The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from Pennsylvania officials on Tuesday to hear a lawsuit that would overturn the state's election results.

In the state's response to the suit, they called it “nothing less than an affront to constitutional democracy.”

“It should meet a swift and decisive end,” the state's response concluded.

U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, and several other Republican candidates are behind the suit. On Dec. 1, they asked the Supreme Court in an appeal for an emergency injunction to halt and nullify certification of the state's 2020 federal election results. In the state's Tuesday response to the U.S Supreme Court, it noted that Kelly and the others are asking the highest court to do something that's never been done: overturning presidential election results that have a governor's certification.

“The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,” read the court's short order.

The appeal to the Supreme Court came three days after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dropped the lawsuit that sought to throw out 2.5 million mail-in ballots cast in the Nov. 3 election. It concluded that Kelly and the others, known as petitioners, waited too long to challenge the state's mail-in voting law known as Act 77.

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