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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 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.
