Post by the Scribe on Dec 11, 2020 11:03:53 GMT
Business Insider
Trump's 'Hail Mary' attempt to overturn the election result, via the Supreme Court, is actually full of holes
www.businessinsider.com/texas-election-result-lawsuit-trump-supreme-court-motion-problems-2020-12
Sinéad Baker
Thu, December 10, 2020, 7:16 AM MST
President Donald Trump's latest bid to overturn the 2020 election result is full of holes.
Texas' attorney general, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit to the Supreme Court against four battleground states that Trump lost, saying the votes are "tainted" and seeking to delay the certification of their results.
But that lawsuit — as well as the motion filed by the Trump campaign to argue the president should join the bid — have some issues.
Neither filing offers clear evidence of fraud, even saying at one point that the fraud could have been so successful that evidence could not be found. Their math also doesn't add up, and has a basic factual error.
Legal experts and officials in the states have dismissed the claims, and a Republican senator in Texas said he didn't understand the legal reasoning of the lawsuit.
Trump's 'Hail Mary' attempt to overturn the election result, via the Supreme Court, is actually full of holes
www.businessinsider.com/texas-election-result-lawsuit-trump-supreme-court-motion-problems-2020-12
Sinéad Baker
Thu, December 10, 2020, 7:16 AM MST
President Donald Trump's latest bid to overturn the 2020 election result is full of holes.
Texas' attorney general, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit to the Supreme Court against four battleground states that Trump lost, saying the votes are "tainted" and seeking to delay the certification of their results.
But that lawsuit — as well as the motion filed by the Trump campaign to argue the president should join the bid — have some issues.
Neither filing offers clear evidence of fraud, even saying at one point that the fraud could have been so successful that evidence could not be found. Their math also doesn't add up, and has a basic factual error.
Legal experts and officials in the states have dismissed the claims, and a Republican senator in Texas said he didn't understand the legal reasoning of the lawsuit.