Democrats urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stay its hand in a pending clash over late-arriving Pennsylvania ballots, saying those votes might not matter in the presidential election.
In a court filing Thursday, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party said it did not object to President Donald Trump's participation in the case. But with Democrat Joe Biden potentially closing in on victory, the party urged the court to hold off acting on Trump's request to take part.
Republicans are seeking to block an unspecified number of ballots that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said would count as long as they were mailed by Tuesday and arrive by Friday.
"No reason exists to assume that the number of ballots received in that window would be large enough to be decisive in the races for president and House of Representatives," the Democratic Party argued in court papers.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, took a different stance, urging the court to reject Trump’s bid to participate. Trump filed the request to intervene Wednesday.
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