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Pennsylvania Fires Back at Texas Lawsuit

Pennsylvania has responded to the Texas lawsuit attempting to bar Pennsylvania and three other battleground states from being allowed to vote in the electoral college. Pennsylvania said it is a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”

Pennsylvania’s response was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro criticized Texas for attempting to “invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees.”

The Texas lawsuit was filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday. It challenges the election results of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, arguing that unconstitutional changes to their election laws before the 2020 general election made their results illegitimate. The Supreme Court ordered the accused states to respond to the suit by Thursday afternoon.

Shapiro stated in his response, “What Texas is doing in this proceeding is to ask this Court to reconsider a mass of baseless claims about problems with the election that have already been considered, and rejected, by this Court and other courts. Texas obviously lacks standing to bring such claims, which, in any event, are barred by laches, and are moot, meritless, and dangerous.”

He added, “Texas has not suffered harm simply because it dislikes the result of the election, and nothing in the text, history, or structure of the Constitution supports Texas’s view that it can dictate the manner in which four other states run their elections, nor is that view grounded in any precedent from this Court. Texas does not seek to have the Court interpret the Constitution, so much as disregard it.”

Ohio, not a party in the lawsuit, also responded. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argued that even though Texas’s concerns are valid, the Supreme Court does not have the authority to void the outcome of the battleground states’ elections.

Under Article II of the Constitution, “[f]ederal courts, just like state courts, lack authority to change the legislatively chosen method for appointing presidential electors. And so federal courts, just like state courts, lack authority to order legislatures to appoint electors without regard to the results of an already-completed election,” Yost writes.

Paxton has also accused the battleground states of using “the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election.”

“Trust in the integrity of our election processes is sacrosanct and binds our citizenry and the States in this Union together,” he said. “Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin destroyed that trust and compromised the security and integrity of the 2020 election. The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution.”

33 COMMENTS

  1. It just goes to show everyone how corrupt these states are. I hope and pray that in the end they get what they deserve.

  2. The way this election was handled was a disgrace. A successfully orchestrated plan to bring down President Trump. What it did do was put an illegal, illegitimate party in the Executive Branch of our government. All we can do now is to continue to support President Trump and pray Pelosi and her rat pack of losers get impeached, lose all power, forced to resign, or removed from their chair positions on committees.
    This is my own opinion.

    • What they did was treason through and through. We all seen the videos of election fraud, heard testimony, signed affidavits and more. The current dims are fucking evil. Where do u think covid came from? O thedipshit gave that lab $3.7M in late 2015 and Hitlary BEGGING China for help and b on the left’s side cuz Russia was on the right(false claim she made after the election 2016)

  3. It does prove that the Supreme Court now is acting with the Democrats, either by being blackmailed or being paid off by the Chinese. The Supreme Court has been turned. We cannot ever trust them again!

  4. The Dems of today are so full of crap, when will they ever get a brain! So many corrupt states
    in this Nation. The incoming party doesn’t have the brains to run a government. We will be down
    the tubes before the 4 years are up and a broken financial country. I could go on forever.
    The Biden’s are corrupt.

  5. THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE UPHELD FEDERALLY NOT BY STATE TO STATE. THIS ONLY CREATS CAOUS AND ANARCHY. THE US SUPREME COURT SHOULD GET INVOLVED.

  6. The election process is either honest or dishonest. These elections were obviously filled with dishonesty. The Supreme Court failed us, but there should be another avenue. What is it?

  7. Pennsylvania’s AG guaranteed Trump would lose no matter what it took. He would do anything. So he violated the rules of jurisprudence and the constitution of Pennsylvania. He rigged the election everybody in the commonwealth knows that. That is why this rigged election is so sad. There is a last ditch way to fix this.

  8. These socialists are the lazy and would rather fight to get everything for free rather than get a job and support themselves. They think they deserve what everyone else has worked for. They’ll bring in more of them and put everyone into poverty. Biden is worried about coronavirus so much that he wants to bring in another 11 to 22 million foreigners to bring in more disease. We have so many homeless people in the US now, where are they going to put another 11 to 22 million?

  9. If you take out the Philly cheese steaks and the Pittsburgh steel heads, Trump won. Michigan has a stupid corrupt governor and Detroit is a mess. Stacy Abrams runs Georgia now and Milwaukee is a bunch of garbage. There is your election. Glad Ron Desantis fixed our corrupt counties.

  10. I think the Democrats, especially the ones In elected positions, spend sleepless nights and nightmare days because of the mob like actions you have allowed or participated in! When the Democrats decide Biden is mentally incapable of being President, I hope you are ready for a Harris presidency! Remember she was the candidate that couldn’t get 2% in the primary!
    Congratulations Idiots!!!

  11. If this election results stand, we can all claim to be illegal aliens, all go on the federal dime, kill, rape, burn our cities to the ground because we are no longer a nation under law. We can become Democrats and have sex with Chinese spies, go overseas and make lots of money for doing nothing. When SCOTUS is dissolved we can look back and say, “I remember when there was law in our land”.

  12. The “abuse” occurred when the rampant VOTER FRAUD was OPENLY taking place in all the “battleground states” at the same time. This was a coordinated and pre-planned effort by the communists to use (as they opined) “BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY” to swing the “election” to dementia-Joe and his ineligible “anchor baby” VP “pick”
    The FRAUD was so obvious that even a “blind person” could “see” it happening. The communists and their “followers” did not even try to hide the FACT they were intent on using RAMPANT FRAUD, to steal the election for their “new world order”, “one world government”, “globalist”, COMMUNIST, “masters”.

    • What is wrong with every one we need to not have a sore loser. Republican and Democrates are both the same they promise things while campaigning but don’t deliver when elected .

  13. Penn State says communist’s and communist run states don’t have to have fair & free election…massive voter fraud is permissible and welcomed in Pennsylvania…right?

  14. SCOTUS AND PENNSYLVANIA LACKS THE BALLS IT TAKES TO STAND UP TO “THE BIG BULLY”! SUCH A CANDY ASS GOVERNMENT! THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY DON’T RUFFLE ANY FEATHERS BECAUSE THEY THINK DEMOCRATS ARE GOING TO WIN. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IS THE ONLY “MAN” STANDING UP TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND ALL THEIR BULLSHIT FOR ALL GHESE YEARS! THANK GOD TRUMP CAME ALONG WHEN HE DID OR OBAMA AND CLINTON WOULD HAVE ABOLISHED THESE GREAT UNITED STATES! THANK YOU TO DONALD TRUMP FOR BEING THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS EVER REALLY DONE ANYTHING FOR THIS COUNTRY AND ACTUALLY MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! ONE REASON MOST LIKE HIM IS BECAUSE HE’S “NOT” A POLITCIAN AND HE ACTUALLY DOES WHAT HE SAYS HE’S GOING TO DO AND STANDS BY IT AND OWNS IT! NOT LIKE THESE WEAK ASS POLITICIANS WHO CATER TO EVERY OTHER COUNTRY AND EVERYBODY ELSES BELIEFS AND WISHES JUST AS LONG AS ITS NOT ANY WHITE AMERICANS! THE “TRUE” CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY HAS NO VOICE ANYMORE IT LOOKS LIKE. I’M A USAF VET WHO’S GONE THROUGH DESERT STORM AND THE PANAMANIAN CONFLICT AND I SGAND UP FOR WHAT I BELIEVE AND I’D FIGHT FOR THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS ANYTIME ANYWHERE! AND IF THAT MEANS RIGHT OUT HERE IN OUR VERY STREETS THE. I SAY BRIBG IT THE FUCK ON! YOU HAVE TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH EVERY NOW AND THEN! MAY GOD BLESS DONALD TRUMP AND HIS FAMILY AND MAY GOD BLESS THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! STEPHEN WILLIAMS.

  15. I am saddened that despite the very apparent occurrences of fraud displayed in places like Pennsylvania, where truckloads of ballots were carted in from White Plains, New York and suitcases full of ballots pulled out from under the table in Georgia; numerous reports of dead voters, underage voters and voters who were not residents of the reporting district; the direct quote from a Biden speech in October: “We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Our Supreme Court declined to listen to objections presented by a number of other States thereby creating a legacy of being willing and active participants in the destruction of our once great Nation.

    We can now look forward to a drift to Socialism and Communism and becoming a vassal state of Communist China and our Supreme Court just sat and watched it happen.

  16. The Democrats are a bunch of ruthless Bastards belong over in Iran for use as target practice by the Iran Army. The Democrats can not do anything on the up and up they have to cheat or steal and LIE all the time.The House and Senate have to many Drunks and Low life people in the Democrat party also some Rino’s Republicans.President Trump she call for Marshall Law and clean house and fill up prisons.Take all the benefits away from Congress and Senate. You got to work for the American Citizens before you get the benefits like the Citizen of the USA do.Take the rag heads out of Government and the brainless AOC out for sure. No more than 2 term limits all these Politicians come out Multi Millionaires.The Corruptions shows who’s screwing who.Obama and his so called man wife Michell surely should have been their many years already. He was a illegal President born in Kenya.WHY in the hell do the American People Have to put up wit this Corruption? We as citizens don’t get buy with any of these deals. President Trump don’t let them Democrats screw you out of your Victory with the rigged election. Also I forgot a important point Take the Take Sores,Hillary,Slick Willie in Solitary Confinement its way overdue. The Muller Report should be taken out of the Democrats money since Hillary paid for it .That was all BULLSHIT.

  17. Well maybe Trump can pull off martial law and start getting things fixed and not have to hand off to hidin Biden until he sees fit to take back martial law

  18. Regarding: Pennsylvania has responded to the Texas lawsuit attempting to bar Pennsylvania and three other battleground states from being allowed to vote in the electoral college. Pennsylvania said it is a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”
    Response: If the Texas lawsuit were an attempt to disallow those states, including Pennsylvania, from voting in the Electoral College system, that effort may have inappropriate.

    Those states should be able to participate in the Electoral process.

    The charges by Texas might have been more appropriately presented had it offered that in some states the voting protocols were not, legally, followed which may have produced results that would be different had those protocols been adhered. If a correct tabulation of votes had been done, it may have affected the results.

    The only office to be reviewed would be that of the POTUS, since that position is common to all states. If the SCOTUS allowed an examination and that exercise exposed errors to the extent that the winner of the election would be Mr. Trump, that would affect all states, including Texas.

    Texas selected President Trump and if he were not elected, it would be damaging to Texas, thus Texas has “standing”. Texas should not ask the SCOTUS to disallow a state from participating in the judicial process.

    Texas has the responsibility to protect its citizens, thus must request an in-depth review of the tabulation process in Pennsylvania.

    Specific attention to protocols involving mail-in ballots with particular attention devoted to:
    1. Verifying signatures
    2. Disallow a ballot that is not signed
    3. Disallow a ballot, received after November 3, 2020, not having a clear USPO postmark, dated not later than November 3, and no later than the time voting was to end.
    4. Disallow those ballots that were not properly observed.
    5. Use a national CPA firm to do various testing.
    6. Changes in protocols must be examined for propriety.

    Regarding: Pennsylvania’s response was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro criticized Texas for attempting to “invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees.”
    Response: The election should not be invalidated but, if errors found, it must be “adjusted”.

    Regarding: The Texas lawsuit was filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday. It challenges the election results of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, arguing that unconstitutional changes to their election laws before the 2020 general election made their results illegitimate. The Supreme Court ordered the accused states to respond to the suit by Thursday afternoon.
    Response: Obviously, should be addressed.

    Regarding: Shapiro stated in his response, “What Texas is doing in this proceeding is to ask this Court to reconsider a mass of baseless claims about problems with the election that have already been considered, and rejected, by this Court and other courts. Texas obviously lacks standing to bring such claims, which, in any event, are barred by laches, and are moot, meritless, and dangerous.”

    Regarding: He added, “Texas has not suffered harm simply because it dislikes the result of the election, and nothing in the text, history, or structure of the Constitution supports Texas’s view that it can dictate the manner in which four other states run their elections, nor is that view grounded in any precedent from this Court. Texas does not seek to have the Court interpret the Constitution, so much as disregard it.”
    Response: Texas may have suffered harm and that determination would be made subsequent to the examination.

    Regarding: Ohio, not a party in the lawsuit, also responded. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argued that even though Texas’s concerns are valid, the Supreme Court does not have the authority to void the outcome of the battleground states’ elections.
    Under Article II of the Constitution, “[f]ederal courts, just like state courts, lack authority to change the legislatively chosen method for appointing presidential electors. And so federal courts, just like state courts, lack authority to order legislatures to appoint electors without regard to the results of an already-completed election,” Yost writes.
    Responding: I disagree.

    Regarding: Paxton has also accused the battleground states of using “the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election.”
    “Trust in the integrity of our election processes is sacrosanct and binds our citizenry and the States in this Union together,” he said. “Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin destroyed that trust and compromised the security and integrity of the 2020 election. The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution.”
    Response: Ancillary, not requisite.

    michael zitterman
    [email protected]
    November 13, 2020

  19. How much corruption and fraud is enough to negate the process? I hear there was not enough to have made a difference. Is that so ? I say if you are guilty of fraud, then you are guilty. Go to jail. Not “HALF GUILTY.” Don’t have to be guilty enough to have swung the vote. Guilty is punishable with jail. The Democratic Party is guilty and it is not incumbent upon the rest of us to prove to what extent the “Party” was corrupt. Can’t win the presidency if your Party has perpetuated a fraudulent election.

  20. THERE SHOULD NOT BE LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS OF JUSTICES WHO TAKE THE OATH TO PROTECT OR CONSTITUTION, BUT WHEN CALLED TO DO JUST THAT, HAVE NO BACKBONE TO STAND FOR OUR CONSTITUTION!!!!!!

  21. Regarding: Pennsylvania has responded to the Texas lawsuit attempting to bar Pennsylvania and three other battleground states from being allowed to vote in the electoral college. Pennsylvania said it is a “seditious abuse of the judicial process.”
    Response: If the Texas lawsuit were an attempt to disallow those states, including Pennsylvania, from voting in the Electoral College system, that effort may have inappropriate.

    Those states should be able to participate in the Electoral process.

    The charges by Texas might have been more appropriately presented had it offered that in some states the voting protocols were not, legally, followed which may have produced results that would be different had those protocols been adhered. If a correct tabulation of votes had been done, it may have affected the results.

    The only office to be reviewed would be that of the POTUS, since that position is common to all states. If the SCOTUS allowed an examination and that exercise exposed errors to the extent that the winner of the election would be Mr. Trump, that would affect all states, including Texas.

    Texas selected President Trump and if he were not elected, it would be damaging to Texas, thus Texas has “standing”. Texas should not ask the SCOTUS to disallow a state from participating in the judicial process.

    Texas has the responsibility to protect its citizens, thus must request an in-depth review of the tabulation process in Pennsylvania.

    Specific attention to protocols involving mail-in ballots with particular attention devoted to:
    1. Verifying signatures
    2. Disallow a ballot that is not signed
    3. Disallow a ballot, received after November 3, 2020, not having a clear USPO postmark, dated not later than November 3, and no later than the time voting was to end.
    4. Disallow those ballots that were not properly observed.
    5. Use a national CPA firm to do various testing.
    6. Changes in protocols must be examined for propriety.

    Regarding: Pennsylvania’s response was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro criticized Texas for attempting to “invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees.”
    Response: The election should not be invalidated but, if errors found, it must be “adjusted”.

    Regarding: The Texas lawsuit was filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday. It challenges the election results of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, arguing that unconstitutional changes to their election laws before the 2020 general election made their results illegitimate. The Supreme Court ordered the accused states to respond to the suit by Thursday afternoon.
    Response: Obviously, should be addressed.

    Regarding: Shapiro stated in his response, “What Texas is doing in this proceeding is to ask this Court to reconsider a mass of baseless claims about problems with the election that have already been considered, and rejected, by this Court and other courts. Texas obviously lacks standing to bring such claims, which, in any event, are barred by laches, and are moot, meritless, and dangerous.”
    Response: Texas may not lack “standing”. Consider the foregoing. How do we know until we know?

    Regarding: He added, “Texas has not suffered harm simply because it dislikes the result of the election, and nothing in the text, history, or structure of the Constitution supports Texas’s view that it can dictate the manner in which four other states run their elections, nor is that view grounded in any precedent from this Court. Texas does not seek to have the Court interpret the Constitution, so much as disregard it.”
    Response: Texas may have suffered harm and that determination would be made subsequent to the examination.

    Regarding: Ohio, not a party in the lawsuit, also responded. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argued that even though Texas’s concerns are valid, the Supreme Court does not have the authority to void the outcome of the battleground states’ elections.
    Under Article II of the Constitution, “[f]ederal courts, just like state courts, lack authority to change the legislatively chosen method for appointing presidential electors. And so federal courts, just like state courts, lack authority to order legislatures to appoint electors without regard to the results of an already-completed election,” Yost writes.
    Responding: I disagree.

    Regarding: Paxton has also accused the battleground states of using “the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election.”
    “Trust in the integrity of our election processes is sacrosanct and binds our citizenry and the States in this Union together,” he said. “Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin destroyed that trust and compromised the security and integrity of the 2020 election. The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution.”
    Response: Ancillary, not requisite.

    michael zitterman
    [email protected]
    November 13, 2020

    Office of the Attorney General P.O. Box 12548 (MC 059) Austin, TX 78711-2548 [email protected] (512) 936-1414 * Counsel of Reco

  22. I’m glad Trump is out because he is suppose to be the leader of our country but when he clearly last he can’t except it and acts like a child.Trump is the one who tried to cheat on the voting but back fired on him.The people wants him out.Instead of focusing on the pandemic all he is worrying about is not leaving the office.Like somebody said the fat lady has song it’s over move on.The Republicans scared of Trump who needs that kind of mess in the office.

  23. What truths are some of the justices hiding from being released that they are willing to sacrifice our country to keep quiet? It seems kind of strange how controlled one justice became after visiting Pig Island with one of our X Presidents.

  24. All I can say is “Thanks Dems”. Because of your stupidity, America is now fucked…and you did this…

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