The Republican leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives provided a “friend of the law” to the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 10, expressing his support for the Texas lawsuit. U.S. Supreme Court.
The Pennsylvania House Speaker and Majority Leader filed an amici curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday (Dec. 10) in support of Texas’ lawsuit against the four swing states.
According to the Epoch Times website, Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff filed an amici curiae brief with the Supreme Court on December 10, asking the Supreme Court to carefully consider the procedural issues raised in the defendants’ brief regarding the Pennsylvania government’s introduction of election-related policy reforms in the 2020 presidential election and the impact of those procedural issues on Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election.
The brief states, “We want to ensure that the general election requires unquestionably clear administrative procedures so that every voter can participate fairly; unfortunately, during the 2020 election, outside actors (meaning Pennsylvania state officials) so clearly distorted and unfairly manipulated Pennsylvania’s Election Code that we, the amici, do not know what statutes they (the state) enacted under. ) under which statutes these laws were enacted.”
The filing also cites the mail-in ballot introduced by Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar as an example of special interest groups, using the “Chinese Communist Virus” (also known as the New Coronavirus, COVID-19) epidemic as an excuse to try to use Pennsylvania courts to force the general election process they demand.
An amicus curiae filing by the leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is a legal case in which a non-party or agency provides information or legal documents related to the case to the court, either voluntarily or at the request of one of the parties to the lawsuit, to assist in the proceedings or to provide the court with a better understanding of what is at issue in the case. “An amicus curiae may file papers that may influence the court’s decision, support the position of any party to the litigation, or express the amicus curiae’s own independent views or opinions.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday (Dec. 8) alleging that the four swing states – Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin – introduced election regulations during the 2020 presidential election that were not approved by their respective state legislatures, that the election process was unconstitutional, and that voters in those states were treated unfairly in the 2020 election because they did not follow measures to ensure the integrity of the election.
In a statement, Paxton said, “These states violated the laws designated by their relevant legislatures and therefore violated the state’s constitution; and by disregarding their state and federal laws, these states not only tarnished the integrity of their state’s voter ballots, but also undermined the integrity of elections for voters in Texas and other states that hold legitimate general elections.”
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