Mod: No Time Magazine for Donald. Again. The Sore Loser Right is taking the crybaby thing to crazy new heights. Pennsylvania AG blasts Texas election suit as 'seditious abuse' of judicial process (The Hilllink): Pennsylvania's attorney general on Thursday called Texas's bid to invalidate the election results of Pennsylvania and three other battleground states a "seditious abuse of the judicial process."
The fiery
Supreme Court brief from state
Attorney General Josh Shapiro, which urged the justices to "send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated," came as battle lines hardened in the unprecedented and long-shot legal dispute
Texas on Monday filed a petition to the Supreme Court seeking to stop presidential electors in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin from finalizing President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
The three other states named as defendants in the suit — Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia— submitted their responses shortly after Pennsylvania, with 22 states and Washington, D.C., backing their effort.
Texas has the support of President Trump, who has asked the justices for permission to join the suit as a party, as well as amicus filings from 18 Republican state attorneys general. Election law experts say the far-fetched lawsuit is unserious and has little chance of success.
“This is a press release masquerading as a lawsuit,” said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California Irvine. According to Hasen, the litigation suffers from a number of major defects, any of which could be fatal to Texas’s case.
He said
Texas lacks the legal right to sue over how other states conduct their elections, that the suit is likely better suited to a different forum than the
Supreme Court and that the
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) likely waited too long to bring the challenge.
“The remedy Texas suggests of disenfranchising tens of millions of voters after the fact is unconstitutional,” he added, in a post that appeared on the Election Law Blog.
Additionally, legal experts said that even if the
Supreme Court agreed to take up the case, the justices almost certainly will not intervene before the electors vote to finalize
Biden’s victory on Monday.
Pennsylvania AG calls Ted Cruz a 'sad sack' after Trump asks for his help in Texas lawsuit (
The Hilllink):
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) called
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a “sad sack” after
Trump asked him to argue
Texas’s election lawsuit to the
Supreme Court.
During an interview on
CNN,
Chris Cuomo asked
Shapiro what he thought of
Cruz reportedly agreeing to argue the case to the
Supreme Court, should the court decide to hear it. "He has proven himself to be neither a genius in the law or a genius, frankly, in terms of an
IQ,”
Shapiro said of
Cruz. “He is a sad sack.”
The suit from
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) argues that electors from
Michigan,
Wisconsin,
Georgia and
Pennsylvania should not be allowed to cast their votes on Monday because the election processes in those states were compromised.
The president filed a motion to intervene in the case on Wednesday, and 18 states have filed briefs backing the suit.
“I don't know if I need to send you a surgeon to examine your spine or a psychiatrist to examine your head,” Shapiro said of Cruz and the attorneys general backing the suit. “But something is wrong with you if you continue to follow this president, if you continue to behave in these bizarro ways.”
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