Texas asks U.S. Supreme Court to Overturn Battleground States’ Votes

BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court REJECTS Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election

The court, in a brief unsigned order, said Texas lacked standing to pursue the case, saying it “has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.”

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Arizona Democrats celebrated their victory against Donald Trump’s newest challenge, while Texas filed a desperate motion, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the votes in four battleground states: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

The Arizona lawsuit brought by Trump electors, including GOP Chair Kelli Ward—claims “massive election fraud” involving illegal votes, foreign interference, and fraudulent Dominion voting machines.

Judge Diane Humetewa, of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, said if the plaintiffs won, “millions of Arizonans who exercised their individual right to vote in the 2020 Election would be utterly disenfranchised.” See GOP Lawyer Filed a Legal Bag of Trash to Overturn Election

The affidavits, she said, were “largely based on anonymous witnesses, hearsay, and irrelevant analysis of unrelated elections.”

“Allegations that find favor in the public sphere of gossip and innuendo cannot be a substitute for earnest pleadings and procedure in federal court,” Humetewa wrote in her blistering ruling.

“They most certainly cannot be the basis for upending Arizona’s 2020 General Election. The court is left with no alternative but to dismiss this matter in its entirety,” the judge said.

Neo-Nazis

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, hailed the verdict, calling Trump’s base “neo-Nazis.” “Today’s dismissal of the election lawsuit marks a turning point in our democratic process,” Hobbs said.

“It’s time for us to turn our attention to rebuilding our faith in each other. My sincerest concern about each of these legal actions was never that they would invalidate the results, but were instead intended to create discord and dissolution, further exploiting divisions in our communities.”

“Although the courts have dismissed these claims, the damage has been done. We are emerging from an election cycle that has further normalized vitriol and violence,” Hobbs concluded.

The Bizarre Case from Texas

Meanwhile, a suit brought by 18 Republican attorneys general and Trump asks the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency ruling invalidating the ballots of millions of voters in four battleground states: Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

If the plaintiffs were to prevail, the 270 electoral votes Biden needs to win the election would be toppled.

The 18 Red states siding with Texas and Trump include Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.

Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the Texas lawsuit.

“What Texas is doing in this proceeding is to ask this court to reconsider a mass of baseless claims about problems with the election that have already been considered, and rejected, by this court and other courts,” wrote Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic attorney general, in a filing to the nine justices.

Chris Carr, Georgia’s Republican attorney general, wrote in a filing, “The novel and far-reaching claims that Texas asserts, and the breathtaking remedies it seeks, are impossible to ground in legal principles and unmanageable.”

Rejected

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the petition from Pennsylvania Republicans to invalidate the state’s votes. It issued its unanimous ruling in one short sentence.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton, who filed the lawsuit, alleges that. “using the Covid-19 pandemic as a justification for using mail-in ballots, unconstitutionally revised their state’s election statutes.”

He noted that these ballots were placed in “drop boxes” with “little or no chain of custody.”

Senator John Cornyn, the senior Texas Republican, wasn’t buying in.

“I frankly struggle to understand the legal theory of it,” he said. “Number one, why would a state, even such a great state as Texas, have a say-so on how other states administer their elections? ”

Trump’s Motion

Trump’s motion alleged, “Our Country is deeply divided in ways that it arguably has not been seen since the election of 1860.

“There is a high level of distrust between the opposing sides, compounded by the fact that, in the election just held, election officials in key swing states, for apparently partisan advantage, failed to conduct their state elections in compliance with state election law.”

Trump’s lawyers include:

• Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and attorney Jenna Ellis, who are both recovering from COVID.
• John Eastman, renowned for his birther claim that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris may not be qualified for the position, as her parents were immigrants.
• GOP Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, and Texas’ former solicitor general.

It’s not clear whether the Supreme Court will hear the case.