perks and prestige that come with serving on federal advisory boards and commissions.On Thursday, Trump announced his intention to nominate two authors who wrote books that flattered him to a board that makes recommendations on education research. Another author who helped write a favourable book about the president was chosen for the same board a few days earlier.On Wednesday, the Department of Defence announced that China hawk Michael Pillsbury would become the chair of a board that gives Pentagon leadership advice on how to enhance national security.

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U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged his supporters, who were gathered in Washington D.C.

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Trump, top White House officials to receive coronavirus vaccine in coming days: reports

Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other top U.S. officials will be offered the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine within the coming days as part of a plan aimed at ensuring the continuity of government, according to a source familiar with the plans as well as reporting from New York Times and Associated Press.Essential personnel at the White House and certain officials in all three branches of government were to be vaccinated within the next 10 days, said a Reuters source.

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Trump raises China concerns as reason to veto defense bill

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted that he intends to veto a wide-ranging defense policy bill, raising new but unspecified concerns about China as a reason to reject a traditionally bipartisan measure with a nearly 60-year track record of being signed into law.“The biggest winner of our new defense bill is China! I will veto!” Trump said.The White House did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on Trump’s specific concerns about China.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said the bill would help deter Chinese aggression. Other GOP backers of the measure, including Sen.

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Georgia high court rejects latest Trump election appeal

ATLANTA – President Donald Trump has lost his latest legal challenge seeking to overturn Georgia's election results, with the state Supreme Court's rejection late Saturday of a case from Trump's campaign and Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer. The suit - similar to other Trump team legal challenges, which made baseless allegations of widespread fraud in Georgia’s presidential election - was initially filed Dec.

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'Saturday Night Live' mocks Trump over Supreme Court's refusal to hear Texas case, coronavirus vaccine rollout

“Saturday Night Live” sounded off on the Supreme Court’s decision to decline to hear a Texas case seeking to overturn the election results that was backed by Donald Trump. During the highly popular sketch show’s “Weekend Update” segment, hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che mocked the president’s ongoing efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “Guys, I gotta be honest, I’m beginning to think Donald Trump didn’t win this election,” Jost joked during the segment before discussing the Supreme Court decision. The court denied a Texas effort Friday that would have essentially nullified the presidential election in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin, all states where Joe Biden won a narrow victory over the

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GOP voters ready for Georgia runoffs despite Trump's claims

ATLANTA – Many Republican voters in Georgia are angry. They're convinced that widespread voter fraud — claims that are baseless — cost President Donald Trump the election to Democrat Joe Biden.

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Trump appoints flurry of allies as presidency winds down

WASHINGTON – His time in the White House rapidly ending, President Donald Trump is rewarding some supporters and like-minded allies with the perks and prestige that come with serving on federal advisory boards and commissions.On Thursday, Trump announced his intention to nominate two authors who wrote books that flattered him to a board that makes recommendations on education research. Another author who helped write a favorable book about the president was chosen for the same board a few days earlier.On Wednesday, the Department of Defense announced that China hawk Michael Pillsbury would become the chair of a board that gives Pentagon leadership advice on how to enhance national security.

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Tempers flare as Trump supporters rally in Washington

WASHINGTON – Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump returned to Washington for weekend rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost to Joe Biden. Sporadic fights broke out between pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators after sundown Saturday.

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Federal court dismisses Trump lawsuit seeking to overturn Biden’s Wisconsin win

Donald Trump lost a federal lawsuit Saturday while his attorney was arguing his case before a skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court in another lawsuit that liberal justices said “smacks of racism” and would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters only in the state’s most diverse counties.U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig, a Trump appointee, dismissed Trump’s federal lawsuit asking the court to order the Republican-controlled Legislature to name Trump the winner over Democrat Joe Biden.

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Federal judge rejects Trump campaign lawsuit to overturn 2020 election results in Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump lost a federal lawsuit Saturday while his attorney was arguing his case before a skeptical Wisconsin Supreme Court in another lawsuit that liberal justices said “smacks of racism” and would disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters only in the state’s most diverse counties.U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig dismissed Trump’s federal lawsuit asking the court to order the Republican-controlled Legislature to name Trump the winner over Democrat Joe Biden.

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COMMENTARY: COVID-19 ended Trump’s presidency after one term — and here’s why

Our study examining the effect of COVID-19 cases on county-level voting in the United States shows that the pandemic led to Trump’s defeat on Nov. 3.

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Trump loyalists converging again on Washington over election

WASHINGTON – Supporters of President Donald Trump are returning to Washington for a pair of rallies to back his desperate efforts to subvert the election that he lost. The rallies Saturday come a month after a pro-Trump demonstration that drew at least 10,000 people to the capital.

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Trump largely mum on toll of coronavirus as he continues to fight election results

Donald Trump has been highlighting lots of really big numbers this week: New highs for the stock market. The 100-plus House members backing a lawsuit challenging his election loss.

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Wisconsin high court to hold rare weekend session for Trump election challenge

Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state.The high court agreed to take the case at Trump’s urgent request Friday, soon after a state judge ruled against him and with Monday’s Electoral College vote bearing down and the state’s 10 electoral votes about to go to Biden. U.S.

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U.S. election: Supreme Court rejects Texas-led bid to overturn results for Trump

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit led by the Texas attorney general and backed by President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the presidential election on Friday evening.

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U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas-led bid to overturn election results for Trump

Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court and subvert the will of voters.The high court’s order was a stark repudiation of a legal claim that was widely regarded as dubious, yet embraced by the president, 19 Republican state attorneys general and 126 House Republicans.Trump had insisted the court would find the “wisdom” and “courage” to adopt his baseless position that the election was the product of widespread fraud and should be overturned.

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Supreme Court rejects Republican attack on Biden victory

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court and subvert the will of voters.Trump bemoaned the decision late Friday, tweeting: “The Supreme Court really let us down.

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Coronavirus: Trump calls US approval of Pfizer vaccine “medical miracle”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday spoke just a short time after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency use authorization.

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Researchers decry Trump picks for education sciences advisory board

Jeffrey MervisOne month before his term expires, President Donald Trump has revived a moribund federal education research advisory panel by appointing eight members who appear to have no expertise in the subject area.The National Board for Education Sciences (NBES) provides guidance to the director of the Institute for Education Science (IES), the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

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Texas GOP chair says 'law-abiding states' should 'form a union' after SCOTUS rejects election suit

AUSTIN, Texas - The chairman of the Texas Republican Party is reacting to the Supreme Court's rejection of Texas' lawsuit to overturn Joe Biden's election victory.In a statement, Chairman Allen West said that by tossing out the lawsuit, the Supreme Court "has decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law".DOWNLOAD THE FOX 7 AUSTIN NEWS APPAllen West SIGN UP FOR FOX 7 AUSTIN EMAIL ALERTS"This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable," West said.

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Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit to overturn Biden's election victory

(LEFT) President Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec.

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As he rails on election, Trump largely mum on toll of virus

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has been highlighting lots of really big numbers this week: New highs for the stock market. The 100-plus House members backing a lawsuit challenging his election loss.

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Senate approves defense bill, sends to Trump despite his threats to veto it

FILE - Aerial view of the Pentagon building photographed on Sept. 24, 2017.

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Wisconsin state court judge rules against Trump lawsuit

(LEFT) President Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to wrestler Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on Dec.

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Trump returns to court in Wisconsin as time running out

MADISON, Wis. – President Donald Trump's campaign was returning to a Wisconsin court on Friday to argue for the state's election results to be overturned, with the Electoral College vote just three days away and a skeptical federal judge nearing a ruling on a similar case.Trump was pushing to overturn Joe Biden's narrow win in Wisconsin with both a state and federal lawsuit in courts there and as part of a broader lawsuit filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the Texas attorney general.

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Trump administration plans 2nd execution as many days

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck’s windows and dashboard.Lawyers for 56-year-old Alfred Bourgeois say he has an IQ that puts him in the intellectually disabled category and they contend that should have made him ineligible for the death penalty under federal law.Bourgeois would be the 10th federal death-row inmate put to death since federal executions resumed under President Donald Trump in July after a 17-year hiatus.

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Over 100 GOP members of Congress sign onto Texas-led election lawsuit

election is demonstrating U.S. President Donald Trump’s enduring political power even as his term is set to end.

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Hundreds of GOP members sign onto Texas-led election lawsuit

HOUSTON – The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.The last-gasp bid to subvert the results of the Nov.

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In Arizona, Trump's false claims have torn open a GOP rift

PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey spent much of Donald Trump's presidency trying not to provoke confrontation with the president or his fervent defenders.

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U.S. election: More than 100 GOP members of Congress sign onto Texas-led election lawsuit

More than 100 Republican members of Congress signed onto a Texas-led election lawsuit, which is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate president-elect Joe Biden’s victory in four swing states.

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U.S. election: How legitimate are the Trump lawsuits?

The Donald Trump campaign has launched lawsuits in several states — including Georgia, Nevada and Michigan — in an attempt to stop vote counting and invalidate ballots that have yet to be counted in the 2020 Presidential Election. Jasmine Pazzano explains whether the campaign’s claims are legitimate and if it has a chance of winning the cases.

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Pennsylvania blasts Texas’ bid to overturn Bidens' election win

HARRISBURG - Lawyers for Pennsylvania responded in the U.S.

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Rudy Giuliani boasts of same ‘celebrity’ care as Trump after COVID-19 hospital stay

Donald Trump‘s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, left the hospital Thursday after boasting about the “celebrity” treatment he received for COVID-19, including a rare dose of the same drugs that helped the president.Giuliani, 76, received two experimental drug cocktails that were used to get Trump back on his feet following his positive COVID-19 diagnosis in October, the New York Times reports. The same treatments were also handed out to Trump allies Ben Carson and Chris Christie, at a time when some hospitals are holding lotteries for use of the drugs.“If it wasn’t me, I wouldn’t have been put in a hospital, frankly,” Giuliani told WABC New York from the hospital on Wednesday.

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Trump to meet state attorneys general joining in suit to overturn election results

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thanksgiving on November 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Erin Schaff - Pool/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to let him join an improbable lawsuit challenging election results in Pennsylvania and other states that he lost, a day after the justices rejected a last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.The high court has asked for responses by Thursday.

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Sidney Powell unrelenting in legal battle on Trump's behalf

ATLANTA – Conservative attorney Sidney Powell has been unrelenting in her battle on behalf of President Donald Trump and the Americans who have pledged their faith in him, regardless of the facts of the 2020 election – namely, that Joe Biden won. She’s filed a series of lawsuits in battleground states that have been rejected by the courts and even, apparently, was too much for Trump – she was dropped from his campaign legal team last month after making incorrect statements about the voting process and promising to “blow up” Georgia with a “biblical” lawsuit.

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Trump announces Israel-Morocco to normalize relations

WASHINGTON – Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize relations, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, marking the fourth Arab-Israel agreement in four months. As part of the deal, the U.S.

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Wisconsin courts to consider President Trump's election lawsuits

This combination of pictures created on November 4, 2020 shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden gestures after speaking during election night at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, and US President Donald Trump speaks during election n MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Thursday, with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner.Trump's attorneys are urging the courts to act quickly so he can appeal any adverse ruling before members of the Electoral College meet on Monday and cast Wisconsin's 10 votes for

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Chris Rock calls on Joe Biden to create 'Supreme Court of Science' to handle any crisis like the coronavirus

Chris Rock called on President-elect Joe Biden to institute a fourth branch of government dedicated to science in order to combat another crisis like the coronavirus pandemic in a bipartisan way. The comedian and former “Saturday Night Live” star spoke with Deadline about his role on the fourth season of the FX drama “Fargo,” where he played a 1950s mobster in Missouri.The conversation turned to the difficult year that was 2020 as well as his thoughts on the outcome of the election. “I don’t know. When Biden won, I wasn’t jumping for joy.

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President Trump cementing death penalty legacy up to Biden inaugural

CHICAGO, Ill. - As Donald Trump’s presidency winds down, his administration is ratcheting up the pace of federal executions despite a surge of coronavirus cases in prisons, announcing plans for five starting Thursday and concluding just days before the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.If the five go off as planned, it will make 13 executions since July when the Republican administration resumed putting inmates to death after a 17-year hiatus and will cement Trump’s legacy as the most prolific execution president in over 130 years.

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Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden's Pennsylvania win

The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. (Government file photo) HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Republicans' last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the electoral battleground.The court without comment refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania.

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Trump virus coordinator Birx seeks role in Biden government

WASHINGTON – When Dr. Deborah Birx was brought into President Donald Trump’s orbit to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, she had a sterling reputation as a former U.S.

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Despite Trump's venting and threats, Biden's win is sealed

WASHINGTON – There’s plenty of noise but no cause for confusion as President Donald Trump vents about how the election turned out and vows to subvert it even still.This truth is self-evident: Joe Biden is on track to become president Jan. 20.

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Wisconsin courts to consider Trump's election lawsuits

MADISON, Wis. – President Donald Trump's extraordinary effort to overturn Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin returns to the courtroom on Thursday, with hearings in federal and state lawsuits seeking to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots and give the GOP-controlled Legislature the power to name Trump the winner.Trump's attorneys are urging the courts to act quickly so he can appeal any adverse ruling before members of the Electoral College meet on Monday and cast Wisconsin's 10 votes for Biden. Attorneys for Gov.

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US set to execute 1st of 5 inmates before Biden inauguration

CHICAGO – The Trump administration is planning an unprecedented five more federal executions before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, starting with a Texas street-gang member set to be put to death Thursday for his role in the 1999 slayings of an Iowa religious couple whose bodies he burned in the trunk of their car.Brandon Bernard was 18 when he and four other teenagers abducted and robbed Todd and Stacie Bagley on their way from a Sunday service in Killeen, Texas.

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Trump, 17 states join Texas’ attempt to overturn U.S. election loss at Supreme Court

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