In a move that found many slack-jawed from coast to coast, the
Pennsylvania House Speaker and Majority Leader filed a brief in the
United States Supreme Court in support of the lawsuit filed by
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that calls foul on elections in
four battleground states in the 2020 General Election.
An amici curiae brief (or friend of the court brief) filed by
Republican Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Majority
Leader Kerry Benninghoff, also a Republican, asks the US Supreme
Court to “carefully consider the procedural issues and questions
raised by the Plaintiff concerning the administration of the 2020
General Election in Pennsylvania.”
The Texas lawsuit charges that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan,
and Wisconsin illegally introduced changes to election laws that
bypassed the required legislative process, thus deeming them
unconstitutional.
Paxton’s lawsuit also contends that in doing so, those states
treated voters within their respective states unequally and created
considerable voting irregularities by rescinding certain
ballot-integrity measures.
The Texas Attorney General filed the state’s motion on Monday
night. The lawsuit is asking the High Court to declare the four
states carried out their respective elections in violation of the
US Constitution.
“The unimpeachability of our elections requires clear
procedures of administration so that everyone gets a fair shake,”
Culter and Benninghoff wrote in the brief. “Unfortunately,
outside actors have so markedly twisted and gerrymandered the
Commonwealth’s Election Code to the point that amici find it
unrecognizable from the laws that they enacted.”
The leaders of Pennsylvania’s
General Assembly have filed a brief supporting Texas’ effort to
have the Supreme Court throw out the results of the presidential
election in their state. pic.twitter.com/GI0AAe1uiQ— Brad Heath (@bradheath)
December 10, 2020
They added that the State of Texas “raised important questions
about how this procedural malfeasance affected the 2020 General
Election.”
In further support of the Texas suit, Cutler and Benninghoff
also stipulated that “under the pretextual guise of COVID-19,
special interests began attempting to use Pennsylvania courts” to
carry out “election procedures of their own choosing,” citing
mail-in ballot extensions implemented by Pennsylvania’s Secretary
of State,
Kathy Boockvar.
