Texas Says It's Challenging Election Results at U.S. Supreme Court

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74. Haven't read the pleadings.

Have you?

Even without seeing a complaint, I can articulate a straight-faced argument that the votes of residents of my state (any state) were diluted when other states allowed voting that somehow failed to comply with Constitutional standards. An AG therefore would have standing under the doctrine of Parens Patriae. The argument would be crap and turn the concept of federalism on its head, but that has never stopped Republicans before notwithstanding all of their rhetoric.

My strong suspicion is that this is political grandstanding by a dirty Texas Attorney General who is being investigated by the FBI and wants a Presidential pardon. https://apnews.com/article/ken-paxton-austin-texas-crime-f8413d14842d848e69cf81bb4d2e87e2, https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/03/texas-ken-paxton-bribery-investigation/. This will go away quickly. And Paxton will likely get his pardon unfortunately.