Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 11, 2020 |
The Attorneys General of 18 states and 106 Republican House members seek to overturn November’s Presidential election, in filings for the US Supreme Court.
The lawsuit was launched by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday, as the Supreme Court was issuing a brusque, one-sentence rejection of a Trump camp appeal to toss out mail-in ballots from Pennsylvania and as all 50 states and the District of Columbia completed the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Paxton’s motion has nothing to do with Texas, which voted for Trump. Instead, it tries to nullify Biden’s wins in the key states of Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Mass joins 22 other states, territories in court filing against Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn election
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With time running out, Trump and GOP allies turn up pressure on Supreme Court in election assault
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US President Donald Trump and Republican allies are turning up the pressure on the Supreme Court in an election assault.
With his legal options dwindling and time running out before a key electoral college deadline, US President Donald Trump ramped up pressure on the Supreme Court to help overturn Joe Biden s victory, gaining the support of more than 100 congressional Republicans in the unprecedented assault on the US election system. In a morning tweet, Trump called on the court to save our Country from the greatest Election abuse in the history of the United States, repeating his baseless claims of widespread fraud. He had a private lunch at the White House with some of the attorneys general from 18 Republican-led states asking the court to dismiss the results in four swing states that Biden won, an effort supported by the Trump administration.