Trump was losing everywhere. “Trump and the GOP have now lost more than 50 post-election lawsuits,” read the headline in Forbes on December 8, after the Supreme Court threw out an effort by his ally, Pennsylvania congressman Mike Kelly, to block the state from certifying the election for Biden. The high court’s rejection, from one of the court’s most conservative justices, Samuel Alito, was one sentence: “The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.”
