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100 House Republicans sign brief backing Texas lawsuit challenging election results
By Juliegrace Brufke and Scott Wong - 12/10/20 04:12 PM EST

More than 100 House Republicans on Thursday signed onto an amicus brief in support of the Texas lawsuit aimed at overturning the election results in four swing states — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — that handed Democrat Joe Biden the White House.

“This brief presents [our] concern as Members of Congress, shared by untold millions of their constituents, that the unconstitutional irregularities involved in the 2020 presidential election cast doubt upon its outcome and the integrity of the American system of elections,” states the brief from GOP lawmakers.

Outgoing Republican Study Committee Chairman Mike Johnson (R-La.) — one of President Trump’s closest allies in the House, having served on his impeachment defense team — helped lead the effort to garner support from his GOP colleagues on the brief.

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), another top Trump ally, was not among the signatories.

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Well, the Supreme Court gave the "defendant states" (PA, GA, MI, WI) until 3.00pm today to respond to the "Texas complaint".

Did any of them do so?

If so, what arguments did they promulgate in their defense...?

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Well, the Supreme Court gave the "defendant states" (PA, GA, MI, WI) until 3.00pm today to respond to the "Texas complaint".

Did any of them do so?

If so, what arguments did they promulgate in their defense...?

States tell justices to deny Texas request to overturn 2020 election

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Four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – urged the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon to reject Texas’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Using strong language rarely seen in Supreme Court filings, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro told the justices that they should “not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.”
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BOISE (AP) — Idaho’s attorney general on Thursday said he’s declining to join a lawsuit filed by Texas to overturn the outcome of he presidential election by invalidating the results in four battleground states Donald Trump lost.

Republican Lawrence Wasden in a sttatement said the decision is necessary to protect Idaho’s sovereignty.


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BOISE (AP) — Idaho’s attorney general on Thursday said he’s declining to join a lawsuit filed by Texas to overturn the outcome of he presidential election by invalidating the results in four battleground states Donald Trump lost.

Republican Lawrence Wasden in a sttatement said the decision is necessary to protect Idaho’s sovereignty.


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AG just got off the horn with Mittens?

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Our governor is weak and Wasden is a pr*ck.
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So how does Texas have standing then?
Voters do not select the President, states do, by nominating electors in proportion to their representation in congress.  The Constitution specifically calls for each state legislature to make the laws which select those electors.

If a majority of those electors choose a person, then that person is the President.

The problem is if a state does not follow the US Constitution and chooses electors not by laws passed by that state legislature.  Note there is nothing in the Constitution which says the voters of the state vote for those electors.  The fact that citizens vote for which electors to nominate is a newer phenomena, as states legislatures used to be the only method used to select electors.

All other states are then placed into a situation that means their own state and its electors are disenfranchised from a Constitutional determination of who is selected as President should the electors of those states who brought electors to vote used extra-Constitutional methods. 

Texas and the 18 other states submitting briefs all have been disenfranchised for who should be selected as President so they most certainly have standing in the only court in the country which can hear its case.

Make an easy example here:  If Georgia's governor decided on his own that he would select all electors to vote in the electoral college, then that would most certainly be evidence of disenfranchisement.
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BOISE (AP) — Idaho’s attorney general on Thursday said he’s declining to join a lawsuit filed by Texas to overturn the outcome of he presidential election by invalidating the results in four battleground states Donald Trump lost.

Republican Lawrence Wasden in a sttatement said the decision is necessary to protect Idaho’s sovereignty.


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Sovereignity?  Does this f'er even know what that word means?  How does particapting in a high court review of electoral corruption threaten that? 
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Well, the Supreme Court gave the "defendant states" (PA, GA, MI, WI) until 3.00pm today to respond to the "Texas complaint".

Did any of them do so?

If so, what arguments did they promulgate in their defense...?

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Sovereignity?  Does this f'er even know what that word means?   

Apparently not.

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Vocal dissension in the ranks-

TX v. PA

PA Speaker of the House, Bryan Cutler was joined by PA House majority leader, Kerry Benninghoff in filing an amici curiae brief AGAINST the State of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas' application for relief.




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Honored to be among the 24 PA Senators that are part of the amicus in support of the Texas case going before the US Supreme Court.

   

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Joe Nierman (Parler: @JoeNierman)
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Vocal dissension in the ranks-

TX v. PA

PA Speaker of the House, Bryan Cutler was joined by PA House majority leader, Kerry Benninghoff in filing an amici curiae brief AGAINST the State of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas' application for relief.




3:24 PM · Dec 10, 2020·Twitter for Android

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Senator Doug Mastriano
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Honored to be among the 24 PA Senators that are part of the amicus in support of the Texas case going before the US Supreme Court.

   

4:49 PM · Dec 10, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/SenMastriano/status/1337152538450255873
With now 19 states contending they have been disenfranchised, and leaders in the House and Senate in one of the states being sued supporting this effort, it will be a tremendous mystery if the Supreme Court does not take up this case.
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NEW: FBI agents delivered at least one federal subpoena to the Texas Attorney General's office Wednesday for information in an ongoing investigation involving AG Ken Paxton, three sources confirm, indicating the seriousness with which they are taking allegations against Paxton.


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It is not clear what records FBI agents sought. Their visit came on a week when Paxton has been in the national spotlight for his lawsuit concerning election results in four battleground states. He also met with President Trump today.


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Former aides accuse Paxton of a number of crimes in his relationship with Austin investor Nate Paul. Paxton has denied any wrongdoing.
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   Good to see Tennessee on board.  They just went through this $hit 74 years ago.



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Pennsylvania House Leaders File Brief to Support Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania House Leaders File Brief to Support Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania
Epoch Times, Dec 10, 2020

Pennsylvania’s House speaker and majority leader on Thursday filed an amici curiae brief with the Supreme Court against the state of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas’s lawsuit against the commonwealth and three other states.

A brief (pdf) filed by Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, both Republicans, requests that the Supreme Court “carefully consider the procedural issues and questions raised by the Plaintiff concerning the administration of the 2020 General Election in Pennsylvania.”

“The unimpeachability of our elections requires clear procedures of administration so that everyone gets a fair shake. Unfortunately, outside actors have so markedly twisted and gerrymandered the Commonwealth’s Election Code to the point that amici find it unrecognizable from the laws that they enacted,” they wrote, adding that the state of Texas “raised important questions about how this procedural malfeasance affected the 2020 General Election.”

Cutler and Benninghoff, in support of Paxton’s lawsuit, further stipulated that “under the pretextual guise of COVID-19, special interests began attempting to use Pennsylvania courts” to carry out “election procedures of their own choosing,” citing mail-in ballot extensions implemented by Kathy Boockvar, the Pennsylvania secretary of state.

Also on Thursday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a brief with the court, arguing that Paxton’s assertions are frivolous and an attempt to “disenfranchise voters” in the commonwealth.

More:  https://www.theepochtimes.com/pennsylvania-house-leaders-file-brief-to-support-texas-in-supreme-court-lawsuit-against-pennsylvania_3613557.html

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https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/07/27/texas-ag-ken-paxton-was-indicted-for-fraud-5-years-ago-will-he-ever-face-a-jury/
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Texas AG Ken Paxton was indicted for fraud 5 years ago. Will he ever face a jury?
The case against Paxton, a Republican, has been delayed multiple times since he was indicted months into his first term. Now, the fraud case against him is back to square one.