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Supreme Court correctly said Texas offered a legal black hole

By Quin Hillyer
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Supreme Court correctly said Texas offered a legal black hole

The Supreme Court on Friday night essentially told Texas to stay in its lane, and the rule of law has thus been reconfirmed.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had urged the court to throw out the apparent election results from four states that President Trump lost relatively narrowly to Joe Biden. He laid out a host of explanations for why he thought fraud and error had occurred in those states to an extent greater than Biden’s margin of victory. Some of those allegations had a certain plausibility, while others were absurd.

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