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Tokyo Sand

11 Dec, 8 tweets, 2 min read

You must read what the four Attorneys General have said in their 🔥 response to the #TexasCase for #SCOTUS.

Thankfully, we have these AGs in battleground states standing up for the Constitution, federalism, and representative democracy. // Mini-thread

AG Josh Shapiro (PA):

"Texas's effort to get this Court to pick the next President has no basis in law or fact. The Court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated."

AG Dana Nessel (MI):

"The election in Michigan is over. Texas comes as a stranger to this matter and should not be heard here."

AG Chris Carr (GA):

"Texas presses a generalized grievance that does not involve the sort of direct state-against-state controversy required for original jurisdiction."

AG Josh Kaul (WI):

"[This is an] extraordinary intrusion into Wisconsin's and the other defendant States' elections, a task that the Constitution leaves to each State."

If you live in a state that has signed on to Texas' stupid, seditious case, you should call your Attorney General's office and give them an earful.

This article has the list of states involved:
reuters.com/article/usa-el…

You can find their contact info by using this tool. (After you find your state, you might need to scroll to the bottom of the website to get the contact info.)
usa.gov/state-attorney…

https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1337135543373733889?s=20

And if you are represented by one of the 106 congressional Republicans who has signed on, be sure to call/email and give them hell.

Here's the list:

https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1337135543373733889?s=20

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