I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, December 9th.

Just five days to go before the electoral college is scheduled to vote. And the presidential election disputes

have only now made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is what President Trump wanted. He retweeted

a doctored photo someone created of Justice Amy Coney-Barrant that looked like lasers were shooting

out of her eyes. He tweeted that just yesterday.

But last night, the court denied the lawsuit to throw out Pennsylvania's result.

It was a terse one-line denial with no dissent noted.

But it's not over yet.

The Attorney General of Texas has filed a suit in which basically Texas asked the Supreme Court

to throw out the election results in four other states.

Of course, they are Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

The court has given the four state defendants until tomorrow afternoon to respond.

We'll talk about that and more now with Susan Glasser,

who writes the New Yorker magazine column called Letter from Trump's Washington.

She will almost certainly have to rename the column next month,

but the Supreme Court may yet have something to say about that.

Susan is also the author with her husband, New York Times,

Washington Bureau Chief Peter Baker, of the new book, or I should say White House Bureau Chief,

Peter Baker, of the new book, the man who ran Washington about former Treasury Secretary,

Secretary of State and Republican Power Lawyer in the Bush v. Gore post-election battles,

James Baker. Susan, always a pleasure.

Welcome back to WNYC. Oh, thank you so much, Brian, for having me. Now, wait, did I get Peter's title right the first time or the second time? Is the White House?

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