106 House Republicans Back Texas Election Lawsuit in Supreme Court
A group of over 100 House Republicans is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a lawsuit challenging 2020 election results filed earlier this week by the state of Texas.
The 106 lawmakers asked the nation’s top court on Thursday for permission to file a friend-of-the-court brief that asks the justices to uphold the power of state legislatures to establish how presidential electors are appointed and to determine the constitutionality of ballots cast and counted under election rules established by non-legislative officials.
“In the months before the 2020 election, those rules were deliberately changed by both state and non-state actors,” the lawmakers wrote in their brief (pdf).
More than 100 U.S. House Republicans are backing President Donald Trump s last-ditch effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to override election results in four key swing states that went for Democrat
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Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., shown speaking on the House floor in December 2019, said this week “I have no idea who my legislative affairs liaison was” during the Trump administration (Photo from House Television via AP)AP
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By Niels Lesniewski and Jessica Wehrman, CQ-Roll Call
WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team are making collaboration between the executive branch and Congress a priority, with early and extensive outreach to the legislative branch.
The Biden transition team has already reached out to more than 300 members of the House and almost everyone in the Senate, according to a transition official. The objective will be to reach every one of the 535 lawmakers before Inauguration Day.
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