Texas Files Lawsuit Against Swing States Over Presidential Election
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Texas is suing Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin before the Supreme Court of the United States of America. The lawsuit is asking the Supreme Court to nullify the electoral college votes from all four swing states, arguing that those states did not follow either their state laws or the legal voting process listed under the constitution.
Ignoring both state and federal election laws hurt the integrity of the election according to Texas AG Paxton. Paxton argues that the processes under which voting took place in these states was not approved through legislature prior to its inaction and that many of the ballots cast in these states were fraudulent, thus they should not count. Paxton also is arguing that this affected voters not only within those states, but voters nationwide as this was a national election.
According to AG Paxton, these four swing states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic, and carried out voting through a process that flew in the face of the law, leaving the country and its integrity damaged.
After filing the lawsuit, Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia have all said they will support Texas in the lawsuit.
If this case is won before the supreme court, legislators would decide the results from their states, and the result could leave Trump with 294 electoral college votes effectively ensuring his second term. The lawsuit came about after President Trump’s legal team has lost their own legal suits in three out of the four states, and continues the legal battle in Pennsylvania.
Ryan Weathers is a student at Texas Tech University and an active member of Raiders Defending Life, a pro-life student group on the Texas Tech University Campus in Lubbock, Texas.
