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Present drugs legal team is threatening or has filed

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lawsuits over these election results in the us supreme court has already waited

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now on one request from pennsylvania republicans nbc justice correspondent our

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colleague pete williams is in dc with more on that this morning what's the very latest

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...the pennsylvania republicans are fighting to keep the state from counting the mail ballots that came

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in between tuesday night and friday evening under that

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extended deadline that was ordered by a pennsylvania state court the secretary of state and

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earlier ordered all those counties to keep the balance separate because of pending lawsuits

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over that deadline and on friday state republicans told the supreme court

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they couldn't tell if all the counties were obeying that so they asked the

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court to order the secretary of state to tell the counties that again and they also

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asked for an order that would block local election boards from counting those ballots in

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case the courts decide later that they're invalid late friday just a samuel

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...did order election officials to keep the ballot separate democrats say

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they're already doing that but he did not block the state from counting them he asked for a

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response from the state by two o'clock this afternoon and then in state lawsuits in

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pennsylvania the republicans are suing to stop the counting of any provisional ballots

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that were cast to let voters fix mistakes on filling out mail-in

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ballot so not all provisional is just that subset but even if all these republican

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efforts succeeded doesn't appear based on the numbers so far that it would affect enough

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votes to take away the biden lead in pennsylvania and there are no other lawsuits peter now

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pending in any other battle ground state that have a significant effect on the vote count either all

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right pete williams in dc today p thank you very much?