Jeb Bush said the Texas election lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court is destined for failure.
Bush, Florida’s Republican governor from 1999 to 2007 and a contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination who clashed with then-candidate Donald Trump, bashed the lawsuit over Twitter and suggested that Trump should move on from his loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
“This is crazy. it will be killed on arrival. Why are smart people advancing this notion? Let it go. The election is over,” Bush tweeted on Friday in response to a post about how Texas’s solicitor general has kept his distance from the litigation.
This is crazy. it will be killed on arrival. Why are smart people advancing this notion? Let it go. The election is over. https://t.co/ocvaAYnata
— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) December 11, 2020
The lawsuit is being spearheaded by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and alleges that Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia all made unconstitutional changes to their election procedures. Paxton and others are hoping for the Supreme Court to overturn the results in those battleground states, all of which were won by Biden.
Although Trump filed a motion to intervene and several states have signed on to the legal effort, officials in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia have expressed acrimony toward Texas for attempting to get involved in their electoral processes.
“Texas proposes an extraordinary intrusion into Wisconsin’s and the other defendant States’ elections, a task that the Constitution leaves to each State,” said Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul in a Thursday brief. “Wisconsin has conducted its election and its voters have chosen a winning candidate for their State. Texas’s bid to nullify that choice is devoid of a legal foundation or a factual basis.”
Vice President Mike Pence, who was in Georgia for a rally, said Thursday that “Trump deserves his day in court, the Supreme Court,” and he vowed to “keep fighting until every legal vote is counted.”
The Supreme Court previously rejected a Republican group’s appeal of a Pennsylvania lawsuit that sought to invalidate a mail-in voting law passed by the GOP-controlled state legislature.
