The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Attorney General, rising star Josh Shapiro, responded to the corrupt, pardon-seeking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's dangerously authoritarian brief for the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election and install unhinged con man Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump in office. The full response is here; some of the key passages:
"Texas seeks to invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees. Its request for this Court to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas’s preferred candidate for President is legally indefensible and is an afront to principles of constitutional democracy.
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. [snip]
The cascading series of compounding defects in Texas’s filings is only underscored by the surreal alternate reality that those filings attempt to construct. That alternate reality includes an absurd statistical analysis positing that the probability of President- Elect Biden winning the election was 'one in a quadrillion.' Bill of Complaint at 6. Texas’s effort to get this Court to pick the next President has no basis in law or fact. The Court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated." (our emphasis)
The three other battleground States that Texas and other Trump cult Attorneys General have targeted -- Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin -- have also responded separately to the brief. One hundred and six of Trump's cowardly Congressional conspirators have also filed an amicus brief in support of this seditious move. On the other side, the District of Columbia, and 22 States and territories have filed an amicus brief in support of the four battleground States' motion.
The pathetic attempt of a pardon-seeking state Attorney General to curry Trump's favor has led to this obvious legal farce, one that should be quickly and firmly dispensed with by the Supreme Court.
BONUS: Even "non- partisan" SCOTUSBlog is incensed and getting off the sidelines --
This may be our first Editorial in the nearly two decades of the blog’s existence. The Supreme Court should decimate Texas’ original action seeking to invalidate the results of others states’ votes. https://t.co/M5TeehbfTv
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) December 11, 2020
