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The voters of the states that tipped the Election for Biden, should be proud that they have state Attorneys General ready to stand on principle … and stand up for the Constitution and for democratic process too.
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Pennsylvania:
"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," wrote Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
The Texas lawsuit, Shapiro said, rested on a "surreal alternate reality."
Michigan:
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel addressed the lawsuit with equally strong language, writing that "the election in Michigan is over. Texas comes as a stranger to this matter and should not be heard here."
"The challenge here is an unprecedented one, without factual foundation or a valid legal basis," Michigan's brief said.
Georgia:
Chris Carr, the attorney general of Georgia, put more emphasis on the federalism implications of Texas' lawsuit in his filing. "Texas presses a generalized grievance that does not involve the sort of direct state-against-state controversy required for original jurisdiction," he wrote.
"And in any case, there is another forum in which parties who (unlike Texas) have standing can challenge Georgia's compliance with its own election laws: Georgia's own courts."
Wisconsin:
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul similarly cast the lawsuit as an "extraordinary intrusion into Wisconsin's and the other defendant States' elections, a task that the Constitution leaves to each State."
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Keith Olbermann explained today how this absurd claim against the sovereignty of these other 4 states to conduct their own Elections — is much more than laughable — it is instead sedition. A crime against America itself.
If we were wise, these craven abuses of power would be charged, and held to account, by the next administration’s DOJ. Failure to do so will only cause our Democracy to crumble further, as the GOP’s “sore loserism” becomes the new unacceptable norm.
Such is the long legacy of letting Nixon et al. escape the consequences of their anti-American actions. As if time will indeed heal all wounds. It does not. They only fester. They only spread. They only get more malignant, as they go unattended — year after GOP-abusing year.
Such betrayals of our Democratic process are a cancer. They must be dealt with judicially, or our fragile American experiment in Democracy “of, by and for the People,” will go the way of other authoritarian take-overs. SEE Putin’s on-going power-grabs, for Exhibit A, in that devolution pattern.
Besides, by prosecuting these current seditious actors, be they intentional or just for spite and political chaos, we might rid ourselves of some of biggest Power-abusers in Congress. Lindsey I’m looking at you. Mitch too if he can be caught in the act of overturning the will of the American People — all for the sake of maintaining their maniacal grips … on relevancy.
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Citation source:
Supreme Court: Battleground states issue blistering rebukes to Texas' lawsuit to invalidate millions of votes
by Ariane de Vogue and Paul LeBlanc, CNN — Dec 10, 2020
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Their abuse of power will only fester and spread, if not held to account ...