Texas sues Wisconsin, other battleground states in U.S. Supreme Court over election results

Texas sues Wisconsin, other battleground states in U.S. Supreme Court over election results


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Riley Vetterkind | Wisconsin State Journal 11 hrs ago


In another last-ditch bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, Texas is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse election results in Wisconsin and three other battleground states, but the effort may prove futile after the high court on Tuesday rejected a Republican attempt to reverse results in Pennsylvania.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton directly petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday to block the presidential electors in those states from voting for Biden when the Electoral College meets Monday, and to override the will of the states’ voters by forcing their Legislatures to appoint presidential electors instead.

Paxton is challenging the election results in Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania — all states Biden won — based on differences in election administration the case contends are favorable to Democrats, COVID-19-related changes to elections rules by non-legislative actors, and “the appearance of voting irregularities.”

It’s not yet clear whether the court will take the case.

In the rejected Pennsylvania case, the court without comment refused to call into question the certification process in Pennsylvania. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf already has certified Biden’s victory and the state’s 20 electors are to meet on Monday to cast their votes for Biden.

Biden won 306 electoral votes, so even if Pennsylvania’s results had been in doubt, he still would have more than the 270 electoral votes needed to become president............................................