I’ve made other comments on the PA response following here:
BREAKING: Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives Joins Texas in Suit Against Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3914194/posts?page=98#97
Also ridiculous:
“According to Texas, the alleged violations of Pennsylvania’s Election Code undermined the authority granted to the Pennsylvania General Assembly under the Electors Clause.8Motion at 3, 10-11, 13-15. But as the text of the Electors Clause itself makes clear, the injury caused by the alleged usurpation of the General Assembly’s constitutional authority belongs to that institution...”
which institution (you had to see this coming ?) has just joined the lawsuit claiming their authority was in fact wrongly usurped...
BREAKING: Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives Joins Texas in Suit Against Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3914287/posts
Beyond ridiculous:
“Texas has no sovereign or quasi-sovereign interest at stake. It is a nominal party, at best.”
Texas seems to think that other states have to sustain their agreement to fully and willingly abide by their own laws, in good faith, abide by the laws of the United States, in good faith, and comply with the Constitution, in good faith, and if they do not, and if they will not be corrected in the need to sustain that commitment, then the Constitution has been dissolved:
Texit? State representative will file bill to allow Texas to secede from the United States
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3914330/posts
The Pennsylvania response... is a NON-SERIOUS effort.
It is a clown show. They appear unaware of the facts and the law, not only in relation to specifics in the complaint they’re responding to... but even in how they relate to their own arguments in response.
They are badly confused on the courts own criteria for hearing cases under original jurisdiction... even conflating cases between states with cases between states and individuals in other states... apparently hoping the Justices will fail to notice that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia are not persons, but states, thus hoping they’ll chose to not take a case between a state and persons in another state ? And, all of it is that bad...
It is so bad that it is painful to read... and it makes it painfully clear that the defendants are (deliberately ?) ignorant of both the facts and the law... are not depending on an informed, much less a fully proper and skilled reading of the law, or their skills in argument as lawyers to succeed...
What are they expecting in this should enable a success ?
Whatever it is, it isn’t really present in this filing.
They phoned it in ? Too busy making other plans ?
Having read enough... my take on it...
Either Texas wins... or if this pile of garbage in a reply “succeeds” in preventing that... Texas probably (and, in that case, quite probably rightly) secedes...
I’ve mostly dismissed this sort of language, before now...
‘There cannot be a peaceful coexistence’: Rush Limbaugh says the US is ‘trending towards SECESSION’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3914332/posts