A more amusing but no less pertinent response.
This Isn't a Lawsuit. It's Rube Bait.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton—still under indictment—has aimed this flaming zeppelin straight at the Supreme Court.
_By Charles P. Pierce
Dec 8, 2020
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politic...-election/
us president donald trump waves upon arrival, alongside attorney general of texas ken paxton l in dallas, texas, on june 11, 2020, where he will host a roundtable with faith leaders and small business owners photo by nicholas kamm afp photo by nicholas kammafp via
NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty Images
By now, you may have heard that the state of Texas, the meth lab of American democracy , has decided to sue Pennsylvania, Georgia, Mississippi, and Wisconsin because El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago lost the election and that...simply...cannot...stand. And the fact that the guy bringing the suit on behalf of Texas is currently under indictment is only a lunatic detail in the general mosaic of pure crazy. From CBS Dallas:
Paxton said those states tainted the integrity of the vote in Texas and all states...
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed a lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the United States Supreme Court. The four states exploited 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. The battleground states flooded their people with unlawful ballot applications and ballots while ignoring statutory requirements as to how they were received, evaluated and counted."
So we should not let pass the fact that Paxton may well become a plaintiff and a defendant simultaneously. From Governing.com:
Paxton faces three counts: two for securities fraud, and another for acting as an investment advisor or representative without registering. The indictments were unsealed Monday.
They allege that Paxton offered to sell two people more than $100,000 worth of stock in a McKinney technology company, but didn’t disclose that the company was compensating him. Paxton also didn’t make clear that he hadn’t personally invested in the company, the indictments allege. He received 100,000 shares, but that was in the form of compensation, according to the indictment.
So this (alleged) stockjobber is now peddling perhaps the most ridiculous bag of hot air yet dispatched into the country's legal system.
Paxton and Texas are suing, for example, Wisconsin, and its Republican state legislature, for adapting its election laws to the context of the pandemic. This, of course, is none of Texas's damn business. In the actual filing, the description of the "injury" done to Texas by its fellow states is so laughably sparse that it consists of barely a single paragraph.
Also, if your argument is based on the Constitution's mandate that states control their own elections, it is not helpful to argue that you were injured by the exercise of that control. This isn't a lawsuit. It's rube bait that should be subject to the fraud statutes, with which Ken Paxton is undoubtedly familiar.
Later in the filing, Paxton and Texas go long on every bit of "evidence" over which state and federal judges have consistently become nauseous for a month.
The rampant lawlessness arising out of Defendant States’ unconstitutional acts is described in a number of currently pending lawsuits in Defendant States or in public view including...
Videos of: poll workers erupting in cheers as poll challengers are removed from vote counting centers; poll watchers being blocked from entering vote counting centers—despite even having a court order to enter; suitcases full of ballots being pulled out from underneath tables after poll watchers were told to leave.
Facts for which no independently verified reasonable explanation yet exists: On October 1, 2020, in Pennsylvania a laptop and several USB drives, used to program Pennsylvania’s Dominion voting machines, were mysteriously stolen from a warehouse in Philadelphia...
In Michigan, which also employed the same Dominion voting system, on November 4, 2020, Michigan election officials have admitted that a purported “glitch” caused 6,000 votes for President Trump to be wrongly switched to Democrat Candidate Biden. ... A flash drive containing tens of thousands of votes was left unattended in the Milwaukee tabulations center in the early morning hours of Nov. 4, 2020, without anyone aware it was not in a proper chain of custody.
I'm surprised that there aren't videos from OAN attached as exhibits.
Moreover, Paxton has aimed this flaming zeppelin straight at the Supreme Court. I would not be surprised if various rube state officials join in this fantastical exercise, the way that so many states joined Texas' attempt to kill the Affordable Care Act.
But unless someone somewhere arranges that Chief Justice John Roberts be kidnapped by Somali pirates, it is almost impossible to imagine that the Supreme Court would get anywhere near this toxic waste. Emphasis, as always, on "almost."
This Isn't a Lawsuit. It's Rube Bait.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton—still under indictment—has aimed this flaming zeppelin straight at the Supreme Court.
_By Charles P. Pierce
Dec 8, 2020
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politic...-election/
us president donald trump waves upon arrival, alongside attorney general of texas ken paxton l in dallas, texas, on june 11, 2020, where he will host a roundtable with faith leaders and small business owners photo by nicholas kamm afp photo by nicholas kammafp via
NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty Images
By now, you may have heard that the state of Texas, the meth lab of American democracy , has decided to sue Pennsylvania, Georgia, Mississippi, and Wisconsin because El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago lost the election and that...simply...cannot...stand. And the fact that the guy bringing the suit on behalf of Texas is currently under indictment is only a lunatic detail in the general mosaic of pure crazy. From CBS Dallas:
Paxton said those states tainted the integrity of the vote in Texas and all states...
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed a lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the United States Supreme Court. The four states exploited 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. The battleground states flooded their people with unlawful ballot applications and ballots while ignoring statutory requirements as to how they were received, evaluated and counted."
So we should not let pass the fact that Paxton may well become a plaintiff and a defendant simultaneously. From Governing.com:
Paxton faces three counts: two for securities fraud, and another for acting as an investment advisor or representative without registering. The indictments were unsealed Monday.
They allege that Paxton offered to sell two people more than $100,000 worth of stock in a McKinney technology company, but didn’t disclose that the company was compensating him. Paxton also didn’t make clear that he hadn’t personally invested in the company, the indictments allege. He received 100,000 shares, but that was in the form of compensation, according to the indictment.
So this (alleged) stockjobber is now peddling perhaps the most ridiculous bag of hot air yet dispatched into the country's legal system.
Paxton and Texas are suing, for example, Wisconsin, and its Republican state legislature, for adapting its election laws to the context of the pandemic. This, of course, is none of Texas's damn business. In the actual filing, the description of the "injury" done to Texas by its fellow states is so laughably sparse that it consists of barely a single paragraph.
Also, if your argument is based on the Constitution's mandate that states control their own elections, it is not helpful to argue that you were injured by the exercise of that control. This isn't a lawsuit. It's rube bait that should be subject to the fraud statutes, with which Ken Paxton is undoubtedly familiar.
Later in the filing, Paxton and Texas go long on every bit of "evidence" over which state and federal judges have consistently become nauseous for a month.
The rampant lawlessness arising out of Defendant States’ unconstitutional acts is described in a number of currently pending lawsuits in Defendant States or in public view including...
Videos of: poll workers erupting in cheers as poll challengers are removed from vote counting centers; poll watchers being blocked from entering vote counting centers—despite even having a court order to enter; suitcases full of ballots being pulled out from underneath tables after poll watchers were told to leave.
Facts for which no independently verified reasonable explanation yet exists: On October 1, 2020, in Pennsylvania a laptop and several USB drives, used to program Pennsylvania’s Dominion voting machines, were mysteriously stolen from a warehouse in Philadelphia...
In Michigan, which also employed the same Dominion voting system, on November 4, 2020, Michigan election officials have admitted that a purported “glitch” caused 6,000 votes for President Trump to be wrongly switched to Democrat Candidate Biden. ... A flash drive containing tens of thousands of votes was left unattended in the Milwaukee tabulations center in the early morning hours of Nov. 4, 2020, without anyone aware it was not in a proper chain of custody.
I'm surprised that there aren't videos from OAN attached as exhibits.
Moreover, Paxton has aimed this flaming zeppelin straight at the Supreme Court. I would not be surprised if various rube state officials join in this fantastical exercise, the way that so many states joined Texas' attempt to kill the Affordable Care Act.
But unless someone somewhere arranges that Chief Justice John Roberts be kidnapped by Somali pirates, it is almost impossible to imagine that the Supreme Court would get anywhere near this toxic waste. Emphasis, as always, on "almost."
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