Posted on 12/08/2020 9:33:08 AM PST by Heartlander
Let’s get this out in the open. The summers are miserable, the obsession with football is unhealthy, and it’s a pain having to add 10 minutes to any stop you make because Texans are so chatty. But sometimes Texas does something so downright Texan, you have to climb on your neighbor’s pick-up and shout, “Yee-Haw!”
Just before midnight, the State of Texas threw its massive weight into the election fraud fight. Texas sued Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on the grounds their ad-hock changes to election procedures were unconstitutional. And as a result, violated the rights of Texans and those in other states that followed the constitution. Don’t mess with Texas, indeed.
What’s more, Texas isn’t fiddling around with lower courts. They marched straight to the Supreme Court. And they are requesting the Supreme Court order the offending states to allow their legislatures to appoint their presidential electors.
Breitbart was the first major outlet with the story, and breaks down the argument the Lone Star State is making.
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.
In their lawsuit, Texas claims “certain officials in the Defendant States” presented the COVID pandemic “as the justification for ignoring state laws regarding absentee and mail-in balloting.” As streiff at Redstate noted, “there’s no pandemic escape hatch in the constitution.”
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Posted many times already.
Already lived here 60+ years.
WOW!!
But they missed ARIZONA!!!!
Nice! Sounds like the suit is well grounded. But it’s 2020 the year of lawlessness and strangeness so who the heck knows what judges will say.
This could make the stand at the ALAMO look like child’s play.
Hopefully, more like the victory at San Jacinto.
Wish I could move back. I lived in Texas 30+ years. I have rued every day I have been gone. And no, I can’t move back because I have a disease that is seriously enhanced in a generally hot environment and now I am too old. Dang.
My love for Texas and Texana remains stead fast.
On the other hand, I worry that all those Califorassians will make it an entirely different state. That would be really sad...but look at what they allowed to happen to California. They would never fight back...I think I would not like them as neighbors.
I just don't trust that political Hack Roberts to not work overtime finding one of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or Barrett to flip.
74 + million Americans were disenfranchised by the voter fraud in MI, PA, WI and GA.
BTTT.
5.56mm
They must think they have enough evidence from those states to flip the election w/o AZ. OR, the AZ evidence is not strong enough.
I found a reference to this Judge on twitter
I assume this is the case
Hopefully, PA plaintiffs know about it to respond to PA argument they just filed
https://takecareblog.com/blog/how-to-decide-a-very-close-election-for-presidential-electors-part-2
But the Democrats still wanted a recount, and, as the calendar turned toward December, key deadlines approached for Hawaii officials. December 13, 1960 was the “safe harbor” day provided by 3 U.S.C. § 5. That means that, if an elector slate is certified as having been validly appointed on or before that day, Congress will presume that slate to have been validly appointed when the electoral votes are counted on January 6. At that moment in time, Governor Keahola’s November 28 certificate was the only one that could possibly get “safe harbor” status, so the Republicans argued in late November that a recount “would serve no useful purpose.”
State Circuit Court Judge Ronald Jamieson disagreed. Rather, on December 14, he ordered the recount to begin. Three days later, the Democratic slate edged ahead of the Republicans by twenty-one votes after thirty-four of the state’s 240 precincts had been counted. Kennedy’s lead grew to fifty-five by Sunday Dec. 18, the day before the presidential electors were scheduled to cast their electoral votes.
This case doesn’t require evidence, it hangs on the law being changed illegally, before the election.
Agreed. Roberts may try to force Gorsuch, Cavanaugh AND Barrett to recuse themselves. There is no way that President Trump is going to win in the courts. When even his judicial appointees turn on him, you know the fix is in.
Allowing this fraud to stand means the end of the Republic unless we patriots stand up. 4th box is ready to open; the first three are dead.
The Jay Sekulow show has only been talking about this case for their full hour.
They actually mentioned this possibility on their show yesterday, which they described as an “original jurisdiction” issue that could be filed by a state that had a clean election. This has it’s roots in equal protection, due process, etc.
The overall premise is that the legally voting state has seen it’s votes “watered down” by states that did not conduct legal elections themselves.
Sekulow believes this case is not only strong, but wraps the whole Presidential fiasco up conveniently into one case for the SCOTUS.
The other case, involving just judge Alito so far, is now far less likely to provide the overall remedy that we seek, and that case is actually somewhat contradictory with regard to the potential remedy of the Texas case.
So all eyes on this case, most probably for now.
You can watch the replay here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0YwuBz1PNU
He said they would come back on live of the SCOTUS took some action today.
See my post #19 please.
What could get really interesting is, if the SCOTUS does pick this Texas case up, then I’m assuming they would immediately ask the accused states to file their responses.
Some (most?) of these states legal apparatuses are controlled by Democrats, but they have Republican controlled Legislatures, which could be part of the proposed remedy. But GA would be especially interesting, with the crooked RINO’s down there, and what their response would be. We can probably guess, but their rope just keeps getting longer.
Our action would be to call upon the state legislative bodies to enjoin with amicus briefs, to get their voices heard as well.
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