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Sen. Murkowski says she’s disappointed by efforts of fellow Republicans to reverse presidential election results
By Mike DeBonis and John Wagner
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) said Friday that she is disappointed by the efforts of fellow Republicans in Congress and at the state level to press the Supreme Court to reverse the results of the presidential election, particularly so close to the scheduled vote of the electoral college Monday.
“In fairness, I am really surprised and disappointed that … there would be an effort by members, effort by states that are not even impacted in the sense of the challenges, that there would be this effort following all of the court rulings that have set aside or disposed of any questions with regard to voting irregularity,” Murkowski said. “So yeah, I’m surprised. But even more so, I was just really disappointed that this is continuing in this way.”
More than 100 congressional Republicans have signed onto an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit from the Republican attorney general of Texas that asks the Supreme Court to negate the votes of four battleground states that Biden won over Trump.
Murkowski said she was not asked to join that effort.
“I don’t think that they would send one to my office,” she said. “I have clearly said President-elect Biden and VP-elect Harris are going to be beginning a new administration in January.”
