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17 Republican attorneys from all 50 US states testified in a petition to the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday (local time) to support a Texas lawsuit before the Supreme Court.
With this lawsuit, the attorney general of Texas, Republican Ken Paxton, seeks to invalidate the electoral results in the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Trump challenger Joe Biden won there.
No realistic possibilities
All four states were known as swing states, in which there was no clear majority for either Republican Trump or Democrat Biden. All four states have already certified the results. It’s unclear whether the Supreme Court will even accept Texas’s lawsuit. Trump’s attorneys requested Wednesday that the Supreme Court consider the lawsuit. Experts no longer give Trump a realistic chance to turn the outcome in his favor through lawsuits.
The Supreme Court had only rejected a request for an injunction on Tuesday, with which the Trump side wanted to annul the result of the elections in Pennsylvania. The decision did not include the votes against the nine judges.
On Twitter, Trump thanked attorneys for the states who, along with his colleague from Texas, campaigned “against the greatest electoral fraud in the history of the United States.” Trump has been claiming since the Nov.3 election that the victory was stolen from him by massive Democratic fraud. So far, neither he nor his lawyers have been able to provide convincing evidence. Lawsuits have been dismissed in various states in a dozen cases. Attorney General William Barr also said last week that he had no evidence of fraud to the extent that it would alter the outcome.
Texan Paxton cites in his complaint that the constitution was violated in all four states, among other things because voters were not treated equally and there were irregularities. The American president is not chosen directly by the people, but by 538 voters who usually vote according to the result in their respective states. 270 votes are required for victory. According to preliminary results, Biden had 306 voters behind him in the election, Trump 232.
In Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin together there are 62 voters and ultimately the lawsuit is about getting Biden. Paxton wants the electorates in these states to be commissioned by local parliaments or not appointed in the first place. The Texan also filed an injunction request with the Supreme Court to immediately halt all activity involving the electorate in all four states.
Oath on January 20
Voting by the electorate in the respective states is scheduled for December 14. On January 6, the House of Representatives and the Senate will meet in Washington to count the votes of the states and announce the result. Biden will be sworn in as the new president on January 20.
Even before the election, Trump had set out to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat with conservative attorney Amy Coney Barrett as quickly as possible, and touched on a possible dispute over the election outcome. Conservatives now dominate the court with a majority of six to three votes. However, the Trump camp’s previous lawsuits were equally dismissed by justices, regardless of whether they were nominated by Democratic or Republican presidents.
