By Zachary Stieber The state of Texas argued in a filing to the Supreme Court on Friday that the four states it is suing didn’t address “grave issues,” instead “choosing to hide behind other court venues and decisions.” Texas sued Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin in the nation’s top court this week, alleging that the states unconstitutionally changed election laws, treated voters unequally, […]
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Pennsylvania House Leaders File Brief to Support Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania
By Jack Phillips Pennsylvania’s House speaker and majority leader on Thursday filed an amici curiae brief with the Supreme Court against the state of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas’s lawsuit against the commonwealth and three other states. A brief (pdf) filed by Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, both Republicans, requests that the Supreme Court “carefully consider the procedural […]
6 States Ask Supreme Court to Join Texas Election Lawsuit
By Ivan Pentchoukov The states of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah on Dec. 10 asked the Supreme Court to let them intervene in an election lawsuit filed earlier in the week by the state of Texas. In a brief motion to intervene filed on Thursday, the six states outlined the reasons they […]
‘Bought by Beijing’: Pompeo Warns of China’s Threats to US Colleges
By Cathy He American colleges are becoming “hooked on Chinese Communist Party cash,” while Beijing works to siphon cutting-edge U.S. research to China, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Dec. 9. “So many of our colleges are bought by Beijing,” Pompeo said during a speech at the Georgia Institute of Technology, outlining Beijing’s aggressive efforts targeting […]
Infographic: What Happened in Atlanta on Election Night
By Petr Svab On the night of Nov. 3, tens of thousands of absentee ballots for Fulton County, Georgia, were counted at the State Farm Arena’s vote-tabulation center in Atlanta. In recent days, the fog of incomplete and conflicting information provided by interested parties has begun to clear. It now appears that a state election monitor was absent for a […]
Case for President Trump Invoking Insurrection Act to Restore Election Integrity
By Stephen B. Meister Commentary During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the Tenth Congress enacted the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was then signed by Jefferson into law, to foil the plot of Revolutionary War hero Aaron Burr—following the destruction of his political career after he shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—to raise […]
17 States Urge Supreme Court to Review Texas Bid to Challenge Election in Battleground States
By Janita Kan Seventeen states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Texas’s request to challenge the 2020 election results in four battleground states. The states, led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Dec. 9 underscoring that the case filed by Texas is of great public importance and requires the attention of […]
Overwhelming Evidence of Outcome-Altering Voting Irregularities
By Patrick Basham Commentary Voter fraud has a long history in U.S. elections. Since the nation’s independence, there have been 1,302 proven cases, resulting in 1,125 criminal convictions. This year’s election is likely to add to those tallies. There’s overwhelming evidence that outcome-altering irregularities occurred on and around Election Day. The Trump legal team has already submitted […]
This Election Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test
By Michael Walsh Commentary Let’s start with this inconvenient and overriding truth about the 2020 election: there is no such thing as a Joe Biden fan. Nobody actually likes Joe Biden, nobody admires him, nobody looks up to him. He’s no one’s idea of role model or an aspiration. Throughout his nearly 50-year career as […]
Trump on Election Battles: Legislators, Judges Need ‘Courage’ to Do What’s Right
By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump on Tuesday wondered if lawmakers or judges have the courage to help him challenge election results in key battleground states. “Let’s see whether or not somebody has the courage—whether it’s a legislator or legislatures, or whether it’s a justice of the Supreme Court or a number of justices of the Supreme Court. […]
Number of Congress Members Planning to Challenge Election Results Expected to Grow
By Zachary Stieber Trio working to convince senators to join them. The number of members of Congress who will commit to challenging the results of the Nov. 3 election during the upcoming joint session is expected to grow. “There’s three of us that have publicly said that we will refuse to certify Electoral College votes […]
Trump Says He Will Intervene in Texas’ SCOTUS Election Case
By Tom Ozimek President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he and/or members of his legal team would join, as intervenors, the lawsuit brought by Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to the U.S. Supreme Court against four battleground states. “We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a […]