Posted on 12/08/2020 5:41:35 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The State of Texas filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court shortly before midnight on Monday challenging the election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the grounds that they violate the Constitution.
Texas argues that these states violated the Electors Clause of the Constitution because they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts or through executive actions, but not through the state legislatures. Additionally, Texas argues that there were differences in voting rules and procedures in different counties within the states, violating the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. Finally, Texas argues that there were “voting irregularities” in these states as a result of the above.
Texas is asking the Supreme Court to order the states to allow their legislatures to appoint their electors. The lawsuit says:
Certain officials in the Defendant States presented the pandemic as the justification for ignoring state laws regarding absentee and mail-in voting. The Defendant States flooded their citizenry with tens of millions of ballot applications and ballots in derogation of statutory controls as to how they are lawfully received, evaluated, and counted. Whether well intentioned or not, these unconstitutional acts had the same uniform effect—they made the 2020 election less secure in the Defendant States. Those changes are inconsistent with relevant state laws and were made by non-legislative entities, without any consent by the state legislatures. The acts of these officials thus directly violated the Constitution.
"This case presents a question of law: Did the Defendant States violate the Electors Clause by taking non-legislative actions to change the election rules that would govern the appointment of presidential electors? These non-legislative changes to the Defendant States’ election laws facilitated the casting and counting of ballots in violation of state law..."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
By all means necessary, and all means available.
I LOVE IT...and we’ll see what happens.
But note one difference, Texas DID NOT say a word about it coming, just Trump, indirectly by saying something big was going to happen this week. No Crackins, promises of certain victories, or any of that crap - just a straight-up lawsuit for the Justices to evaluate.
Boom? Pop? Fizzle?
Very intelligent approach!
Hail Mary. But sometimes Hail Mary passes result in a score so why not?
Is this what Ted Cruz will take up on?
What each state does can affect the national outcome whereby disenfranchised voters...nullifying outcomes.
I think the argument is sound but I doubt SCOTUS will accept that Texas has standing.
Rarely.
GA, MI, PA, and WI do not have a safe harbor today
I wonder if this is the result of a call to the Mark Levin show from a clever fellow in Israel. The caller asked if one state could sue another state for corrupting the Federal Election process. Levin knew right away this man had described a course of action he had not thought of himself. Brilliant idea indeed!
Yes. Straight to the POINT.
And why would Texas file this suit? Because it affects the citizens of the State of Texas when such reckless disregard for Federal and State Constitutional Law is present.
Gigg em
Hail Mary indeed. Today is the feast day of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. Patroness of the US.
Bet they did not see this one coming!!
Yes it is!!
The Electoral College was set up to give every State standing - any States rigging what happened with the Electoral Collège affects all the other States and disenfranchises the whole process.
If the States don’t have standing, then the Electoral Collège has, in-fact, been gotten rid of and is only a sham.
I remember that and was hoping.
The timing seems perfect to keep those states out of a safe harbor at the last minute while accumulating as much legal argument and public opinion as possible beforehand
Yes. The feast day of the immaculate conception is Dec 9th. I began the 9 day novena on Nov 29th and ended on Dec.7th Perfect timing.
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