If the justices of the Supreme Court have the courage to stick to principle, then one day the words “Texas v. Pennsylvania” will resonate as a battle cry of freedom just as loudly as “Remember the Alamo!”
Late Monday night, Texas filed suit against the states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin for their unconstitutional administration of the 2020 presidential election.
Here, as cited in the 154-page complaint, is the gist of the matter:
As set forth in the accompanying brief and complaint, the 2020 election suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities in the Defendant States:
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Non-legislative actors’ purported amendments to States’ duly enacted election laws, in violation of the Electors Clause’s vesting State legislatures with plenary authority regarding the appointment of presidential electors.
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Intrastate differences in the treatment of voters, with more favorable allotted to voters – whether lawful or unlawful – in areas administered by local government under Democrat control and with populations with higher ratios of Democrat voters than other areas of Defendant States.
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The appearance of voting irregularities in the Defendant States that would be consistent with the unconstitutional relaxation of ballot-integrity protections in those States’ election laws.
All these flaws – even the violations of state election law – violate one or more of the federal requirements for elections (i.e., equal protection, due process, and the Electors Clause) and thus arise under federal law. See Bush v Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 113 (2000) (“significant departure from the legislative scheme for appointing Presidential electors presents a federal constitutional question”) (Rehnquist, C.J., concurring). Plaintiff State respectfully submits that the foregoing types of electoral irregularities exceed the hanging-chad saga of the 2000 election in their degree of departure from both state and federal law. Moreover, these flaws cumulatively preclude knowing who legitimately won the 2020 election and threaten to cloud all future elections.
While other lawsuits have substantive validity, they must wind their way through the lower courts to reach the Supreme Court, and might be stalled till after Inauguration Day, which could result in them being declared moot.
This new lawsuit on the other hand is brought by one state directly against others in a matter that can only be resolved by the Supreme Court.
The question of standing should not come up. Texas is one of the participants in the compact called the Constitution. They should have a right to demand that the rules be followed. Texans have a proud history of defending their rights, including at the Battle of the Alamo. Although the odds were long in that fight, they never flinched or fled, but fought to the last man.
So should it be this year. Don’t give up the fight!
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I love my home state!
We love Texas!! It was a judge from Texas who challenged the constitutionality of the ACA ‘lo those many years ago.’ I knew a logical and cogent lawsuit was possible, and while praying for our country, I prayed for our brilliant constitutionalists. Not the faux ones we have seen strutting about in the last administration who actually skipped those classes at Harvard.
Thank you TEXAS!!!
Joe Morrisco
Bedminster NJ 07921
Dad gum – WAY TO GO TEXAS. TELL THE REST OF THOSE NARDS TO SHAPE UP!!!
“Come and Take It” has taken on a whole new meaning for us conservatives in the Lone Star State. It has come to mean a challenge to anyone who would challenge our Constitutional rights. My street is lined with Trump flags proudly waving in front of homes belonging to gun owners who cherish our rights. I am proud that Senator Ted Cruz represents what the majority of Texans believe and stand for. All these come-laters in this state can leave and go back where they came from. I come from a long, long line of Texas natives, and not much has changed in my ancestors’ belief in Liberty from then until today. We are a basket of deplorable – Bible-toting and gun-shooting has taught us well. We rather like our wide-open spaces, freedom from sunrise to sunset, and the long tradition we have of carrying a gun, often handed down from one generation to the next, and we don’t take too kindly to people telling us to give up any of it. ‘Come and Take It’ is our way of life, not some nice motto. Sen. Cruz was raised with that same attitude. God bless him.
I’m a displaced native Texan (living in Montana) and I agree with everything you say. I am so proud to be a Texan. There is no better state to call home.