thirdcoast said:
schmendeler said:
embarrassing for our state.
Please stop complaining and leave Texas for a liberal utopia like Portland.
The bill of complaint actually is embarrassing because it is way more PR stunt than anything substantive. It's essentially an amalgamation of already raised (and rejected) claims, which is one reason it is extremely unlikely the court will grant the motion for leave.
Even granting the legitimacy of certain arguments, such as the electors clause arguments, the actual pleading is written more like a press release than a legitimate legal filing, as it includes scores of outlandish, nonsensical, and frankly irrelevant assertions and "statistical" arguments.
It is somewhat hard to imagine a case in which a state brings legitimate elections claims against another state, although probably not impossible. However, this is not one of those examples.
And as someone else mentioned, it is probably very telling that Kyle Hawkins is not on the pleading.