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8 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing four battleground states — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — whose election results handed the White House to president-elect Joe Biden. bit.ly/3lW6VIs
In the suit, he claims that pandemic-era changes to election procedures in those states violated federal law, and asks the U.S. Supreme Court to block the states from voting in the Electoral College.
The last-minute bid, which legal experts have already characterized as a longshot, comes alongside dozens of similar attempts by President Donald Trump and his political allies.

The majority of those lawsuits have already failed.
There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, officials in most states and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr have said.

Biden won in all four states where Paxton is challenging the results. bit.ly/3lW6VIs
Paxton, who has been under indictment since 2015 for felony securities fraud charges, is facing fresh criminal allegations from eight of his top deputies, who said they believe he broke the law by using the agency to do favors for a political donor. bit.ly/3qLItxl

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If Congress doesn’t enact a new relief bill soon, many Texans will lose at least some of their benefits. bit.ly/2JSyllq
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1/ Because of the holiday weekend, you will likely notice two weird changes in reported COVID-19 data over the next week.

@COVID19Tracking explains why both expected changes don’t necessarily mean anything about the state of the pandemic itself.
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Texas GOP Chairman Allen West stopped short of saying Ken Paxton should resign as he faces criminal accusations.

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