On Tuesday, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced that his state will be joining Texas’ lawsuit against Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin apparently because – much like his wacky next-door neighbor Attorney General Ken Paxton – he doesn’t like that more people in those states voted for Joe Biden than voted for Donald Trump. The announcement is the standard legal-ish sounding MAGA bullshit, but it’s the end that sticks out.
“Louisiana citizens are damaged if elections in other states were conducted outside the confines of the Constitution while we obeyed the rules“, which is kind of funny considering that if the Republican Party really thought that any one state’s laws were unconstitutional prior to the election – and actually unconstitutional, as in something the Supreme Court was likely to take up – we sure as hell would’ve known about it.
It sounds to me really like Landry just isn’t all that happy with the current system, in which he, as a devoted fan of the Orange Pharaoh, had to see his Lord and Savior lose because of some technical changes to voting procedures in other states. Like his vote somehow didn’t count because of adjustments that juiced turnout in far-flung jurisdictions that he has no power over. As if a framework that worked to his guy’s advantage last time ended up screwing him this time. Almost a form of karmic justice being visited upon him and his party.
Louisiana obeyed their rules. Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania obeyed marginally different rules that were their own. I seriously doubt Landry and Paxton would be open to federalizing the presidential election, taking away the structural advantages they enjoy by having Republican authorities control most jurisdictions in their states. They don’t have a better solution because they liked this one until they didn’t.
Landry and Paxton can go fuck themselves. So can their voters. People who would support these two whiners deserve the repeated gut punches they’ve been getting these days. That they won’t learn a lesson and do some collective soul-searching afterward doesn’t mean it isn’t fun to watch.