Elections / USA: State Shock: Missouri and 16 other states file brief supporting Texas lawsuit to delay nomination of grand voters. Indeed, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Wednesday led a group of 17 state attorneys general in support of the Texas lawsuit that seeks to block voters in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 ((rezonodwes.com)) – Missouri led a group of 17 states this Wednesday afternoon and filed a brief with the Supreme Court supporting the Texas lawsuit to delay the nomination of presidential voters from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The brief mirrors the Texas lawsuit argument by saying that states acted unconstitutionally when their judiciary or executive changed their election laws. The Texas lawsuit, and the states supporting it, say only state legislatures can make laws about how states appoint their presidential voters.
The brief, which is officially a motion for leave to file a complaint, also warns that changes enacted by state executives and the judiciary have opened up state elections to potential fraud.
“The draft complaint alleges that non-legislative actors in each respondent state have unconstitutionally abolished or diluted statutory guarantees against fraud promulgated by their state legislatures, in violation of the presidential election clause,” the brief said.
He continues: “ All of the unconstitutional changes to electoral procedures identified in the draft complaint have two characteristics in common: (1) They repealed statutory guarantees against fraud that responsible observers have long recommended for postal voting, and (2 ) they did so in a predictable way that gave a partisan advantage to a presidential candidate. ”
The Texas lawsuit is widely regarded as a success. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican, previously called the Texas lawsuit fundamentally “bogus.”
“With all due respect, the Texas attorney general is constitutionally, legally and factually wrong about Georgia,” a spokesperson for Carr told the Dallas Morning News. Carr is the recently appointed president of the Republican Association of Attorneys General.
The states that joined Wednesday’s brief are Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
