Is This Really “The Big One”?

That’s what Trump’s calling the election lawsuit Texas is trying to get the Supreme Court to hear. And he’s itching to join in.

Eric J Scholl
5 min readDec 10, 2020

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That suit: “Texas v. Pennsylvania, et al.”, seeks to overturn votes in 4 states where Joe Biden has already been certified the winner: Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

The reason? They say Texans were harmed by those states’ electoral votes not going to their preferred candidate, Trump. And that harm was caused by those states not having sufficiently strict voting rules to prevent that from happening. Like the ones they had in Texas, where they did virtually nothing to make it easier for people to vote in the face of COVID-19, and fought real hard to block virtually any proposals that would’ve made voting during a pandemic easier. As we said yesterday, their suit doubles as a brag.

And Texas is not even alleging fraud, just “irregularities”. Not fraud, rather not having enough “safeguards against fraud.” So just really that those other states let COVID-19 make them get too soft.

Now of course, any rule changes for the 2020 Election due to COVID-19 or not, were put into place well before Election Day, and there was plenty of time to litigate all that stuff, and many states — especially Texas —…

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Eric J Scholl

Peabody award winning journalist. Streaming media pioneer. Played @ CBGB back in the day. Editor-In-Chief "The Chaos Report" www.thechaosreport.com