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Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court"

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On 12/8/2020 1:58 PM, David Hartung wrote:
> On 12/8/20 3:11 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> On 12/8/2020 12:55 PM, David Hartung wrote:
>>> "over 'unlawful election results' in 2020 presidential race"
>>>
>>> [...]
>>> Key Points
>>>
>>> Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in 
>>> the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate presidential election results in 
>>> Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan.
>>>
>>> The lawsuit asserts that "unlawful election results" in those four states, 
>>> which President-elect Joe Biden won, should be declared unconstitutional.
>>>
>>> The filing argues that those states used the coronavirus pandemic as an 
>>> excuse to unlawfully change their election rules.
>>>
>>> Experts in election law were quick to dismiss the likelihood of the nine 
>>> Supreme Court justices taking the case.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Hmm, this could be interesting.
>>
>> No, it's bullshit.
> 
> Not necessarily, but you absolutely are.
> 
>>> I feel it to be improper for one state to sue another for the manner in which 
>>> elections are conducted, but It also seems improper for the Court to refuse 
>>> to hear such a case.
>>
>> It's not. The Supreme Court declines lots of appeals.
> 
> This is not an appeal, in suite between states, the Supreme Court has original 
> jurisdiction. IN other words, in this matter the suppreme Court is the trial court.
> 
>> Texas has no standing.
> 
> How do you fogure?
> 
>> The claims in Texas’ lawsuit “are false and irresponsible,” Georgia’s deputy 
>> secretary of state, Jordan Fuchs, said in a fiery statement shortly after 
>> Paxton announced the legal action.
>>
>> “Texas alleges that there are 80,000 forged signatures on absentee ballots in 
>> Georgia, but they don’t bring forward a single person who this happened to. 
>> That’s because it didn’t happen,” Fuchs’ statement said.
>>
>> Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called the suit a “publicity stunt” and 
>> “beneath the dignity” of Paxton’s office. Josh Kaul, the attorney general of 
>> Wisconsin, said in a statement the case was “genuinely embarrassing.”
>>
>> Experts in election law were also quick to dismiss the likelihood of the nine 
>> Supreme Court justices taking the case. Paul Smith, a professor at Georgetown 
>> University Law Center who has argued voting rights cases at the Supreme Court, 
>> said the case was “wacko.”
>>
>> “There is a whole system in Pennsylvania and the other states for contesting 
>> the election — that’s all been done,” said Smith, who also serves as vice 
>> president of litigation and strategy at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. 
>> “I don’t think the Supreme Court will have interest in this.”
>>
>> The professor added that Texas could run into trouble in proving that it has 
>> grounds to sue, known in legal terms as “standing.”
>>
>> “It’s totally unprecedented, the idea that one state would, at the Supreme 
>> Court, claim that other states’ votes were cast in the wrong way — that’s 
>> never happened,” he said. “What is the injury to the state of Texas because 
>> Pennsylvania’s votes were cast for Mr. Biden instead of Mr. Trump? There is no 
>> connection there.”
> 
> If Biden is elected due to illegally cast votes,

He wasn't.

> 
>> Rick Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, 
>> wrote on his popular legal blog that the suit was “utter garbage” and also 
>> disputed the idea that Texas had standing, noting that “it has no say over how 
>> other states choose electors.”
> 
> Unless I missed something, 

You did, as always.

> Texas is not complaining about how the elections were run,

That's exactly their complaint.

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"Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" David Hartung <d_hartung@hotmail.com> - 2020-12-08 14:55 -0600
  Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Rudy Canoza <js@phendrie.con> - 2020-12-08 13:11 -0800
    Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" BeamMeUpScotty <NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov> - 2020-12-08 16:26 -0500
      Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Bill Flett <notgenx32@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 13:33 -0800
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            Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Ken Paxton <kenpax@gmail.com> - 2020-12-09 17:16 +0000
    Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" David Hartung <d_hartung@hotmail.com> - 2020-12-08 15:58 -0600
      Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" PIBB <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-12-08 21:59 +0000
        Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" BeamMeUpScotty <NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov> - 2020-12-08 17:20 -0500
          Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Bill Flett <notgenx32@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 14:29 -0800
      Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Rudy Canoza <j_carlson@gmx.com> - 2020-12-08 14:21 -0800
        Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" David Hartung <d_hartung@hotmail.com> - 2020-12-08 16:52 -0600
          Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Rudy Canoza <j_carlson@gmx.com> - 2020-12-08 14:53 -0800
          Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" "edell@post.com" <edell@post.com> - 2020-12-08 15:04 -0800
          Trump Wins Again!: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" American Thinker <athinker@gopfags.net> - 2020-12-08 23:28 +0000
      Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Rudy Canoza <js@phendrie.con> - 2020-12-08 15:06 -0800
  Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Rudy Canoza <js@phendrie.con> - 2020-12-08 13:13 -0800
    Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Rudy Canoza <js@phendrie.con> - 2020-12-08 13:18 -0800
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        Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Bill Flett <notgenx32@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 13:34 -0800
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  Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" PIBB <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-12-08 21:58 +0000
    Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" David Hartung <d_hartung@hotmail.com> - 2020-12-08 16:22 -0600
      Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Bill Flett <notgenx32@gmail.com> - 2020-12-08 14:23 -0800
      Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Jonathan <LSA@UMich.edu> - 2020-12-08 18:06 -0500
        Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Rudy Canoza <js@phendrie.con> - 2020-12-08 15:07 -0800
          Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" David Hartung <d_hartung@hotmail.com> - 2020-12-08 17:10 -0600
            Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Rudy Canoza <js@phendrie.con> - 2020-12-08 15:11 -0800
            Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" "edell@post.com" <edell@post.com> - 2020-12-08 15:16 -0800
            Re: "Texas sues four battleground states in Supreme Court" Jonathan <LSA@UMich.edu> - 2020-12-08 18:45 -0500
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