Trying to catch up and process this mess.
The Supreme Court’s order pertaining to:
“TEXAS V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.
The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of
complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of
the Constitution.”
However, in your shared link, Professor Toto, aka Shane Vaughn of First Harvest Ministries in Mississippi, suggests that our issue is found in The Guarantee Clause, Article IV, Section 1. He states that although Texas did not bring up this clause in their petition to the Supreme Court, Idaho, Alaska, and Arizona did...
https://constitutionallawreporter.com/guarantee-clause/
ARTICLE IV: THE GUARANTEE CLAUSE
Text of Constitution:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
Prof. Toto continues by pointing out that the guarantee of “a Republican Form of Government,” was interpreted by the Supreme Court in 1947, as being “a fundamental idea... that no one can be declared elected until he or she receives a majority or a plurality of the LEGAL votes cast in the election.”
(I am still searching for a link to the referenced USSC 1947 decision.)
This fiasco is not yet over.
((hugs))
~ lyby
IIRC the filings by ID, AZ, AK were also denied, so they’d need to file again with the Article IV approach, and include the USSC 1947 decision.