Texas Attorney General Challenges Four-State Election Results to Supreme Court

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the US Supreme Court to ban states at the center of electoral battles from submitting "illegal and constitutionally questionable votes" to the Electoral College. Experts say there is no evidence of widespread electoral fraud. Writes about it Texas Tribune.

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We are talking about the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - the election results in which handed the White House to President-elect Joe Biden.

In the lawsuit, Paxton claims that changes to the electoral procedures in these states, made during the pandemic era, violate federal law, and asks the US Supreme Court to prohibit these states from voting on the Electoral College.

The last-minute lawsuit, which has already been described as risky by lawyers, is accompanied by dozens of similar attempts by President Donald Trump and his political allies. Most of these lawsuits have already failed.

There is no evidence of widespread electoral fraud in the 2020 election, as has already been claimed by officials in most states and US Attorney General William Barr. Biden won in all four states, where Paxton contested the results.

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In an address to the high court on Tuesday, Dec. 8, Paxton claims four states have violated the law by introducing pandemic-related electoral policy changes, whether "through executive orders or amicable lawsuits, thereby weakening the integrity of the ballots."

Paxton argued that the changes allow voter fraud - a finding that experts and election officials have rejected - and said the court should push back the Dec. 14 deadline by which states must appoint their electors.

“This deadline, however, should not cement a potentially illegal election result,” the prosecutor wrote.

Officials in Georgia, where Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger reaffirmed the state's election results on Monday, December 7, after a recount, were quick to dismiss Paxton's allegations, as did the leaders of the other three states in the lawsuit.

“The allegations in the lawsuit are false and irresponsible,” Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said in a statement. — Texas claims there are 80 fraudulent signatures on absentee ballots in Georgia, but they don't cite a single person to whom this happened. Because it didn’t happen.”

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel dismissed Paxton's suit as "a publicity stunt, not a serious legal request."

“Paxton’s actions are beneath the dignity of the attorney general’s office and the people of the great state of Texas,” she said.

Paxton and Trump are political allies whose interests often align in court, as in Texas' challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Paxton often characterizes their relationship as friendly in his public appearances, telling the story of how the president once called him while Paxton was in the shower.

Paxton, who has been charged with securities fraud since 2015, was facing new felony charges by eight of his senior deputies who said they believed he had broken the law by using the agency to help a political donor. According to the Associated Press, the FBI is investigating Paxton's case based on these allegations. Paxton denies wrongdoing.

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Notably, Paxton himself is listed as the agency's lead prosecutor on the case, a highly unusual role for a state official who rarely plays a hands-on role even in major cases in Texas itself. Paxton's new chief deputy, Brent Webster, signed off on the filing, but notably did not the agency's chief appellate lawyer, Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins, who typically argues state cases before the Supreme Court and has done so as recently as last year. month. None of Hawkins' deputies are listed as involved in the case, nor are any of the agency's hundreds of other lawyers.

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