Trump Is Seeking To Influence The Texas Case To Reverse Election Results
President Donald Trump is trying to jump into a Supreme Court case, which the Texas attorney general brought out in a bid to toss out the results in some of the battleground states where Democrat Joe Biden won. This marks the president's latest, and most likely the last long-shot legal route to reverse the recently concluded presidential election results.
After several attempts to sow misinformation regarding the election results, Trump filed in a 39-page filing. In his filing, the president compared the division among Americans to the climate in the country on the eve of the Civil War. The case, which was originally brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, attempts to stop Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania from having their electors vote in the Electoral College.
The lawsuit's ultimate goal is to pass the decision to each state's legislature, which is controlled by Republicans. Before jumping in it, Trump tweeted about the Texas case is a big one. noting that America needs a victory.
The Texas case suggests that the states adopted non-legislative actions in a bid to alter the election rules and ought to have their results invalidated. In his original filing, Paxton offered dubious claims of fraud, citing an expert witness who claimed that the president-elect had a slim chance of winning each of the four states considering an early lead he built up, paying no heed to the ballot-counting process and making flawed comparisons with the 2016 vote totals.
Trump's filing points out that the media has repeatedly claimed that no widespread voter fraud took place, noting that the issue is not whether or not voters committed fraud by whether state officials ignored the law by violating the measures for ballot integrity. The filing suggests that state officials ensured that the fraud becomes undetectable.
A considerable number of credible American authorities have rejected claims of electoral fraud in the country. These claims have met similar reactions in different states, county, and federal courts, with election security officials in Washington, election administrators in both parties who were assigned the task to oversee the election process have denied the possibility of voter fraud. On top of that, even the Department of Justice said it did not find any evidence of fraudulence, according to the Associated Press.
Aside from that, Trump's filing also accuses the states of modifying their election policies for the partisan advantage. It says they omitted the fact that in one of the challenged states, the election process was monitored by Republicans, who have recently certified the results. There is no evidence of fraud, even in states that were overseen by Democrats.