The Texas GOP suggested secession from the United States this morning after, on Friday, the Supreme Court rejected a seditious, undemocratic lawsuit by Texas, supported by 106 House Republicans, asking to overthrow the election results from four states Trump lost in November — GA, MI, PA, and WI. The suit was filed by TX AG Ken Paxton, who has been indicted on felony securities fraud charges and is currently under FBI investigation for political power abuse. This lawsuit was dismissed for lacking any standing in reality. Desperate claims that the election was “rigged” with voter fraud were even debunked by Trump’s attorney general, William P. Barr. Many, including GOP Senator Ben Sasse, believe this undemocratic, frivolous lawsuit was nothing more than Paxton seeking a Trump pardon.
The Texas lawsuit challenged the election in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan asking the Supreme Court the block the states from casting their electoral votes for president-elect Biden. It sought to shift the selection of electors to states’ legislatures thereby throwing out millions of votes.
The court dismissed the lawsuit with an order saying Texas lacked standing and “has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.” The majority ruled that Texas could not file the election suit, stating, “The state of Texas’ motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing,”
In a last blow, after election-lawsuit 51 court losses, the Supreme Court composed of a third of Trump appointees completely rebuked Trump’s desperate, groundless attempt to steal the election. The court would not engage in an effort to tell other states how to conduct their elections. This failed stunt attempted to invoke the Supreme Court’s “original jurisdiction,” to act as a trial court for interstate disputes normally used for boundary disputes.
Trump remarked on his last defeat tweeting, “The Supreme Court really let us down.No Wisdom, No Courage!”
Among the dozen briefs and motions the Supreme Court received, was an amicus brief from 106 Republican House members (“The Kraken Caucus”) in support of Texas’ bid to overturn Joe Biden’s win in the Supreme Court and disenfranchise millions of Americans based on conspiracy theories. Even 17 Republican state attorney generals expressed support to overturn Biden’s win.
It stated, “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.”
In an even more ridiculous move, this morning in a statement, the Texas GOP called for secession from the United States in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that dismissed their conspiracy theories. “Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution,” Allen West said.
The danger isn’t the frivolous lawsuit that was unanimously predicted to be dismissed, but the undemocratic values that call for the overturning of an election and disenfranchisement of millions of voters. Conspiracy theories that have 17 states and 106 representatives denying U.S. presidential election outcomes are threatening democracy. The Texas lawsuit filers and supporters have engaged in an effort to commit sedition, subvert American democracy, and disenfranchise millions of American voters all over voter fraud conspiracy theories even debunked by Trump’s own attorney general, William Barr. Barr said that the Justice Department had uncovered no voting fraud “on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”
As a Pennsylvania brief said, this Texas lawsuit is nothing more than a “seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.” Sen. Ben Sasse believes that “from the brief, it looks like a fella begging for a pardon filed a PR stunt rather than a lawsuit.”
Trump lost the popular vote twice, lost all election recounts, lost all 51 court challenges, and yesterday, he lost at the Supreme Court. Monday he will lose the Electoral College. Yet Texas is calling for secession and 17 states are calling for an overturning of President-elect Joe Biden’s win while disenfranchising millions of Americans based on conspiracy theories. Our democracy is under attack from deeply unhinged people.
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