The State of Texas filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S.
Supreme Court shortly before midnight on Monday�challenging the
election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and
Wisconsin on the grounds that they violate the Constitution.
Texas argues that these states violated the Electors Clause of
the Constitution because
they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts
or through executive actions, but not through the state
legislatures. Additionally, Texas argues that there were
differences in voting rules and procedures in different counties
within the states, violating the Constitution’s Equal Protection
Clause. Finally, Texas argues that there were “voting
irregularities†in these states as a result of the above.
Texas is asking the Supreme Court to order the states to allow
their legislatures to appoint their electors. The lawsuit says:
Certain officials in the Defendant States presented the pandemic
as the justification for ignoring state laws regarding absentee and
mail-in voting. The Defendant States flooded their citizenry with
tens of millions of ballot applications and ballots in derogation
of statutory controls as to how they are lawfully received,
evaluated, and counted. Whether well intentioned or not, these
unconstitutional acts had the same uniform effect—they made the
2020 election less secure in the Defendant States. Those changes
are inconsistent with relevant state laws and were made by
non-legislative entities, without any consent by the state
legislatures. The acts of these officials thus directly violated
the Constitution.
…
This case presents a question of law: Did the Defendant States
violate the Electors Clause by taking non-legislative actions to
change the election rules that would govern the appointment of
presidential electors? These non-legislative changes to the
Defendant States’ election laws facilitated the casting and
counting of ballots in violation of state law, which, in turn,
violated the Electors Clause of Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of
the U.S. Constitution. By these unlawful acts, the Defendant States
have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote,
but their actions have also debased the votes of citizens in
Plaintiff State and other States that remained loyal to the
Constitution.
Texas approached the Supreme Court directly because Article III
provides that it is the court of first impression on subjects where
it has original jurisdiction, such as disputes between two or more
states.
Franklin Graham – “URGENT
PRAYER REQUEST— The State of Texas has filed an election
integrity lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the
States of Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The suit, filed in the
Supreme Court of the United States, asserts that these four states
conducted their presidential elections on November 3rd in an
unconstitutional manner. Texas is seeking an injunction to prevent
these four states from participating in the Electoral College next
Monday, December 14, until claims of election irregularities and
fraud can be resolved. If an injunction is not issued, the
presidential election will end next Monday. Without an injunction,
even if massive election fraud came out and was proven later, it
would simply be too late due to the process for the selection of
the President outlined in the US Constitution.
Join me in praying that if there is fraud, it would be
proven—for the good of our nation and all future elections.
Forces of evil are at work, and we know how much is at stake. Pray
for God’s will to be done in the outcome of this important
election. Please pray—the only hope for our country is
God.“
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Texas Sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, & Wisconsin at
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