The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a Republican-backed challenge to an executive order signed by President Biden that seeks to expand voting access and registration just over a month before Election Day.
Supreme Court sits again on Monday for his 2024-2025 term and dismissed several cases, including one supported by dozens of Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania who claimed that President Biden’s 2021 executive order on voter access was unconstitutional and meant to interfere with the election. An attempt was made. The lawsuit also took aim at an order by Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro to implement automatic voter registration statewide.
The judges did not comment while dismissing the appeal.
Shapiro’s office won after the Supreme Court declined to hear the case, calling GOP efforts a “bad faith effort” to disenfranchise voters.
“This petition was another attempt in bad faith Disenfranchise Pennsylvania voters — and the U.S. Supreme Court made the right decision to deny the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus petition,” Shapiro spokesman Manuel Bondar told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
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President Biden, right, speaks with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during a briefing on Hurricane Helene response and recovery efforts in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on October 1, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
“Governor Shapiro has fought tirelessly to protect our democracy – including defeating Donald Trump and his allies in court dozens of times to protect Pennsylvanians’ votes and access to the ballot box. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court “Those who refused the election lost 0-2.”
Biden signs executive order on promoting voting access in March 2021, directing federal agencies to expand Access to Voter RegistrationWorks to overhaul the government’s Vote.gov website, and notes that the federal government “has a duty to ensure that registering to vote and voting is easy for all people eligible to do so.” And it should be made easier.”
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Executive Order 14019 states that “Commits executive departments and agencies to protect and promote the right to vote, eliminate discrimination and other barriers to voting, and expand access to voter registration at State, local, tribal, and territorial levels.” “There should be a partnership with election officials.” Accurate election information.”
The executive order sparked a storm of criticism, particularly among Republicans. 27 Republican Pennsylvania Fox News Digital previously reported that lawmakers are filing a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality.
Lawmakers argued that the executive order essentially serves as an executive get-out-the-vote effort targeting demographics that would benefit the Democratic Party. He argued that the move was unconstitutional because Congress never enacted a law that would allow such action from the White House.
A Federal judge dismisses lawsuit In March, it filed a legal face-off at the US Supreme Court, citing its lack of legal status.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, right, watches President Biden’s remarks after a briefing on Interstate 95 highway emergency repair and reconstruction efforts in Philadelphia on June 17, 2023. (Photo by Julia Nikhinson/AFP)
“We think it’s really important President Biden will be held accountable” Eric Cardle, a lawyer for the lawmakers, told Fox News Digital in April.
Cardle said, “For him to violate such a big law, when all the little people have to follow laws, even small laws … it’s clear that President Biden has got himself re-elected.” To have an executive order issued without acts of Congress is ridiculous.”
In its petition filed in the Supreme Court in April, Republican MP Asked the court to consider the matter. They argued that, for the 2024 election, they cannot “do their part” in suing to stop federal and state executive usurpation of Pennsylvania state law pursuant to the Elections Clause and Electoral Clause unless the courts do their job. And does not declare individual state. The MLAs are standing in this matter.”
Lawmakers had called on the Supreme Court to bypass the federal appeals court and determine whether they have standing to bring the case before the 2024 election.
Following the court’s dismissal of the case, Shapiro’s office told Fox Digital that the governor is “focused on protecting our democracy and ensuring that our elections are free, fair, safe, and secure.”
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on August 21, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Sager)
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The Supreme Court will hear some other cases during this period high-profile casesThat includes laws banning “ghost guns”, the legality of Tennessee’s ban on transgender surgeries for children, as well as the legality of the federal ban on flavored e-cigarette vapes.
