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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, appealed yesterday to the Supreme Court of the United States to include him as an interested party in a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas to invalidate the results of the presidential elections in four states, where he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, Reuters and TASS reported.
On December 8, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he had filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, arguing that the changes they made to election procedures amid the coronavirus pandemics were illegal. In this sense, the election results in these states must be declared invalid, the lawsuit says.
Yesterday, representatives from 17 states filed a petition with the Supreme Court in support of the lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General. The lawsuit also alleges that officials in the four states failed to protect vote-by-mail from fraud.
President Trump has promised to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas, Reuters reported.
“We will intervene in the case of Texas (and many other states). This is the most important thing. Our country needs a victory!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Trump did not elaborate on how he would intervene in the case, nor did he say if it would be through his campaign team or the Justice Department.
The stakes are high and there is a possibility that the case
In some disputes between states, your attorneys general have the right to file a lawsuit directly with the Supreme Court (as is the case), where now Conservatives have a majority of 6 to 3 votes and in which three judges were appointed by President Trump.
However, legal experts believe that this case has very little chance of success. But
What the state of Texas wants: The Supreme Court wants to block the vote counting of the four states in the Electoral College. The total number of these votes is 62. According to the results of the November 3 election, Biden has the support of 306 voters in the university, which is more than the 270 votes he needs to vote. Trump has 232 voters.
