A week ago, on December 11, 2020, in a 7:2 decision, the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenging the election results in the four battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Trump had won those states in 2016 and was winning on election night 2020 until the counting of votes was abruptly halted. When the counting resumed the next morning, lo and behold, Biden surged ahead.
Texas’ lawsuit was joined by 106 GOP members of Congress and supported by 17 GOP-controlled states Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
MAGA outraged after GOP official serves up easily debunked lie about Texas voter âfraudâ lawsuit
Matt Patrick
A video that shows a Texas Republican elector and State Republican Executive Committee official spinning a blatantly false tale is going viral on social media, with outraged conservatives insisting it is proof the U.S. Supreme Court, and especially Chief Justice John Roberts, are compromised. Some are even calling for the Chief Justice to be arrested.
GOP presidential elector Matt Patrick of Dallas, who cast his vote for President Donald Trump on Monday at the Texas State House, also took to the floor and delivered an easily-debunked fake news story about why, he says, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton s frivolous lawsuit â joined by 17 other state attorneys general and 126 Republican members of Congress.
l let something get past me the other day. It happens. But it didn’t get past others, and I think it’s important enough to bring to your attention.
How important? Pretty important, pretty troubling and pretty ugly (if indeed a thing simultaneously can be pretty and ugly).
It happened last Monday in the Texas House chamber during what’s usually a perfunctory proceeding, albeit one I always love to attend. This was the meeting of the 38 Texans selected by their political party to serve as our state’s members of the Electoral College.
An honor indeed. And a task to be carried out honorably. It was our fellow Texans’ duty to place their ballots for president and vice president (two separate votes) into the box that was carried around the chamber, which was festively festooned with an oversized Christmas tree.
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On Monday, as the members of the Electoral College were convening at statehouses around the nation to cast their vote for the next president of the United States, an interesting side drama was taking place in Austin, Texas, as the Texas electors convened to vote for the man who should be president.
After the votes were cast, Mark Ramsey, who is the elector from Texas’s 10th Congressional District, introduced a resolution:
Whereas, the members of the presidential electoral college from Texas condemn the moral cowardice of the United States Supreme Court, in failing to accept the original jurisdiction of a suit by one state against another, be it resolved that the members of the presidential electoral college from Texas call on the state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Michigan, to convene and appoint their electors in accordance with the true constitutional vote of the people, or if undeterminable, by appointing their electors di
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