Trumpworld is excited: Breitbart is reporting that the State of Texas has filed suit against MI, PA, WI and GA in the Supreme Court in an attempt to get the election results tossed out in those states.
This lawsuit ticks a lot of Trump boxes:
🟣As a dispute between states, it starts out in SCOTUS
🟣It seeks to put enough EVs in play to swing the whole election result
🟣It's the 'big beautiful lawsuit' Trump has wanted all along
Breitbart hasn't published the actual complaint, and it doesn't appear to be anywhere else yet, but we can say some things about it from their reporting:
1. This is not a fraud claim. There won't be any Dominion or Chavez or North Korean submarines shipping Dem votes etc in it.
From the tiny excerpts published, it sounds like the Texas claim is essentially "These states didn't follow their own election rules and that's not fair on Texans"
Anyone who's been following all the election cases so far can tell you how judges have reacted to this vote dilution argument so far. To assert that the State of Texas is injured because of vote-curing in Dane County, Wisconsin is... well, it's a stretch.
Not to mention that basically all of the claims raised here have been heard in state courts, federal district courts and even circuit courts already. There's nothing new here beyond a weak attempt to create injury and exploit original jurisdiction.
For a state to initiate proceedings against others at SCOTUS, it needs first to apply for leave to file a complaint. The respondent states can then get a chance to argue why the complaint shouldn't even be heard.
If leave is granted, that usually starts a LONG process of actual argument that can take months or years.
I'm not worried at all about this case. Texas can't show any harm it's been caused. This whole thing is a PR stunt, it's not a genuine legal process.
That said, I'll be happier when @questauthority wakes up to tell me it's all ok.
Trump has filed to intervene in Texas' attempt to overturn the US election. But who REALLY wrote his lawsuit? Let's find out. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…
According to the metadata, Trump's legal intervention wasn't written by John Eastman, the Counsel of Record. It was written by someone else: Lawrence Joseph.
Who is Lawrence Joseph? Well, he's one of the lawyers in the original Texas complaint, listed as the "Special Counsel to the Attorney General of Texas".
The GOP's problem now is that their base will never accept any of them recognising Biden as President. Not on December 14, not on Jan 6, not on Inauguration Day.
GOP Senators and Congress members have missed the chance to jump of the crazy train. The longer they deny Biden's win, the more unacceptable they make it to ever acknowledge him.
A proportion of the elected GOP will outright claim that Biden isn't President, even after Jan 21. That's going to have consequences.
Four days after @JennaEllisEsq announced "On to SCOTUS!", the Trump Campaign has not yet petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the appeal to the 3rd Circuit's denial. The Safe Harbour deadline is in just 7 days.
@JennaEllisEsq In those 7 days, the Trump Campaign has to:
1. Get SCOTUS to grant cert 2. Argue to SCOTUS that the 3rd Circuit's denial of their motion to amend should be overturned.
3. Argue their amended motion at MDPA before Brann, who's already made it clear he will toss the case for moot/standing/badness
3 weeks ago, the idea of calling for state legislatures to ignore the election results was fringe nuttiness. Today, Trump and his lawyers are loudly demanding it.
Online Pro-Trump spaces were happy to wait for SCOTUS to "overturn" the result. As they begin to understand that won't happen, more of them are calling for a coup too.