Election Litigation Status

[Moksha]

It All Happened in the Garden

Trump's soliloquy in the Rose Garden, "Oh my Putin, my Putin. Why hast thou abandoned me?"

[subgenius]

current count:
21 States Now Support Texas Supreme Court Lawsuit
42% of America to Sue 8% of America

[Moksha]

current count:
21 States Now Support Texas Supreme Court Lawsuit
42% of America to Sue 8% of America

No doubt about it, Republican AGs would like to rend America asunder. The Texas AG started it hoping to get a pardon for his criminal activities from Trump. The others jumped on because Republicans are through with America and wish to try out a dictatorial Trump regime.

[Res Ipsa]

Another one bites the dust: the lawsuit filed in PA by the ironically named "Armistad Project" gave up and voluntarily dismissed their case.

[Gunnar]

Why this Texas 'election fraud' lawsuit is a total and complete joke

"I read just the summary of it, and I frankly struggle to understand the legal theory of it," Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn told CNN's Manu Raju Wednesday night about the Paxton suit. "Number one, why would a state, even such a great state as Texas, have a say so on how other states administer their elections? We have a diffused and dispersed system and even though we might not like it, they may think it's unfair ... those are decided at the state and local level and not at the national level. So it's an interesting theory, but I'm not convinced."

Uh, yeah.
Put plainly: There is NO way the Supreme Court is going to get involved in this sort of lawsuit. As Andrew C. McCarthy, writing in the conservative National Review, put it:

"The justices are not going to have the slightest interest in entertaining a sprawling lawsuit brought by an unaffected third-party state — one that, if Texas got its way, would forevermore thrust the Supreme Court into the thick of electoral politics."

No, they are not. After all, the court dismissed -- in a single sentence! -- an attempt earlier this week by Pennsylvania Republicans to block the certification of the 2020 results in the Keystone State (where President-elect Joe Biden won by more than 81,000 votes).
The Supreme Court -- led by Chief Justice John Roberts -- has zero interest in dabbling in electoral politics. And this suit, brought by Paxton, would force the court to do a lot more than dabble. If Paxton and Trump get what they want, it would effectively overturn the vote in four swing states -- swinging not just those states but the presidency from Biden to Trump.

In short: This is not a serious legal case or argument being put forward by Paxton and Trump. It is a political document aimed at shoring up the Trump base through distraction and misinformation. And it is being offered and supported not by people who think it has genuine legal merit, but rather who want Trump to know just how much they support him -- for their own selfish reasons.

Take Paxton. In October, seven top aides accused him of bribery and abuse of his office. Paxton needs the support of Trump now more than ever -- and what better way to curry that favor than to play to the President's belief that he actually somehow won the election? And right on cue, Trump has responded -- not only signing on to Paxton's lawsuit on Wednesday but inviting him to the White House on Thursday. That's mission accomplished for Paxton! And so quickly, too!

For Trump, the goal -- as ever -- is to retain the image of himself as the consummate winner, and, in so doing, to keep the loyalty of the Republican Party base. As the Bulwark's Jonathan V. Last wrote so tellingly of Trump on Wednesday:

"So for Trump, the lawsuits, the posturing, the couping — yes, it would be nice if he wound up as president on January 21. But that's the secondary objective. The primary objective was to stop the Republican Party from leaving him and, if possible, tighten his grasp on it. And while everyone laughs at how incompetent Trump's Elite Strike Force has been as a matter of law, they miss how effective it's been as a matter of politics."

This Texas suit -- and the Pennsylvania one and the dozens of other frivolous suits Trump and his legal team have brought over the five weeks since the election ended -- isn't about winning a legal fight. It's about preserving political strength. That's all it's ever been about, and all it will ever be about.

The fact that 21 states have signed on to this ridiculous, desperate, hail Mary attempt to somehow invalidate the election of Biden doesn't even begin to diminish the reality that this is a frivolous, unpatriotic, anti-American, anti-democracy and pathologically dishonest action. I have little doubt that the Supreme Court, even its Trump Appointed members, will unanimously reject it with extreme prejudice!

See also: Attorneys general from both parties reject baseless allegations in case filed with US supreme court.

“What Texas is doing in this proceeding is to ask this court to reconsider a mass of baseless claims about problems with the election that have already been considered, and rejected, by this court and other courts,” Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic attorney general, wrote in a filing to the nine justices.

Why should Ken Paxton and his collaborators not be sanctioned, or even disbarred for filing this exceedingly frivolous and nonsensical lawsuit?

[canpakes]

current count:
21 States Now Support Texas Supreme Court Lawsuit
42% of America to Sue 8% of America

42% of America doing their best to disenfranchise 58% of America, because Trump is a snowflake who cannot deal with losing.

[Gunnar]

42% of America doing their best to disenfranchise 58% of America, because Trump is a snowflake who cannot deal with losing.

Excellent point!

[subgenius]

current count:
21 States Now Support Texas Supreme Court Lawsuit
42% of America to Sue 8% of America

No doubt about it, Republican AGs would like to rend America asunder. The Texas AG started it hoping to get a pardon for his criminal activities from Trump. The others jumped on because Republicans are through with America and wish to try out a dictatorial Trump regime.

or they all mistakenly read the US Constitution instead of attending the Biden school of fealty at the Xinjiang campus.

[subgenius]

current count:
21 States Now Support Texas Supreme Court Lawsuit
42% of America to Sue 8% of America

42% of America doing their best to disenfranchise 58% of America, because Trump is a snowflake who cannot deal with losing.

sez the poster who cried for 48 months when Hillary Clinton lost...aight.

[Moksha]

42% of America doing their best to disenfranchise 58% of America, because Trump is a snowflake who cannot deal with losing.

The former Republican Party wants to steal the stadium's ball and slink off to some web-infested corner while it foments a revolution.

Grow up and return to your Lincoln roots. The Confederacy cannot be resurrected.