Texas Asks US Supreme Court to Rule Election in All Four Main Battleground States Unconstitutional, throwing election to Trump
[source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-files-supreme-court-election-lawsuit-against-four-battleground-states_3609460.html]
The state of Texas on Tuesday filed an election lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, alleging that the states unconstitutionally changed election laws, treated voters unequally, and triggered significant voting irregularities by relaxing ballot-integrity measures.
“Plaintiff State respectfully submits that the foregoing types of electoral irregularities exceed the hanging-chad saga of the 2000 election in their degree of departure from both state and federal law,” the Supreme Court motion (pdf) states. “Moreover, these flaws cumulatively preclude knowing who legitimately won the 2020 election and threaten to cloud all future elections.”
The lawsuit seeks a determination by the court that the four battleground states conducted the 2020 election in violation of the Constitution. Texas is asking the Supreme Court to prohibit the counting of the Electoral College votes cast by the four states. For the states which have already appointed electors, the lawsuit asks the court to direct the state legislatures to appoint new electors in line with the Constitution.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the challenge on the day of the so-called safe-harbor deadline. The cumulative electoral votes in the four states are enough to determine the outcome of the 2020 election.
“Trust in the integrity of our election processes is sacrosanct and binds our citizenry and the States in this Union together. Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin destroyed that trust and compromised the security and integrity of the 2020 election,” Paxton said in a statement.
“The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution. By ignoring both state and federal law, these states have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but of Texas and every other state that held lawful elections,” he added. “Their failure to abide by the rule of law casts a dark shadow of doubt over the outcome of the entire election. We now ask that the Supreme Court step in to correct this egregious error.”
The Trump campaign and third-party groups have pending legal challenges in all of the states, but to date, only a lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania Republicans has escalated to the nation’s highest court. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ordered briefs for that case to be submitted by Tuesday morning, signaling that a decision on a temporary restraining order is imminent.
The primary argument by the plaintiff centers on the enactment of election laws, rules, and procedures in the four states which allegedly breached the Constitution’s divestment of the power to appoint electors to state legislatures.
For example, the secretaries of state in Pennsylvania and Georgia “abrogated” state statutes requiring “signature verification for absentee or mail-in ballots,” the lawsuit states.
In Wisconsin, the state’s election commission “and other local officials unconstitutionally modified Wisconsin election laws—each time taking steps that weakened, or did away with, established security procedures” established “to ensure absentee ballot integrity.” The Wisconsin Election Commission, for example, undertook a campaign to set up ballot drop boxes throughout the states, including unmanned ones.
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……Ted Cruz Says He’ll Argue for Pennsylvania Lawsuit if SCOTUS Takes Case
High-profile Texas senator says he will present oral arguments to Supreme Court
[JdN: In my opinion, white Cuban-American Ted Cruz — whose father lost everything to the communist Castro — a big Tea Party activist at leftard Harvard , is setting himself up to run for president in 2020, and he might just win if he does, and with Trump’s full blessing.
Except for supporting Israel, Cruz is good on almost every issue.
And good for him for reconciling with Trump even after the bitter 2015-16 Republican presidential primaries.]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has announced that he will present oral arguments before the Supreme Court on behalf of the Pennsylvania election lawsuit if the SCOTUS agrees to hear the case.
Senator Cruz, one of America’s highest-profile lawmakers, said on Monday he will back President Donald Trump’s campaign by presenting the election fraud case out of Pennsylvania if the nation’s highest court decides to take the appeal.
“Petitioner’s legal team has asked me whether I would be willing to argue the case before the Supreme Court if the Court grants certiorari,” Cruz said in a statement to Fox News.
“I have agreed, and told them that, if the Court takes the appeal, I will stand ready to present the oral argument.”
“As I said last week, the bitter division and acrimony we see across the Nation needs resolution,” he added.
“I believe the Supreme Court has a responsibility to the American people to ensure, within its powers, that we are following the law and following the Constitution.”
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Last month, a group of individuals led by Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly (R) and GOP congressional candidate Sean Parnell filed a lawsuit arguing that universal mail-in voting is unconstitutional in the state.
According to USA Today, the petitioners seek to “invalidate more than 2.5 million mail-in ballots that Pennsylvanians used to vote in the Nov. 3 election.”
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously threw out the case, so Kelly and his co-petitioners filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to The Blaze.
Sen. Cruz then promptly issued a statement urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Kelly’s and Parnell’s appeal, saying that the case “raises serious legal issues” and arguing that “hearing this case now — on an emergency expedited basis — would be an important step in helping rebuild confidence in the integrity of our democratic system.”
Now, Cruz says he will personally argue the case if the Supreme Court agrees to hear it.
WATCH:
If #SCOTUS grants cert in the PA election case, I have told the petitioners I will stand ready to present the oral argument.
Full statement below… pic.twitter.com/EnHxjqGR5K
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 7, 2020
“Because of the importance of the legal issues presented, I’ve publicly urged #SCOTUS to hear the case brought by Congressman Mike Kelly, congressional candidate Sean Parnell & state rep. candidate Wanda Logan challenging the constitutionality of the POTUS election results in PA,” the senator tweeted Monday.
Repeating a statement he first delivered to Fox News, Cruz explained, “Petitioners’ legal team has asked me whether I would be willing to argue the case before #SCOTUS, if the Court grants certiorari.
“I have agreed, and told them that, if the Court takes the appeal, I will stand ready to present the oral argument.”
He added, “As I said last week, the bitter division and acrimony we see across the Nation needs resolution.
“I believe #SCOTUS has a responsibility to the American People to ensure, within its powers, that we are following the law and following the Constitution.”
Several state courts have seen election challenges filed in the wake of the general election.
Dozens have been filed by attorneys representing President Trump and his campaign, who allege that widespread voter fraud and irregularities are behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s projected win.
Neither President Trump nor his campaign is listed as petitioners in Kelly and Parnell’s case.
Over the weekend, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito moved up the deadline for the high court to respond to the plaintiffs from Wednesday to Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. ET.
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When 1776 becomes a needed response to judicial treason, if the President won’t or can’t invoke law and order.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020
It is time to release the Kraken of the Insurrection Act Mr. President
” The frauds of the Supreme Court waited until the dark hours of America to be the cowards they are and patsies of the deep state to state that Texas and 16 other States were not “injured parties” in other corrupt Biden states cheating in stealing the election from Donald Trump.
Supreme Court rejects Texas’ effort to overturn election in fatal blow to Trump legal blitz to stop Biden
While the suit attracted President Trump’s support and was endorsed by many Republicans in Congress, it suffered from several legal and factual shortcomings.”
“If having your entire state’s votes obliterated by other states cheating is not an injury, then it proves what corruption the US courts all are.”
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2020/12/it-is-time-to-release-kraken-of.html
Supreme Court rejects Texas’ effort to overturn election in fatal blow to Trump legal blitz to stop Biden
The court’s ruling was essentially a unanimous rejection of the Texas claims.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-texas-effort-overturn-election-fatal-blow-trump-n1250883