SCOTUSblog by Amy Howe 12/10/2020
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.â€
The filings came in the lawsuit that Texas is seeking to file directly in the Supreme Court, a process known as original jurisdiction, attempting to delay the Electoral College vote and prevent the four states from casting their Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden. The briefs filed on Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton contend that the 2020 election “suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities in those four states,†making it impossible to know who “legitimately won the 2020 election.â€
Numerous lower courts and election authorities in the states at issue have found no evidence of fraud, illegality or any other election problems that would cast doubt on the results.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the justices for permission to join the Texas lawsuit, arguing that “nearly half of the country believes the election was stolen.†And on Thursday morning, six more states – Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina and Utah – requested approval to join, telling the court that they “share†the concerns voiced by Trump and Texas “about the unconstitutional administration of the Presidential election in the Defendant States, and its impact on voters in†their own states.
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