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The Trump campaign and Republicans have nine active lawsuits in the Keystone State, more than all the other states combined. The campaign’s flagship case in the commonwealth—Trump v. Boockvar—was dismissed by a federal judge on Nov. 21 and the campaign swiftly appealed to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Giuliani said in a statement that the prompt dismissal helped speed the case along to the Supreme Court.

 

Days earlier, Republicans asked the Supreme Court to review another lawsuit, Bognet v. Boockvar. The Third Circuit on Nov. 13 sided with the defendants in that case in an opinion that forced the Trump campaign to significantly revise its original complaint in Trump v. Boockvar, narrowing the number of counts from seven to two and later acknowledging that only one of the two remaining counts was included for the purposes of subsequent appeal.

 

A new lawsuit filed by a Republican lawmaker and several GOP congressional candidates over the weekend, Kelly v. Pennsylvania, seeks to either block the certification of election results or to exclude mail ballots from the count. The plaintiffs allege that Pennsylvania’s vote-by-mail statute violates the commonwealth’s constitution.

 

In a handful of other cases, Republicans are challenging small batches of votes. On Monday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dismissed six such appeals—five from the Trump campaign and one from a Republican candidate, which challenged a total of 10,684 mail and absentee ballots due to the voters failing to write in their name, address, date or a combination of the three on the outer ballot envelopes. Earlier the same day, a judge in Westmoreland County ruled in favor of a Republican and ordered the county’s Board of Elections to not count 213 provisional ballots.