Author: Associated Press

High court rejects GOP bid to halt Biden’s Pennsylvania win

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment Tuesday refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump and the state’s 20 electors are to meet on…

Nikki Haley says her sister-in-law died of COVID-19

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley says her sister-in-law has died after contracting the coronavirus. Haley tweeted Tuesday evening that Rhonda Lee Nelson, sister of her husband Michael, “passed the day before Thanksgiving of Covid.” An online obituary says Nelson was 53 years old, lived in West Milton, Ohio, and died November 25. She was remembered as…

S.C. Congressman Jim Clyburn tapped to head Biden Inaugural Committee

President -Elect Joe Biden picks South Carolina Congressman Clyburn to head up committee in charge of inaugural events in January

Source: @WhipClyburn – Twitter Washington, DC. (Associated Press) — WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Joe Biden is naming some of his most prominent allies to be co-chairs for his upcoming Inauguration. Biden named Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) as the chairman for the January 20th,  swearing-in. Clyburn, The House Majority Whip, was arguably Biden’s most important proponent: it was Clyburn’s endorsement that…