Donald Trump loses another stab wounding to the Pennsylvania state electoral court

 The lawsuit argued that a 2019 Pennsylvania state law allowing public vote by mail is unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court in the US state of Pennsylvania rejected another legal challenge to the election by supporters of President Donald Trump on Saturday, reducing his near-impossible odds of canceling the results.

A Republican lawsuit sought to nullify mail-order ballots in the state in which President-elect Joe Biden won by 81,000 votes - or to nullify all votes and allow the state legislature to determine the winner.

The court rejected both allegations in a unanimous decision, describing the second case as "an exceptional proposition that the court disinherit all 6.9 million Pennsylvania residents who voted in the general election."

The lawsuit argued that a 2019 Pennsylvania state law allowing public vote by mail is unconstitutional.

The judges said that their November 21 challenge to the law was filed too late, coming more than a year after it was promulgated, and "it appears that the election results have become apparent."

Pennsylvania officially confirmed Biden's victory there on November 24. The lawsuit also sought to stop certification.

Saturday's decision comes on the heels of a long string of similar decisions, including one the day before in which the federal appeals court flatly rejected Trump's claim that the election was unfair and refused to freeze Biden's victory in Pennsylvania.

Trump refused to abandon his allegations of fraud in the November 3 election despite repeated defeats to the court, tweeting bizarre conspiracy theories and vowing to continue his legal battle.

On Thursday, he said for the first time that he would leave the White House if the Electoral College officially confirmed Biden a winner on Dec.14.

But on Friday he tweeted, "Biden can only enter the White House as president if he can prove that the ridiculous" 80 million votes "were not obtained fraudulently or illegally.

Biden, who will be sworn in on January 20, won 306 votes in the Electoral College to 232 for Trump.

The president-elect said that the Americans "will not stand up" in the face of attempts to thwart the outcome of the vote.