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Texas AG Files Lawsuit Claiming Key Battleground States Exploited COVID to Conducted Illegal Election Practices
What is delegated to the state legislator cannot be carried out by local officials as Paxton charges was the case within the states named in his suit.
UPDATE: The U.S. Supreme court has docketed the case filed by Texas AG Ken Paxton, meaning the case will be heard by the court.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the United States Supreme Court claiming that the states had exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to ignore state law and federal constitutional standards in the 2020 election.
The AG charges in a Tuesday press release that the four states “exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election.”
He claims that these battle ground states had also flooded their people with unlawful ballot applications and ballots while ignoring statutory requirements as to how they were received, evaluated and counted.
A statement from Paxton reads:
“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. 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,” said Attorney General Paxton. “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.”
As the AG explains in the press release, elections for federal office must comport with federal constitutional standards and each state much abide by the Electors Clause which requires state legislators to set the rules governing the appointment of electors and elections.
What is delegated to the state legislator cannot be carried out by local officials as Paxton charges was the case within the states named in his suit.
“The majority of the rushed decisions, made by local officials, were not approved by the state legislatures, thereby circumventing the Constitution,” the press release concluded.
The suit is specifically asking the Supreme Court to prohibit the counting of the Electoral College votes cast by the four states. And as for the states that have already picked electors, the lawsuit asks the court to direct the state legislatures to appoint new electors in line with the Constitution.
Read the court filings below:
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