today:
179
yesterday:
665
Total:
1,581,392

US News

Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court against four battleground states over their “tainted” election results, told Fox News on Dec. 8 that he hopes the high court will decide to take up the case and consider it on its merits.

In the lawsuit (pdf), with the state of Texas as plaintiff, Paxton alleges that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin introduced last-minute, unconstitutional changes to election laws, treated voters unequally, and triggered significant voting irregularities by relaxing ballot-integrity measures.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the defendant states to respond to Texas’ motions by 3 p.m. Dec. 10.

“That’s a good sign, I really appreciate that the court has asked the other states to respond,” Paxton told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

“So we have a chance, hopefully, after they respond, to go to the court and make our arguments on both sides and at least let the Supreme Court make a decision on what is the law in this case, a question that they’ve never answered as it relates to the facts that we’re presenting,” Paxton said.

Many of the legal challenges brought by the Trump legal team and others have been dismissed on technical grounds, such as standing, or laches, which is essentially the notion that plaintiffs waited too long to assert their rights by filing a claim. Paxton’s remarks reflect an interest in seeing the court hear and weigh the evidence and adjudicate based on merit.

In the complaint, Paxton argues that the four battleground states had acted in a way that violated their own election laws and thereby breached the Constitution through enacting and implementing measures, rules, and procedures right before the Nov. 3 election.

In some instances, the defendant states enacted such measures through the use of so-called friendly lawsuits, in which the plaintiff and the defendant collude to procure a court order, the lawsuit alleges. In other instances, a variety of state election officials allegedly exceeded their authority to promulgate rules and procedures that should have been enacted by each state’s legislature, as required by the Constitution’s Elections and Electors clause.

“The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution. By ignoring both state and federal law, these states have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but of Texas and every other state that held lawful elections,” Paxton said in a statement.

Paxton also argued that the actions he outlined in his complaint “constitute non-legislative changes to State election law by executive-branch State election officials, or by judicial officials” and, as such, votes cast by Electoral College electors pursuant to these actions should not be considered constitutionally valid.

The lawsuit is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to prohibit the count of the Electoral College votes cast by the four states. For the defendant states that have already appointed electors, it asks the court to direct the state legislatures to appoint new electors in line with the Constitution.

Meanwhile, on Dec. 9, the states of Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia all signed on to a brief that backs the Texas suit.

Attorneys general from the defendant states have disputed the allegations in the Texas lawsuit. The Supreme Court ordered the states to reply by 3 p.m. on Dec. 10.

Texas AG Ken Paxton asks Supreme Court to overturn Trump's defeat by  negating 10M votes in four states

No. Subject
Notice America's Anthem
473 Breaking Trump News 7PM 12/15/20 [FULL] - Newsmax Greg Kelly Breaking Trump News Dec 15, 2020
472 Attorney General Bill Barr file
471 Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Pandemic Doesn’t Exempt Voters From Proving Identity
470 2020 Election Investigation: Who Is Stealing America?
469 Crucial Logs Missing From Antrim County Dominion Voting Machines: Forensics Report
468 VOTER FRAUD
467 EXCLUSIVE: Swalwell DEFENDED CHINA Over Criticism | Rep. Kevin McCarthy | Huckabee
466 Irregularities, Fraud Caused Trump to Lose Wisconsin: Election Commissioner
465 Dominion Offers to Testify in Michigan Amid Allegations Its Machines Can Switch Votes
464 One America News 8PM 12/09/20 | BREAKING NEWS TRUMP 8PM Dec 09, 2020
463 Sean Hannity 12/09/20 | BREAKING FOX News Today Dec 09, 2020
462 New probe into Hunter Biden; Georgia lawmakers to join Texas SCOTUS suit; Pompeo calls to reject CCP
461 Georgia County Refuses to Certify Recount of Election Vote
» Texas AG Hopes Supreme Court Will Take Up Election Case, Hear Arguments
459 17 States Urge Supreme Court to Review Texas Bid Challenging Election Results in 4 States
458 China Insider: Powell: Planeload of Fake Chinese-Made Ballots Arrive from Mexico
457 Former Special Forces Officer Warns of Disinformation Warfare Targeting Trump’s Allies
456 Trump Asks Supreme Court for Permission to Join Texas Election Lawsuit
455 Arizona Supreme Court Agrees to Hear GOP Election Challenge Lawsuit
454 Trump Campaign Asks Michigan Supreme Court to Declare That Election Process Violated State Constitution