https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/10\/seditious-abuse-judicial-process-reject-texas-effort-election-joe-biden-win-444414<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Officials from four presidential swing states forcefully criticized an effort by Texas and President Donald Trump to enlist the Supreme Court to overturn Joe Biden\u2019s victory in the presidential election, with Pennsylvania calling the last-ditch legal effort \u201cseditious\u201d and built on an \u201cabsurd\u201d foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated,\u201d Pennsylvania said in a 43-page brief signed by Attorney General Josh Shapiro and his deputies.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn support of such a request, Texas brings to the Court only discredited allegations and conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact,\u201d the attorneys wrote. \u201cAccepting Texas\u2019s view would do violence to the Constitution and the Framers\u2019 vision.\u201d<\/p>\n
The briefs from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin \u2014 states targeted in Texas\u2019 lawsuit, brought by Attorney General Ken Paxton, which Trump is attempting to join \u2014 directed their fury largely at Paxton. And they pleaded with the justices to reject the suit out of hand, warning that anything else would give states unprecedented power to sue each other to enforce their will, leading to waves of partisan retribution that shake the foundations of federalism.”<\/p>\n
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“Texas\u2019 lawsuit drew skepticism even among Republicans on Capitol Hill, who have broadly been supportive of the president\u2019s efforts to undermine faith in the democratic system. Some Texas GOP lawmakers, including Sen. John Cornyn, raised questions about the merits. Rep. Chip Roy called it \u201ca dangerous violation of federalism,\u201d and House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy twice dodged questions about whether he backed the legal effort.<\/p>\n
However, a group of 106 House Republicans signed a friend of the court briefing, arguing the defendant states acted illegally and that their electors should be prevented from voting.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[864,375,431,372,21,170],"class_list":["post-4019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-autocracy","tag-biden","tag-democracy","tag-election","tag-texas","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4019\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}