5 big problems with Texas's lawsuit to overturn Biden's win

1. Would be unconstitutional to delay the electoral vote in four states. Oh yeah, one wonders how the petitioner didn't think this suit through at least on the merit of it's constitutionality. He should have filed this suit a long time ago. Moreover, many of the issues raised exist in red states, as well, so why aren't those states included in the petition? See? It's obvious that the petitioner is not concerned about issues of 'constitution' and the motivation for the suit is that the petitioners ( Trump, Paxton, et al. ) merely didn't like the way the vote turned out, and seek to overturn it. Simply put, they are attempting to invalidate the core principle of what AMerica is all about, DEMOCRACY-- The right of the people to hold free and fair elections.

2. Texas has no legal right to challenge how another state conducts its elections. We don't have a 'national' election, we have 50 state elections, and how is Texas harmed by an improprieties (real or perceived) by an election, say, in Wisconsin? So, there is a 'standing' issue here.

3. Legal claims have already been already fought over in lower courts. Most, if not all, the issues in the petition have been already fought over, (noting Trump lost on 50+ lawsuits save one, and that one was not about fraud) in lower courts, noting that the justices are certainly aware of this.

4. Seeks to invalidate around 20 million votes. Talk about a hot potato the size of Texas! I mean, I strongly suspect SCOTUS is in no mood to insert itself into election politics particularly where it is being asked to thwart the will of 20,000,000 voters who cast their ballots in good faith.

5. Appears to have been prepared in haste. This would irk any court, a sloppily put together lawsuit with a mish mash of not well thought out issues. Legal scholars on the left and right have basically stated this lawsuit is frivolous.


In my view, the long and short of this suit is that the petitioner, Paxton, since he has been under indictment since 2015 on securities fraud charges relating to activities prior to taking office; he has pleaded not guilty, and that, In October 2020, several high-level assistants in Paxton's office made allegations accusing him of "bribery, abuse of office and other crimes". So, this seems to be a subterfuge to put himself on Trump's pardon radar as he exits the office.