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  • more than 100 Republicans in the U.

  • S House of Representatives on Thursday officially signed on to a brief backing President Donald Trump's long shot lawsuit filed by Texas at the Supreme Court seeking to undo President elect Joe Biden's victory.

  • The Texas lawsuit, which asks that the voting results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin be thrown out, was slammed Thursday by the attorneys general from those states, each filing their own response to the lawsuit.

  • The attorney general from Michigan said the lawsuit was quote without factual foundation or a valid legal basis.

  • Wisconsin's Egg said quote there has been no indication of any fraud in Georgia's filing.

  • Republican Attorney General Chris Carr said the claims in the case were quote impossible to ground, illegal principles and unmanageable.

  • Pennsylvania's Democratic attorney general Josh Shapiro, was perhaps most critical of the lawsuit, saying it was adding toe a quote cacophony of bogus claims.

  • Adding the cascading Siris of compounding defects in Texas is filings is Onley underscored by the surreal alternate reality that those filings attempt to construct the court should not abide the seditious abuse of the judicial process and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated.

  • Legal experts have said the Texas lawsuit has little chance of succeeding at the Supreme Court.

  • Says Reuters legal correspondent Yang Wolf.

  • Every legal expert I talked to about this case says that it is frivolous.

  • It has no chance of succeeding.

  • Texas has no legal standing to say that the results in four other states should be thrown out.

  • That's just not how our constitutional system works.

  • It is, by all accounts, a political stunt.

  • This is part of a larger legal campaign to just cast a cloud of doubt over Biden's victory.

  • Keep the Republican base riled up and fundraise.

  • The Texas lawsuit does not make specific fraud allegations.

  • Instead, it says, changes to voting procedures removed protections against fraud and were unlawful.

  • Trump on Thursday met with the man who filed the lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with other Republican state attorneys general who support his cause.

  • President Trump has turned this lawsuit into a loyalty test, perhaps a final loyalty test, And so you have 106 uh, Republican members of the House, signing on to this effort and endorsing what Trump is trying to do more than half of the Republicans in the House of Representatives.

  • But one Republican state Attorney general, Dave Yost of Ohio, filed a separate brief on Thursday disagreeing with the Texas lawsuit, saying that it quote would undermine a foundational premise of our federalist system, the idea that the states are sovereigns free to govern themselves.

more than 100 Republicans in the U.

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