The U.S. Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit with the Federal Supreme Court on August 8, alleging that the election process in the four major swing states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin is unconstitutional.
When the “safe harbor” deadline set by the U.S. presidential election statute expired, Paxton petitioned the federal Supreme Court directly for leave to file a complaint alleging that Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin had illegally changed the mail-in voting requirement, asking the justices to enjoin the counting of 62 electoral votes in the four states.
In addition, 17 other states, including Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia, supported the filing of the lawsuit in the federal Supreme Court, according to a comprehensive media report. Arizona also filed an amicus curiae in aid of the lawsuit, but is not a party to any of the lawsuits.
On September 9, Trump filed a motion to the Supreme Court to intervene in the case in his personal capacity to protect his unique and significant personal interest as a re-election candidate, and also asked Ted Cruz, a Republican federal senator from Texas, to take charge of arguing the case, with 18 states named as plaintiffs. Trump tweeted, “We will be joining Texas (plus many other states) in the case. This is a big case and our country needs to win!”
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