Texas Sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin at Supreme Court over Election Rules

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.

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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, which, in turn, violated the Electors Clause of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution. By these unlawful acts, the Defendant States have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but their actions have also debased the votes of citizens in Plaintiff State and other States that remained loyal to the Constitution.

Texas approached the Supreme Court directly because Article III provides that it is the court of first impression on subjects where it has original jurisdiction, such as disputes between two or more states

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/07/texas-sues-georgia-michigan-pennsylvania-and-wisconsin-at-supreme-court-election-rules/

Let the games begin.

Democrats were hoping to stall all Trump cases at the lower state courts from getting to the Scotus. Texas just delivered a sucker punch.. straight to SCOTUS!!! ,where Republicans judges are majority.

nothing will come out of it there's nothing new under the sun

CNN and other mainstream media has refused to carry this latest development.

Interesting

Abfinest007:
nothing will come out of it there's nothing new under the sun

Never say never. What Texas needs is only a supreme court backing for state legislatures to select electors going to Washington on the 14th and all this states have a republican majority state legislatures. Very doable my dear. Democrats didn't see this coming.

Jashub:
Interesting

very interesting.

Waste of resources

Juicegal:
very interesting.

One question : why is the Lamestream media not covering all this?

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HIS Will will Be Done!!
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The will of God has been done through the election of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. This particular case will also be tossed to the trash can just like the other 48 cases that Trump campaign had filed and lost.

God is not an author of confusion, he doesn’t support evil and bad losers. If God wants Trump to continue in office, he would have made majority of Americans to vote for him during the election and not use lies and falsehood to steal victory from the winner. Stop dragging God into the egoistic delusion of the orange racist that you self acclaimed evangelicals worship.

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Sultannayef:
Waste of resources

Don't be too sure, with the current Scotus , anything can happen.

The current Scotus headed by Roberts Court has become more conservative, now with six conservative justices that include Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and
Barrett (appointed by President Trump ). Dissenting in many key cases are Justices
Sotomayor and Kagan (appointed by President
Obama ), and Justice Breyer (appointed by Clinton) ( from Wikipedia)


Remove Roberts who swings most times , you still have a 5 to 4 conservative republican majority.

Jashub:
One question : why is the Lamestream media not covering all this?

It's a coordinated approach. Suppress all Trump positives news from getting out, and amplify the negative narratives.

seunmsg:


The will of God has been done through the election of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States. This particular case will also be tossed to the trash can just like the other 48 cases that Trump campaign had filed and lost.

God is not an author of confusion, he doesn’t support evil and bad losers. If God wants Trump to continue in office, he would have made majority of Americans to vote for him during the election and not use lies and falsehood to steal victory from the winner. Stop dragging God into the egoistic delusion of the orange racist that you self acclaimed evangelicals worship.

He lost all 48 cases at the Democrat leaning lower courts and not the supreme court. See the kind of hatred you have for your so called " racist Trump" yet over the years you support Buhari an acclaimed nepot and tribalist. That's the highest form of hypocrisy.

GOPs and by extension Trump are sore losers.
Georgia Governor is even a republican.

Bring all your PayPal funds and Africard funds for swift cash to Naira.

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Analysis of the case filed by Texas against four states.

Kobach: Texas Case Challenges Election Directly at Supreme Court
KRIS W. KOBACH7 Dec 20201,786

On Monday, just before midnight, the State of Texas filed a lawsuit that is far more important than all of the others surrounding the presidential election of November 3rd.

Texas brought a suit against four states that did something they cannot do: they violated the U.S. Constitution in their conduct of the presidential election. And this violation occurred regardless of the amount of election fraud that may have resulted. The four defendant states are Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.




Texas filed the suit directly in the Supreme Court. Article III of the Constitution lists a small number of categories of cases in which the Supreme Court has “original jurisdiction.” One of those categories concerns “Controversies between two or more states.” Texas’s suit is exactly that. The Supreme Court has opined in the past that it may decline to accept such cases, at its discretion. But it is incumbent upon the high court to take this case, especially when it presents a such a cut-and-dried question of constitutional law, and when it could indirectly decide who is sworn in as President on January 20, 2021.

The Texas suit is clear, and it presents a compelling case. The four offending states each violated the U.S. Constitution in two ways.

First, they violated the Electors Clause of Article II of the Constitution when executive or judicial officials in the states changed the rules of the election without going through the state legislatures. The Electors Clause requires that each State “shall appoint” its presidential electors “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct.”


In the early years of the Republic, most state legislatures appointed their presidential electors directly, without holding a popular election for President. That would change during the early decades of the nineteenth century. But the constitutional principle remained the same. Regardless of whether a state appoints its electors by a vote in the legislature or by a vote of the people, it is the state legislature — and only the state legislature — that sets the rules.



Thus, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended by three days the deadline for receiving mail-in ballots, contrary to the law passed by the state legislature, the state court changed the rules in violation of the Electors Clause. Similarly, when Georgia’s Secretary of State responded to a lawsuit by entering into a Compromise Settlement Agreement and Release (i.e. a consent decree) with the Democratic Party of Georgia, and modified the signature verification requirements spelled out by Georgia law, that changing of the rules violated the Electors Clause.

The second constitutional violation occurred when individual counties in each of the four states changed the way that they would receive, evaluate, or treat the ballots. Twenty years ago, in the landmark case of Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court held that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when one Florida county treated ballots one way, and another Florida county treated ballots a different way. Voters had the constitutional right to have their ballots treated equally from county to county.

So when election officials in Wayne County, Michigan, ignored the requirements of Michigan law and denied poll watchers access to vote counting, while other counties in Michigan followed the law, that violated the Equal Protection Clause. Similarly, in Wisconsin, when the Administrator of the City of Milwaukee Elections Commission ignored the requirements of Wisconsin law and directed election workers to write in the addresses of witnesses on the envelopes containing mail-in ballots, while ballots without witness addresses were deemed invalid elsewhere, that resulted in the unequal treatment of ballots in the state.



Importantly, the Texas lawsuit presents a pure question of law. It is not dependent upon disputed facts. Although these unconstitutional changes to the election rules could have facilitated voter fraud, the State of Texas doesn’t need to prove a single case of fraud to win. It is enough that the four states violated the Constitution.

The lawsuit asks the Supreme Court to remand the appointment of electors in the four states back to the state legislatures. As the Supreme Court said in 1892 in the case of McPherson v. Blacker, “Whatever provisions may be made by statute, or by the state constitution, to choose electors by the people, there is no doubt of the right of the legislature to resume the power at any time…”.

If Texas prevails, the four state legislatures could follow any number of courses in appointing their presidential electors. They could assess the election results and try to exclude those ballots that were counted in violation of state law in order to determine a winner, or they could divide their Electoral College votes between the two candidates, or they could follow a different path. But they have to follow the Constitution in whatever they do.

In the rest of country, the states followed the constitutional rules in appointing presidential electors. The offending states cannot be allowed to violate those same rules. It’s not just a matter of constitutional law. It’s a matter of basic fairness.

Interesting

Juicegal:
Let the games begin.

Democrats were hoping to stall all Trump cases at the lower state courts from getting to the Scotus. Texas just delivered a sucker punch.. straight to SCOTUS!!! ,where Republicans judges are majority.

Chill, nothing will come out of this case. The only thing worthy of note is that it goes straight to SCOTUS being State vs States. If Texas was so concerned about the the electoral rules & procedures of those States been unconstitutional & ultra vires they should have sued before the election & have it redressed. Not after the election. The SCOTUS can't now invalidate millions of already casted legal votes all because of such procedures.
The fact that Conservatives/Republicans are majority of the justices in SCOTUS will not really matter.
They may find that such rules or procedures where made ultra vires bt to invalidate millions of mail in votes & thus overturn the election is what they surely won't do.

Eddie4God:

Chill, nothing will come out of this case. The only thing worthy of note is that it goes straight to SCOTUS being State vs States. If Texas was so concerned about the the electoral rules & procedures of those States been unconstitutional & ultra vires they should have sued before the election & have it redressed. Not after the election. The SCOTUS can't now invalidate millions of already casted legal votes all because of such procedures.
The fact that Conservatives/Republicans are majority of the justices in SCOTUS will not really matter.
They may find that such rules or procedures where made ultra vires bt to invalidate millions of mail in votes & thus overturn the election is what they surely won't do.

You should not have wasted your time schooling juicegal allow her deceive herself further that Trump will magically win.

Biden has won the election and will be sworn in next month.
Simple as ABC

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Abortion will continue to happen but when we prioritize women's health family planning sex education this will reduce abortion.The countries where abortion is legal even have low rate of abortion because of the health system put in place which prevents unwanted pregnancy and encourages women to take charge of their own health you are not a woman unlike here where it is illegal but abortion is done in a high rate in an unsafe and dangerous environment so mind your business.If you are so concerned about children adopt homeless kids and advocate for good health care and education for less privilege children they are the ones who need your help leave the carrier of the pregnancy to decide what is best for her foetus.

Juicegal:

Never say never. What Texas needs is only a supreme court backing for state legislatures to select electors going to Washington on the 14th and all this states have a republican majority state legislatures. Very doable my dear. Democrats didn't see this coming.

the permutations you trump ass lickers have come up with in the last weeks is really funny...keep on adding and subtracting and deleting and multiplying you hear while states are busy certifying results...your lord and savior has not said in any court that he is challenging the results based on fraud but you all the way in Nnewi, knows more than his lawyers who can even file what they claim in public in court

AmazonTopaz:

I will advice you advocate for effective family planning and sex education instead of working yourself off on what a woman wants for her body.
Abortion will continue to happen but when we prioritize women's health family planning sex education this will reduce abortion.The countries where abortion is legal even have low rate of abortion because of the health system put in place which prevents unwanted pregnancy and encourages women to take charge of their own health you are not a woman unlike here where it is illegal but abortion is done in a high rate in an unsafe and dangerous environment so mind your business.If you are so concerned about children adopt homeless kids and advocate for good health care and education for less privilege children they are the ones who need your help leave the carrier of the pregnancy to decide what is best for her foetus.

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Juicegal:
Let the games begin.

Democrats were hoping to stall all Trump cases at the lower state courts from getting to the Scotus. Texas just delivered a sucker punch.. straight to SCOTUS!!! ,where Republicans judges are majority.

So, what’s the outcome of the Texas sucker punch?

So much for having Republican judges as majority in the Supreme Court. Hopefully, some of you religious bigot can learn one or two things from the outcome of this election; stop playing God no matter how enticing it is. God simply used this election to disgrace all you fake evangelicals and false prophets.

Juicegal:
Let the games begin.

Democrats were hoping to stall all Trump cases at the lower state courts from getting to the Scotus. Texas just delivered a sucker punch.. straight to SCOTUS!!! ,where Republicans judges are majority.

Sucker punch ko, licker punch ni.