Washington Washington – President Trump’s Republican congressional ally named four of his allies, G.O.P. The legislators were asked to support Texas seeking to delay the certification of presidential-elected ballots in four war-torn states in support of the Sh-Sh lawsuits fought by Texas. President-elect Joe Biden.
Mike Johnson, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, leaked an email he received via CBS News on Wednesday, alleging that the G.O.P. Members were asked Wednesday to join a friend-court-brief filed in support of the leadership effort. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Johnson was Mr. Trump’s voice defender during the impeachment proceedings.
“The simple purpose of our summary is to reassure the court (and our voters back home) of our serious concerns with the integrity of our electoral system.” “We are not seeking to independently adjudicate on specific allegations of fraud in our brief (this is not our position as Amasi). We will only state our belief that the wide scope of the various allegations and malpractices of the subjects is carefully appropriated, timely review by the Supreme Court.”
A total of 105 House Republicans joined the Texas Taco case briefly on Thursday, with governors, state courts and election officials arguing that changing the election rules has usurped the constitutional power of state legislators.
“For the most part, the 2020 election has been flooded with an unprecedented number of serious allegations of fraud and irregularities,” the Republican said.
Johnson said Mr. Trump called him Wednesday morning to briefly file “to express his appreciation for our efforts.”
“He said he would anxiously await the final list for review,” the Republic of Louisiana said of the president.
Johnson said in a statement that most of his fellow House Republicans and their constituents “have serious concerns about the integrity of our electoral system.”
He said, “Our brief objective is to express this concern and our sincere belief that the importance of this issue is fully and carefully considered by the court.”
A House Republican, Chip Roy, a member of Congress from Texas, publicly condemned the attempt and said he would not participate, calling the case a “dangerous violation of federalism” and urging federal courts to ask police to process other states’ voting processes. “
“I cannot support efforts that will almost certainly fail on the basis of settlement and are inconsistent with my belief in protecting Texas sovereignty from the interference of other states,” Roy said. Tweets series. “Our remedy, from this day forward, as the people – by our states – is to refuse to allow usurpation of our power, to rule ourselves in all matters.”
Texas Attorney General Paxon filed his lawsuit in the Supreme Court on Monday, alleging that officials in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan made illegal changes to their voting laws, which led to election irregularities and the avoidance of election results.
They are asking the Supreme Court to delay the Dec. 14 Electoral College College Lodge vote and stop four states from voting in the Electoral College Ledge for Mr. Biden. The president-elects garnered popular votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan, and formally forged Mr. Biden’s victory over Mr. Trump, all certifying their election results.
In response to the Supreme Court’s lawsuit, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro called Texas’s efforts to legally uncertain the election results “legally uncertain” and a “forerunner of the principles of constitutional democracy.”
“This court has no basis in law or fact in Texas’ efforts to elect the next president,” he wrote. “The court should not comply with this treasonous abuse of judicial process, and should send a clear and uncontrollable signal that such abuse should never be copied.”
Shapiro told the court that Texas was waiting to request a restraining order to invalidate Pennsylvania’s election results “because all other political and litigation proceedings of the applicant’s choice presidential candidate have failed.”
“The Trump campaign began with a series of lawsuits without quality. When it failed, it turned to state legislators to overturn clear election results. After that failure, Texas now turns to this court to annul more than 10% of election results. Country,” He continued. “Texas literally wants to eliminate the voters of the United States.”
Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan also submitted their respective responses to the lawsuit and asked the Supreme Court to reject Texas’ requests.
Georgia officials wrote in their filing that the novel and distant claims that Texas insists, and that it seeks a lucrative solution, are possible without legal principles and management. “This court has never allowed one state to choose the legislative power of another state, and there are no limited or managed principles to deal with this type.”
In support of Texas, a group of 17 state attorney generals backed their friend-court-court soon Texas, while the president filed a motion in the Supreme Court seeking to join the case. Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Utah – six other states – pleaded guilty Thursday to Texas in the case, while Ohio told the Supreme Court it did not support Paxton’s proposed relief.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, Republican and Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers told the court that ordering state legislators to appoint their own voters would violate the Constitution.
“Federal courts, like state courts, lack the power to change the legislatively-elected system for the election of the president. And so federal courts, like state courts, do not have the power to order legislators to appoint voters regardless of pre-determined results. , ”They argued. “What’s more, the relief that Texas seeks will undermine the very foundations of our federal system: the idea that states have sovereignty, are free to govern themselves.”
Paxton’s lawsuit was criticized by election officials in four states for his reckless attempts at tax evasion and in the name of waste. It has some G.O.P. It has also met with skepticism from legislators, including states that support Texas’ attempt to block the Electoral Rule College’s vote certificate.
Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn told reporters Wednesday that the lawsuit was “unprecedented” and that he doubted his state’s attorney general’s attempt would succeed.
He said, “States administer their own electoral laws and voting and you can make constitutional claims in the state. But I have never seen anything like this.” “So I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do.”
Utah GOP Senator Mitt Romney called the effort “simple madness.”
“The idea of increasing people’s vote with partisan legislators is completely out of our national character that it is just insane,” he told reporters. “Of course the president has the right to challenge the results in court, to give an account. But this attempt to spoil the people’s vote is dangerous and destructive for the sake of democracy.”
Rebecca Kapla contributed to this report.
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