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Legal experts call it a Hail Mary offer, a desperate moon shot in the last hour and one of the dumbest cases they have ever seen.
And yet Donald Trump claims he is “the greatest,” who will give him a second term in the White House.
What am I talking about? Trump’s latest legal effort to roll back the election.
Request permission to intervene as a private citizen in a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas against the states of Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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The president is asking the Supreme Court to block those states from participating in Monday’s all-important Electoral College vote.
And despite the fact that many conservative legal fans say he has no hope of success, Trump and the 17 states he led are moving forward.
The Texas lawsuit alleges that election officials in all four states made protocol changes that were contrary to election laws established by state legislatures, in violation of the Constitution.
Here are some glaring problems people are pointing to:
- He asks the court to delay ballot voting in the four selected states to allow investigations into voting issues to continue. But that would be unconstitutional. Section 4 of Article II says that Congress can choose the day that the voters meet to vote and says that that day “will be the same in all the United States.”
- Texas does not have the legal right to claim that officials elsewhere did not follow the rules established by their own legislatures. A state does not have the legal right to question how another state behaves.
- If one state wants to sue another, it can go to the Supreme Court. But first you need permission and show that there is no other way to solve it.
- The lawsuit asks to invalidate approximately 20 million votes. That is extremely difficult to imagine. And everything feels a little behind the envelope.
- And finally, the suit has a sloppy quality. For example, it says that the four states that Texas wants to sue have a combined total of 72 electoral votes. Close, but without cigar. The total is 62.
This lawsuit may accomplish one thing: get a little attention, but the horse has really run amok.
At best, you could pause the clock, but getting the hands to turn counterclockwise is almost unimaginable at this point.
So far, no court has found a single case of voter fraud.
