On the Oklahoma election board website, it says that absentee ballots won’t be counted until after the polls close. I don’t know if this year was different, but they were on the news saying that they ran the ballots through prior to election day, and just didn’t run the totals. Does this mean that Oklahoma should also have its votes negated? I wouldn’t mind a redo of the CD5 election.
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He could combust spontaneously. I’d not spare the urine.
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You can’t condemn this enough. It’s just an astonishingly bad action.
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“I’ve been working on these issues for the last year…” So, this is an admission that he (and his ilk) have been planning on stealing the election to ensure that Trump won all along. Guilty as charged.
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Paxton needs to realize that the ridiculous part is that he didn’t realize that filing this lawsuit on behalf of a blatantly corrupt president would raise these questions.
Paxton has astonishingly poor judgement.
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In what reality does it make sense for the Attorney General in one State to devote a “year” of his assumed busy schedule towards countering future electoral decisions in four other States? How is that an appropriate use of State resources?
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Putting this ridiculous man and his ridiculous lawsuit in support of a ridiculous president aside, Dem Rep Jamie Raskin was on Maddow last night and explained that in theory, Trump could still remain in office, if either one or both of the two houses of congress refuse to ratify the electoral results AND the governors of the states in “dispute” do so as well, OR both houses reject it AND the house then elects Trump on a state by state basis (where the GOP prevails).
Neither is likely to happen, of course, as Dems control the house and it’s very unlikely that 50 GOP senators will go along with this, and even if they did, Dems control 3 of these 4 states. But the thought that if Repubs controlled both houses with sufficient margins, and most or all of these states–all of which was true just a few years ago–then they could well reinstall Trump.
This is totally fucked up. It shouldn’t be up to partisan politicians, not of either party. It should be up to the courts. And even that’s pretty scary given the makeup of the courts these days. If this election had been much closer and/or Repubs had a bigger majority in the senate, controlled the house, or most or all of these states, Trump stays in office, with or without the help of the courts, even though he obviously stole it. We can’t keep this system in place. It’s fucking dangerous and nuts.
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What goes around does come around.
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Pardon me?
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Yes, and someone needs to ask him why he isn’t challenging the results in Kentucky where we also had expanded absentee voting including mail-in and early in-person voting. Because if it is illegal and unconstitutional in those four states then it is illegal here in Kentucky too.
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You know what is really ridiculous?
The Media asking him if he’s fishing for a pardon and expecting him to tell them the truth.
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Fishing? No. Not fishing. Trying to scoop one up with a suction dredge!
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Well, that-- and the fact that we had (limited) mail-in and (extended) early in-person voting in Texas!
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Reminder: The securities fraud indictment is a state charge that Trump cannot pardon. And the corruption investigation the FBI is currently investigating is equally prosecutable as state crimes that Trump cannot pardon.
This corrupt idiot is going to jail.
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A state suing another state because they don’t like how the election turned out there is nuts. That’s crazy on it’s face
I read a good chunk of the amicus brief from 106 goober members of Congress and there’s next to no reasoning in it. Just thick verbage. Words that sound sorta … kinda… OK. but strip the lawyerese and there’s nothing there. I hope the SCOTUS slaps this suit down … hard
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I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d spent more than a year trying to find a legal and constitutional rationale for the argument that Texas has hegemonic control over the other states in the union.
It’s a hard row to hoe, not that that’d have stopped any number of ‘conservative’ foundations from underwriting his radical reenvisioning of federalism.
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Yes but is it LESS ridiculous than you ‘thinking’ vote-by-mail ‘hurt’ TEXAS???
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So he won’t accept one if offered? Let’s put a pin on this and check back, shall we? 
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