The Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, that would have delayed the electoral votes of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The decision completely closes any chance President Donald Trump had of overturning the election results in court.
This past Wednesday all 50 states certified their election results. With today's dismissal the Supreme Court affirms that the electoral college will vote on Monday. The failed lawsuit was joined by 17 other states, 126 House Republicans, and President Trump himself, despite no evidence of voter or election fraud being accepted by any court in the nation.
Supreme Court Statement
The Supreme Court said that Texas lacks the legal right to litigate over how other states conduct their own elections:
“The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”
No dissents were made public, even from Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett, three Judges appointed by Trump.
Republican Reaction
The Texas State Republicans decried the decision, with Texas GOP chairman Allen West recklessly calling for secession stating, “Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution”. No proof of statistically significant law breaking has been found in any state.
Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says his legal team will continue to fight, with plans to continue filing lawsuits in lower courts in an attempt to subvert the election. In an interview on conservative network Newsmax Giuliani stated, “The case wasn’t rejected on the merits, the case was rejected on standing. So the answer to that is to bring the case now to the district court by the president, by some of the electors, alleging some of the same facts where there would be standing.”
Without any new evidence these lawsuits are just as likely to fail as the other 39 that came before.
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