Seventeen Republican States Join Texas In 'Long-Shot' Bid To Overturn US Election

Texas has launched a 'long-shot' legal challenge in the Supreme Court in a bid to overturn the US election.

The Republican state believes the votes from four states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin, should be invalidated and election officials should declare Donald Trump as the winner.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading the lawsuit and claims the four jurisdictions changed their voting rules to allow people to cast their ballot easier and said these changes were unconstitutional.

Paxton has argued in a lawsuit in the Supreme Court that the voting rule alterations 'opened the door to election irregularities in various forms'.

His legal challenge has now been supported by 17 other Republican state attorney generals.

The attorney generals of Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia, and Arizona have all filed an 'amicus brief respecting' Texas' complaint.

An amicus brief is defined as 'a person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action, may petition the court for permission to file a brief, ostensibly on behalf of a party but actually to suggest a rationale consistent with its own views'.

Donald Trump has publicly supported the push on Twitter, saying: "The case that everyone has been waiting for is the State's case with Texas and numerous others joining. It is very strong, ALL CRITERIA MET. How can you have a presidency when a vast majority think the election was RIGGED?"

He has filed a motion to join the case and hopes it will be able to investigate votes for Joe Biden and ultimately give Trump the presidency.

According to Forbes, the lawsuit is based on fraud allegations which have been repeatedly rejected by lower courts and has been called 'laughable', 'utter garbage', 'legally incoherent', 'factually untethered' and 'based on theories of remedy that fundamentally misunderstand the electoral process' by law experts.

The Supreme Court yesterday rejected a lawsuit that tried to get rid of 2.5 million votes in Pennsylvania.

The legal challenge was launched by US congressman Mike Kelly, who tried to argue that the mail-in ballots were illegal under state law, which was changed in 2019.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter: "This election is over. We must continue to stop this circus of 'lawsuits' and move forward."

Joe Biden has already been declared the winner of the 2020 US Election after he won 306 electoral college votes, far more than the 270 needed to take over the White House. By comparison, Donald Trump received 232 votes.

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