Texas asks SCOTUS to help Trump overturn the election

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Texas has filed lawsuits in the U.S Supreme Court to help Trump overturn the election results in four key election battlegrounds.
• The move was the latest challenge made by Trump and his allies to upend the election outcomes in favor of the president.
• Texas state is also requesting the Supreme Court to defer the scheduled Dec.14 deadline for the casting of Electoral College votes.

To help President Donald Trump overturn the election results, the state of Texas confirmed on Tuesday that it had filed charges against Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia at the U.S. Supreme Court, stating they find the procedural variations they implemented during the pandemic over the casting of ballots violated the law.

The complaint, publicized by Republican Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, was filed straight to the Supreme Court, as it allows specific lawsuits between states. Currently, the Supreme Court comprises a 6-3 traditional majority, including three justices who are Trump appointees.

The litigation is the latest in the series of legal challenges aimed to overturn the president’s defeat against Democratic President-elect Joe Biden.

In its lawsuit, Republican-led Texas claimed the four states’ election officers failed to secure mail-in ballot casting from fraud, thus weakening the elections’ credibility in the said regions.

State election authorities maintained that no proof of irregularities had been found that would suffice to affect the election results. Voting by mail was the most preferred amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and many Americans opted not to visit polling areas to avoid being infected with the virus.

Texas is requesting the Supreme Court stop counting 62 votes from Electoral College ballots in the four states. Biden got a total of 306 electoral votes, more than the required 270, and in contrast, Trump got 232 in all the said state’s Electoral College that concludes the election’s result, while also victorious in the nationwide popular vote, surpassing 7 million.

Texas is also urging the Supreme Court to postpone the deadline set for Electoral College votes to be cast, which was Dec. 4.

Georgetown University law school professor Paul Smith said Texas did not have a lawful basis to bring the charges, adding that the state is in no position to question how the votes were cast and counted on other regions.

The Supreme Court is not obliged to entertain the lawsuit and has explained in earlier decisions that its primary jurisdiction that consents complaint between states to be taken up with the nine justices should be invoked cautiously.

Source: AOL