"Numquam Concedere": Never Concede. Trump-created coat-of-arms, 2012.
U.S. Supreme Court throws out Texas lawsuit contesting 2020 election results in four battleground states
The lawsuit challenged election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. The high court said Texas did not have standing to bring the case.
Briskly rejecting a long-shot but high-stakes case, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday tossed out the Texas lawsuit that had become a vehicle for Republicans across the country to contest President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
In a few brief sentences, the high court said it would not consider the case for procedural reasons, because Texas lacked standing to bring it.
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The lawsuit quickly grew into a dividing line for blue and red states across the country — and, for Republicans, a test of loyalty to Trump.
That is all that this suit was about. Seventeen other states and Individual One joined Texas in this suit.
R's and B's these are not legal motions. Oh, they're styled as legal motions, "Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al," they have the form of legal motions but there is no legal substance to them, no factual allegations, no precedent to rely on. The most fundamental a priori requirement to bring a lawsuit of any kind is that the plaintiff must have "standing, you have to be an aggrieved party to ask for relief from your aggrievement. Jones cannot sue Brown for punching Smith in the nose. It is this prima facie insufficiency that is the reason courts have "briskly" and frequently in aggrieved language summarily reject these lawsuits. There is in fact law against filing frivolous, bad-faith lawsuits. It is abuse of the court system and the lawyers can be disciplined! I am on record writing that we should not begrudge Individual One his attempts to overturn a freely and fairly conducted election in the courts. In my insouciance I assumed good faith. I have been slapped out of my insouciance. Individual One and his "elite strike force" have lost every lawsuit they have filed, thirty or forty of them. Many, like this one, lacked even the legal basics. They will tweet or hold pressers outside porno shops and crematoria crying "FRAUD!" but when they get inside the four corners of a courtroom they do not dare for fear of being held in direct contempt for lying to judges. That is bad faith. It must be stopped. I have been waiting for the day when a court rejects the latest suit and sanctions the attorneys. This bullshit has to stop.
(ORDER LIST: 592 U.S.)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020
ORDER IN PENDING CASE
155, ORIG. TEXAS V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.
The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of
complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of
the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially
cognizable interest in the manner in which another State
conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed
as moot.
Statement of Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins:
In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a
bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original
jurisdiction. See Arizona v. California, 589 U. S. ___
(Feb. 24, 2020) (Thomas, J., dissenting). I would therefore
grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not
grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.
