Trump Wanted The Justice Department To Copy Texas's Failed Election Case But Add More Conspiracy...

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In late December, Trump pressed DOJ to copy Texas's failed election challenge in the US Supreme Court nearly word for word — and lean in even more to voting fraud conspiracy theories (spoiler: it didn't happen)

Trump Wanted The Justice Department To Copy Texas's Failed Election Case But Add More Conspiracy...
House Democrats released documents on Tuesday about efforts by Trump and White House officials to get the Justice Department to wade into postelection fights.
buzzfeednews.com
6:12 PM · Jun 15, 2021

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-doj-planned-election-lawsuit-copied-texas

WASHINGTON — Former president Donald Trump pushed the Justice Department last year to bring an election challenge in the US Supreme Court that largely copied Texas’s failed case word for word while amping up the conspiracy theories.

House Democrats on Tuesday released a cache of emails and other documents revealing how senior Trump administration officials urged DOJ to intervene in postelection legal fights on Trump’s behalf. The collection included a draft lawsuit that Trump wanted the Justice Department to file in the Supreme Court challenging President Joe Biden’s wins in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin.

The department did not bring the case, and Trump’s private efforts to contest the election results were rejected at every level of the legal system, including before the Supreme Court. The Wall Street Journal first reported in January on Trump’s push to get DOJ to take his fight to the justices, but the draft released by the House Oversight Committee hadn’t been public before.

A side-by-side review shows that Trump’s proposed complaint would have simply reargued Texas’s unsuccessful one, while also adding language that leaned into false and debunked conspiracy theories that Trump and his allies were touting at the time about compromised voting technology. Texas filed its complaint on Dec. 7; the Supreme Court tossed it out less than a week later, finding Texas lacked standing to sue other states over how they managed voting.

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1. As usual, Texas blazes the treason trail and lights it with arrogance and stupidity.