Texas Sen. John Cornyn has criticized a Supreme Court lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to have the Supreme Court invalidate election results in four key battleground states - Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Cornyn said he is unconvinced by the case's legal theory.
"Number one, why would a state, even such a great state as Texas, have a say-so on how other states administer their elections?" Cornyn asked CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju. "We have a diffused and dispersed system, and even though we might not like it, they may think it's unfair, those (election policies) are decided at the state and local level and not at the national level."
So far, the Republican attorneys general of 17 red states have signed amicus briefs in support of Paxton's lawsuit including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia, Vice News reports.
His colleague, Sen. Ted Cruz, has volunteered to argue the a similar case in front of the Supreme Court.
Paxton's lawsuit basically says that local officials changed voting policies, including the expansion of mail-in ballots due to COVID-19, without the permission of state legislatures, thus violating Article 2 of the U.S. Constitution. As such, he wants the four states' ballots thrown out and each state's Republican-led legislature to decide who to cast their own electoral votes for rather than casting them for the winner of the popular vote.
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