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No, this is not a thing that will change the election. At all.
If this is real - and I do emphasize the if - it is posturing by the elected Republican "leadership" of Texas in an attempt to pander to a base that has degraded from merely deplorable to utterly despicable.
Apparently, it is real. For a given definition of real, anyway. As Steve notes, the Texas Solicitor General - that's the lawyer who is supposed to represent the state in cases like this - has noped out and the AG is counsel of
It looks like we have a new leader in the \u201ccraziest lawsuit filed to purportedly challenge the election\u201d category:
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 8, 2020
The State of Texas is suing Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin *directly* in #SCOTUS.
(Spoiler alert: The Court is *never* going to hear this one.) pic.twitter.com/2L4GmdCB6I
Although - again - I'm curious as to the source. I'm seeing no press release on the Texas AG's site; I'm wondering if this might not be a document released by whoever the "special counsel" to the AG is - strange situation.
Doesn't matter. The Supreme Court is Supremely Unlikely to take this case - their jurisdiction is exclusive, but it's also discretionary.
Meaning, for nonlawyers:
SCOTUS is the only place where one state can sue another, but SCOTUS can and often does decline to take the case.
BOOM \U0001f4a5 She spanked them all
— KELLY CURRIE STOP THE STEAL (@currie14_kelly) December 5, 2020
the way though and through \U0001f64c\U0001f3fb\U0001f64c\U0001f3fb
Watch Did you sign Did you?
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This whole war with CCP subversion agents is basically just the Crab People episode of South Park, down to the part where they turn all the men gay.
— Derek (Lid on Likes) (#Kraken Emeritus) (@PereGrimmer) December 5, 2020
Once you break the shell, they got nothing. They just run
#lawoffunny
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The video broke them. Semantic games are all they have left. https://t.co/rIeAas6Ngg
— The Columbia Bugle \U0001f1fa\U0001f1f8 (@ColumbiaBugle) December 6, 2020
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Sascha Barone Cohen's PhD thesis is about how predatory communists and gangsters got together to hoodwink blacks and other minorities of their pride and agency and self-respect through the Trojan horse of "civil rights".
— Derek (Lid on Likes) (#Kraken Emeritus) (@PereGrimmer) December 5, 2020
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— Derek (Lid on Likes) (#Kraken Emeritus) (@PereGrimmer) December 4, 2020