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Paxton and Trump in June 2020
© APA (AFP)
In the United States, Donald Trump’s camp is now going to the Supreme Court after dozens of dismissed lawsuits to annul the result of the lost presidential election. Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing four other states. In the lawsuit published Tuesday, he called for the election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin to be invalidated.
There, Democratic challenger Joe Biden had secured victory against Trump. It is unclear whether the Washington Supreme Court will accept the lawsuit. The reason given by Paxton was that the constitution had been violated in all four states, among other things because voters were not treated equally and there were irregularities.
The president of the United States is not chosen directly by the people, but by 538 voters who usually vote according to the result in their states. 270 votes are required for victory. Biden had 305 voters behind him in the November 3 election. The electoral vote is scheduled for December 14.
Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin combined have about 62 votes, and the lawsuit is ultimately about taking Biden. Paxton wants the electorates in these states to be commissioned by local parliaments or not appointed in the first place. Trump has been claiming since the election that massive fraud stole his victory. Neither he nor his lawyers could provide evidence. Since then, lawsuits have been dismissed in various states in more than three dozen cases.
Paxton follows the sometimes bizarre arguments of the previous lawsuits: The probability of Biden’s election victory in all four states is said to be 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000. Trump had already placed a high value on a vacant seat before. of the elections. swiftly occupy the Supreme Court with conservative attorney Amy Coney Barrett – and touched on a possible dispute over the election outcome. Conservatives now dominate the court with a majority of six to three votes.
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