10 things you need to know today: December 9, 2020

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1. Supreme Court refuses to block Pennsylvania ruling preserving Biden win

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down Pennsylvania Republicans' effort to block the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win over President Trump in the state. The ruling marked the latest in a series of setbacks for Trump and his allies in their effort to reverse the election's outcome, but it marked the first election challenge to be rejected by the Supreme Court. Pennsylvania's top court had ruled against the GOP attempt to get the state's mail-in ballots discarded, which would have tipped the state to Trump. The Supreme Court said in a one-sentence ruling that it would not block the Pennsylvania high court's decision. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court noted that the plaintiffs' post-election challenge of the state law permitting mail-in voting risked "the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvania voters."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.