President Donald Trumpâs continued false insistence that he is the rightful winner of the 2020 election is culminating six weeks after Election Day with a widespread Republican embrace of an audacious legal effort to invalidate the votes of entire states â an attempt which, if successful, would inflict grievous damage on American democracy itself.
The mere fact that the attorneys general of Texas and 17 other GOP-led states, almost two-thirds of House Republicans, and the president have signed on to such a lawsuit calls into question the Republican Partyâs very commitment to democratic principles, say critics of the effort, filed by the state of Texas to the Supreme Court.