Yesterday, Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) announced a lawsuit in the Supreme Court challenging the presidential election results in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Michigan. Reminder: President-elect Joe Biden won those battleground states. And the Trump campaign’s been challenging the results – baselessly claiming voter fraud – with no success. Now, Paxton’s added to the legal drama, claiming that all four states used the pandemic to illegally change voting procedures to expand mail-in voting. (State officials have said they’ve found no evidence of election fraud.) Texas is asking the high court to declare the results unconstitutional. And to delay the Dec 14 deadline for the Electoral College to make Biden’s victory official. Louisiana and Alabama’s AGs support Paxton’s move.
Texas AG Ken Paxton, Under FBI Investigation, Asks SCOTUS to Overturn the Election
By MARK JOSEPH STERN
On Tuesday morning, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked the Supreme Court to effectively declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election. Paxton’s lawsuit … accuses Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin of counting invalid votes in violation of the Constitution. It asks the justices to remedy this alleged misconduct by forcing all four states’ legislatures to throw out every vote and appoint electors who support Trump. Paxton is reportedly under investigation by the FBI for alleged bribery and abuse of office. Read HERE and more HERE.