Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued a statement Friday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge by Texas to the Presidential election results in four key battleground states.

Kansas was among 17 states joining Texas in the lawsuit.  There were also 120 Republican members of the U.S. House who supported the action, including Congressmen Ron Estes and Roger Marshall of Kansas.

After the court rejected the petition, Schmidt said “Kansas filed a brief in this case, as we have in others, seeking an answer to an important and potentially recurring federal constitutional question involving the role of states in federal elections. My office also received more than 15,000 calls and emails urging us to ask the Supreme Court to hear the Texas arguments. Today the Supreme Court decided not to become involved in the 2020 election, and the Court’s decision means it is time to put this election behind us.”