The U.S. Supreme Court is refusing to quickly decide seven legal challenges to Joe Biden’s election victory filed by the Trump campaign and his supporters.

The justices on Monday denied requests for expedited writs of certiorari in cases questioning electoral votes cast in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona.

Combined, the states gave Biden 73 of the 306 electoral votes he won over Trump’s 232 electoral votes.

Writs of certiorari are filed by parties not satisfied with lower court decisions.  The denial of an expedited writ means that the President and his allies will have to wait for the supreme court to further consider their challenges to Biden’s win.

Among those petitions that were denied expedited consideration is one from Western Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly who is challenging Biden’s win of Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, claiming that the law allowing mail-in voting in Pennsylvania is not constitutional because it was passed without using proper procedures.

There is no indication when the justices will next take up the petitions from Kelly, the Trump campaign, and others. 

Biden will be formally inaugurated on Wednesday, January 20, 2021.

The court denied motions to expedite consideration of the petitions of certiorari in the following cases:

  •  20-845 DONALD J. TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT V. BOOCKVAR, SEC. OF PA, ET AL. (Pennsylvania)
  • 20-882 TRUMP, DONALD J., ET AL. V. BIDEN, JOSEPH R., ET AL. (Wisconsin)
  • 20-883 TRUMP, DONALD J. V. WI ELECTIONS COMMISSION, ET AL. (Wisconsin)
  • 20-799 WOOD, L. LIN V. RAFFENSPERGER, BRAD, ET AL. (Georgia)
  • 20-809 WARD, KELLI V. JACKSON, CONSTANCE, ET AL. (Arizona)
  • 20-810 KELLY, MIKE, ET AL. V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL. (Pennsylvania)
  • 20-815 KING, TIMOTHY, ET AL. V. WHITMER, GOV. OF MI, ET AL. (Michigan)

The house and senate rejected objections to Biden's electors, voting after a riot around and inside the Capitol Building by supporters of President Trump.

Rep. Kelly was among 138 Republican congressmen that voted to object to Biden’s electors from Pennsylvania. 121 GOP members voted against allowing Arizona’s electors.

In the Senate, only six members voted in favor of objecting to Arizona’s results and seven opposed the results from Pennsylvania.