AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF) – The State of Texas is suing battleground states for what state Attorney General Ken Paxton calls “unconstitutional changes” to 2020 election laws.
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit this week against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the United States Supreme Court.
According to Paxton, the four states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election. Paxton said Tuesday that the battleground states flooded their people with unlawful ballot applications and ballots while ignoring statutory requirements as to how they were received, evaluated and counted. Election officials in those states have not proven claims of widespread fraud that would have changed the results of the election that Joe Biden is projected to have won.
“Trust in the integrity of our election processes is sacrosanct and binds our citizenry and the States in this Union together. Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin destroyed that trust and compromised the security and integrity of the 2020 election,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution. By ignoring both state and federal law, these states have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but of Texas and every other state that held lawful elections. Their failure to abide by the rule of law casts a dark shadow of doubt over the outcome of the entire election. We now ask that the Supreme Court step in to correct this egregious error.”
According to Paxton, the majority of the rushed decisions, made by local officials, were not approved by the state legislatures, thereby circumventing the Constitution.
President’s Trump’s legal team has also presented legal challenges in the battleground states, but many of those cases have been dismissed.
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