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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Pennsylvania GOP's Voter Registration Challenge Against Biden Order

Oct 7, 2024, 04:00 PM

On October 7, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear without comment a challenge from Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania to President Joe Biden's three-year-old executive order aimed at boosting voter registration. The Republicans claimed that the order was an unconstitutional interference in the upcoming November election, invoking a fringe theory on state power in federal elections. Lower courts had dismissed their lawsuit, and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear the case marks another setback for Republican efforts to challenge voter laws and procedures.