The Supreme Court lawsuit by Texas (Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al.) is proceeding and now 21 states have joined the Lone Star State against four swing states.
The Dallas Morning News reported:
WASHINGTON — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory sparked a legal war between the states on Thursday.
Six fellow Republican attorneys general asked the Supreme Court to let them join Texas’ bid to nullify 10.4 million votes in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. As filings poured into the high court, they and others joined President Donald Trump at a private lunch in the Cabinet Room.
Trump has also asked the court to let him sign on to the Texas lawsuit as a plaintiff.
By the close of business Thursday, 21 states — including four led by Republican governors — had filed objections, calling Texas’ request unconstitutional, unfair and outrageous. That’s in addition to GOP-led Georgia, which is fighting the Texas suit.
Texas’ allegation is that governors or courts in the four states it is trying to sue had unlawfully expanded mail-in voting, usurping a power reserved solely for legislatures. Paxton, who co-chaired Lawyers for Trump for the president’s reelection campaign, asked the Supreme Court to let the legislatures in those states, which are all controlled by Republicans, substitute their choice of electors for the 62 collected by Biden because he won more votes.
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