SCOTUS Rejects Texas Suit Trying to Nullify Election

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton which sought to nullify the election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, effectively trying to disenfranchise tens of millions of voters and overturn the results of a fair, free election which found no evidence of voter fraud. The rejection effectively puts a rest to the shameless attempt by the Trump wing of the GOP to subvert the election.

In a very brief order, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Texas’ motion to file a case in the court, saying that the state “has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.” This order, combined with the rejection of another lawsuit from the Pennsylvania GOP, signals that a conservative-majority court, even with three Trump-appointed judges, refuses to allow the results of this fair, free election to be overturned.

Though the order was unanimous, Justices Alito and Thomas said that they would allow the state to file the case, but would reject the lawsuit. This was because they believed that the court “do[es] not have the discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction.”

Though the Constitution lays out that disputes between states are to be settled in the Supreme Court, it is clear that the issue at hand is politically motivated and does not at all have a constitutional question at hand (unlike Bush v. Gore back in 2000). Texas had tried to claim that with Trump not being president, the state would be harmed because Kamala Harris would be able to break ties in the Senate, while also claiming that the states being sued would “debase” the votes of citizens in Texas and “other States that remained loyal to the Constitution.” In a brief, the states being sued mentioned that they would be harmed should the results be overturned, and that there is no evidence of Texas being harmed.

President Trump had previously believed that he would win lawsuits in the Supreme Court, especially after he had hurriedly confirmed Justice Barrett onto the court, expecting her to vote in his favor in any election-related disputes. This case makes it clear that the court is nonpartisan, no matter who appointed the justices.

A total of 59 election-related lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign and other Republicans have now been thrown out by the courts. With no more cases pending a decision in the lower courts, it marks the end of Trump’s brazen journey in demanding that the courts overturn the results of this election.

With the Electoral College voting today, it spells the end of the Trump era in America. There are virtually no more pathways the Trump campaign can force the results of this election to be overturned.

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