BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed an *election* lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the United States Supreme Court.
Texas brought the suit straight to SCOTUS. Key allegations:
1. Unconstitutional changes to election laws 2. Unequal treatment of voters within each state 3. Voting irregularities "consistent with
the unconstitutional relaxation of ballot-integrity
protections."
From the bill of complaint: "These flaws cumulatively preclude knowing who legitimately won the 2020 election and threaten to cloud all future elections."
"Our Country stands at an important crossroads. Either the Constitution matters and must be followed, even when some officials consider it inconvenient or out of date, or it is simply a piece of parchment on display at the National Archives.We ask the Court to choose the former."
On the Electoral College deadline: "That deadline ... should not cement a potentially illegitimate election result in the middle of this storm—a storm that is of the Defendant States’ own making by virtue of their own unconstitutional actions."
"To safeguard public legitimacy at this unprecedented moment and restore public trust in the presidential election, this Court should extend the December 14, 2020 deadline for Defendant States’ certification of presidential electors to allow these investigations to be completed."
TX cites quotes Gorsuch opinion, saying this case is no different: “Government is not free to disregard the [Constitution] in times of crisis. … Yet recently, during the COVID pandemic, certain States seem to have ignored these long-settled principles.”
"The probability of former Vice President
Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant
States ... independently given President Trump’s
early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4,
2020, is less than one in a quadrillion, or 1 in
1,000,000,000,000,000."
"The probability of former Vice President
Biden winning the popular vote in the four Defendant
States ... independently given President Trump’s
early lead in those States as of 3 a.m. on November 4,
2020, is less than one in a quadrillion, or 1 in
1,000,000,000,000,000."
"For former Vice President Biden to win these four States collectively, the odds of that event happening decrease to less than one in a quadrillion to the fourth power."
FUTURE: “In addition to injunctive relief for this election, Plaintiff State seeks declaratory relief for all presidential elections in the future. This problem is clearly capable of repetition yet evading review.”
Top Democrat election lawyer comment on this SCOTUS lawsuit:
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The following 8 paragraphs of legal background in the Texas SCOTUS election case are a fascinating historical context worth sharing in a mini thread:
“The individual citizen has no federal
constitutional right to vote for electors for the
President of the United States unless and until the
state legislature chooses a statewide election as the
means to implement its power to appoint members of
the electoral college.”
State legislatures have plenary power to
set the process for appointing presidential electors:
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the
Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors.”
U.S. CONST. art. II, §1, cl. 2
Is @UPS supposed to carry official election material? Because I and three #DominionWatch volunteers saw a UPS truck picking up a ballet of boxes marked "official absentee" from the Secretary of State's warehouse.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed an emergency motion on Sunday which included a message from an election official stating that the ballot-counting machines would be reset to zero on Monday, Nov. 30, before performing a recount:
When the poll watcher brought up his concern about wiping the machines to the election manager, the manager said: “It's what we are supposed to do."
PA certified the presidential and vice-presidential elections yesterday. In an emergency brief filed before midnight last night, the Republican plaintiffs pointed out that there was no need to act so fast. PA certified on Dec. 12 in 2016.
3rd monitor, a Democrat: "Hundreds of these ballots seemed impeccable, with no folds or creases. The bubble selections were perfectly made ... only observed selections in black ink, and all
happened to be selections for Biden."
"Based on my observations, I believe there was fraud was committed in the presidential election and question the validity of the Georgia recount process."