Seventeen states have filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court in support of the lawsuit brought by the State of Texas to overturn the election results in key battleground states that lame duck president Donald Trump lost in the November election, according to Reuters reporter Brian Heath.
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia filed to support the efforts of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to disenfranchise voters from four states: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Paxton seeks to negate the votes of 10 million voters in those states so that Trump will be handed the Electoral College votes from those states.
Legal experts largely dismiss Paxton’s lawsuit as frivolous and meaningless, particularly given the Constitutional authority of each state to manage its own elections.