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Saturday 12 December 2020
Slap in the high court
Texas Lawsuit Against US Election Results Dismissed
After dozens of bankruptcies in the Trump camp, the state of Texas wanted to help US President-elect Trump re-enter the White House by filing a lawsuit with the Supreme Court. But the judges rejected the request: Texas could not provide any legal justification.
The Supreme Court of the United States dismissed the lawsuit of the state of Texas against the result of the presidential elections. Texas had no legal justification to intervene in another state’s elections, the court said. Texas had demanded election results in four other states and wanted to overturn Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.
After dozens of lawsuits dismissed, Donald Trump’s side was brought to the Supreme Court. Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton was suing four other states. He called for the results of the elections in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin to be invalidated. There, Democratic challenger Joe Biden had secured victory against Trump. As one reason, Paxton cited that the constitution had been violated in all four states, not least because voters were not treated equally and there were irregularities.
Trump had high hopes for the complaint, saying it was “very strong.” He asked the Supreme Court to be allowed to comment on the proceedings initiated in Texas. The complaint was supported by 17 states, 106 Republican deputies and 18 attorneys general. Another 22 US states and territories objected. The defendant states dismissed the initiative as an abuse of the legal system.
Paxton wanted to make sure that the electorate in these states is either commissioned by local parliaments or not appointed at all. In addition to the lawsuit, the Texan petitioned the Supreme Court for a court order to immediately stop all activities involving the electorate in the four states.
Texas: one chance in a billion
Trump has been claiming since the election that massive fraud stole his victory. Neither he nor his lawyers were able to provide evidence. Since then, lawsuits have been dismissed in various states in more than three dozen cases. Paxton had followed the sometimes bizarre arguments of the earlier lawsuits: The probability of Biden’s electoral victory in all four states is said to be one in a trillion.
Even before the election, Trump had set out to quickly fill a vacant Supreme Court seat 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. So far it has been of no use to him.
The results of each state are the key to winning the presidential election. 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 of your votes are required for victory. Based on the results of the November 3 election, Biden got 306 voters to back him. Voting by voters is scheduled for Monday.
