As Reuters reporter Brian Heath quotes from the GOP House members’ amici brief–and please remember what’s written below is a verbatim transcript from the brief:

But now, in the election of 2020, the principal enunciated by the Texas Supreme Court in Ramsey v. Dunlop in 1947 is threatened, not by ill-defined precinct lines in Texas, but by credible allegations of cabal and oligarchy in the four Defendant states which threaten the operation and integrity of the nationwide Republican Form of Government.

Specifically, Texas has alleged, and we the undersigned amici will join, in charging that “[a]n elite group of sitting Democrat officers in each of the Defendant States coordinated with the Democrat party” to subvert the Presidential Election of 2020 so as to deprive the majority of states of their lawful electoral power.

Let’s delve into this a little, shall we?

• The word they’re looking for in the first sentence is “principle,” not the homonym “principal,” which means the person who leads a school or money invested.  On *principle* alone, this case should be thrown out for sheer stupidity.
• The inconsistency in capitalizing the word “state”–which should have a capital “S” to designate the 50 constituent members of the United States in this legal document–means someone didn’t proofread.
• “…Republican Form of Government.”  In this case, the capital “R” in “Republican” means the signatories are worried that the Republican Party will lose power; it does not refer to our republican (lower case “r”) form of government.
• “…with the Democrat party”.  Of course, we know the proper noun is the Democratic Party.  This is the petty Republicans’ way of trying to irk Democrats, but it just illustrates how poorly Republicans understand grammar:  they don’t know the difference between nouns, proper nouns and adjectives.
• “…so as to deprive the majority of states….”  Donald Trump won the plurality of votes in 25 states.  Out of 50 states, 25 is NOT a majority.  It’s half.  And by the way, President-elect Joe Biden won 25 states AND the District of Columbia, thereby winning the *majority* of jurisdictions issuing electors to the Electoral College.