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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

False 2020 election ruling attributed to the Supreme Court - The Associated Press - en Español

CLAIM: The U.S. Supreme Court voted to overturn the 2020 election results.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The Supreme Court has not voted to overturn any 2020 election results. Past legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election have failed in lower courts.

THE FACTS: False claims that the justices overturned the 2020 election have spread widely on several social media platforms in recent days, including Twitter and Facebook.

“BREAKING: SCOTUS has voted to overturn the 2020 election results, Justices have been placed into protective care, according to a recent leaked report,” one Twitter user wrote on Saturday. The tweet was shared over 2,000 times.

The claims are baseless. There has been no ruling issued by the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election results, and there is no evidence of any “leaked report” about such a ruling in the news. All the court’s rulings from the latest term, which began in October 2021, can be found on its website.

The court has rejected previous legal challenges filed by former President Donald Trump and his allies to election results in various states that Biden won, such as Pennsylvania and Arizona, The Associated Press reported in February 2021.

The Supreme Court began its summer recess on June 30. The justices won’t return to the courtroom until October, although they occasionally issue orders during the summer in response to emergency appeals in death row and other cases.

The Supreme Court’s public information office did not respond to the...



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