AUSTIN (Talk1370.com) -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Tuesday against four battleground states in the United States Supreme Court, alleging unlawful and unconstitutional "last-minute changes" to election laws that resulted in a skewing of the results of the 2020 election.
The suit names the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin as defendants.
"Trust in the integrity of our election processes is sacrosanct and binds our citizenry and the States in this Union together," Paxton said in a statement. "Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin destroyed that trust and compromised the security and integrity of the 2020 election. The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution. By ignoring both state and federal law, these states have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but of Texas and every other state that held lawful elections. Their failure to abide by the rule of law casts a dark shadow of doubt over the outcome of the entire election. We now ask that the Supreme Court step in to correct this egregious error."
The lawsuit alleges that the states flooded residents with unlawful ballot applications and ballots, while ignoring statutory requirements as to how they were received, evaluated and counted. The suit also cites the Electors Clause, which includes a requirement that only state legislatures may set the rules governing the appointment of electors and elections and cannot be delegated to local officials. According to the lawsuit, a majority of the rushed decisions in the affected states were made by local officials and were not approved by the state legislatures, thereby circumventing the Constitution.
