Supreme Court Unlikely to Decide Fate of Election

This election has been chaotic. Allegations of voter fraud are rampant, even though the winner has already been confirmed to be Joe Biden. These allegations have been exacerbated by Trump and the Republican party; the President has already filed lawsuits against several swing states, including Georgia and Pennsylvania. Some have drawn parallels to the 2000 election, when George W. Bush and Al Gore faced off in the SCOTUS over ballot counts in Florida.

There are plenty of key differences between this election and the one in 2000. The SCOTUS deliberated over whether or not a recount should be blocked in one state, where the margin between victory and defeat was but a few hundred votes. In this case, Biden had received many more electoral votes than Trump did. Moreover, many of Trump’s lawsuits have already been thrown out. Pennsylvania’s electoral votes had already swung the election to Biden’s favor, and Trump’s lawsuit has already been dismissed.