Trump says campaign ‘will be INTERVENING’ in Texas lawsuit against battleground states Biden won

“There is massive evidence of widespread fraud in the four states (plus) mentioned in the Texas suit. Just look at all of the tapes and affidavits!” he added.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit directly with the Supreme Court on Monday, and it alleges that the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the states of Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin unconstitutionally changed how their state votes ahead of the 2020 election. Texas is seeking the Supreme Court to rule that the states can send electors to vote for Trump despite the election’s results. Officials from the states named in the suit have rebuked it.

Democratic attorneys general in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin issued a joint statement saying, “These insignificant attempts to disregard the will of the people in our three states mislead the public and tear at the fabric of our Constitution. The people in our states voted. Their votes were counted—in some cases multiple times. And the results have been certified. It’s well past time for the President and our fellow states and elected officials to stop misleading the public about this year’s election and to acknowledge that the results certified in our states reflect the decisions made by the voters in a free, fair, and secure election.”

Attorneys general from Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, and Louisiana were the first to throw their support behind the litigation, saying they’ll fight along with them. They have since been joined by more than a dozen other states: Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.

“Election integrity is central to our republic. And I will defend it at every turn. As I have in other cases — I will help lead the effort in support of Texas’ #SCOTUS filing today. Missouri is in the fight,” Eric Schmitt, the attorney general from Missouri, tweeted on Tuesday night, while Leslie Rutledge, the attorney general of Arkansas, said she will “support” the lawsuit “in all legally appropriate manners.”

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said, “The unconstitutional actions and fraudulent votes in other states not only affect the citizens of those states, they affect the citizens of all states—of the entire United States,” while Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said his office has “joined [the lawsuit] representing the citizens of Louisiana.”

Marshall added that he expects the Supreme Court will “act quickly in deciding whether to grant the State of Texas’s request,” and that decision “will instruct me as to how the State of Alabama will proceed in our fight to ensure election integrity.”

The president thanked those attorneys general, saying: “Wow! At least 17 States have joined Texas in the extraordinary case against the greatest Election Fraud in the history of the United States. Thank you!”

The suit, which says the election “suffered from significant and unconstitutional irregularities,” also claims there were “intrastate differences” in how certain voters were treated and that there was an unconstitutional “relaxation” of ballot-integrity laws.

Paxton’s lawsuit, which has been called “insane” by some legal scholars, echoes claims made in similar suits filed in different courts throughout the country. Some of those lawsuits came from the Trump campaign, and others have come from adjacent but separate entities. To date, the suits have been overwhelmingly unsuccessful, but the latest tactic has been to try to convince states to appoint pro-Trump electors. Despite the claims, most election officials and the Department of Justice have found no proof to support allegations of widespread fraud on a scale large enough to overturn the election results.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican-led attempt to overturn the election results showing a win for Biden in a separate case. Their decision could spell trouble for Paxton’s suit.