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AG Ferguson, Washington GOP lawmakers clash over lawsuit seeking to overturn election
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the state’s Congressional Republicans find themselves on opposite sides of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Texas, levying unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a combined 62 electoral votes that went to President-elect Joe Biden.
Republican attorneys general in 17 states filed motions supporting the lawsuit, joined by 106 Congressional Republicans in a Thursday court filing. That includes Washington Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse. Notably absent from Thursday’s filing was Rep. Jaime Herrera Butler, who recently won reelection to Congress, but chose not to join her fellow
Sen. Cruz And Texas Have A History Of Filibusters-Unauthorized Wars, But Can They Overthrow The 2020 Election?
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling
As the nation reels from record COVID-19 deaths, surpassing the frightening peak reached last April, Sen. Ted Cruz and Texas want to filibuster the votes of 82 million Americans who voted for President-Elect Joe Biden. On Monday, Sen. Cruz told Sean Hannity of Fox News that he agreed to present oral arguments before the Supreme Court in a key election-related case - should the high court take the matter up - because the matter “raises very serious issues.” (1) The case brought by Rep. Mike Kelly, (R-Pa.), and Pennsylvania GOP congressional candidate Sean Parnell, alleges that a 2019 state law allowing no-excuse mail-in voting is unconstitutional. (2)