TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The State of Florida has signed on to a lawsuit that would invalidate millions of votes in four states that voted for President-Elect Joe Biden.
President Trump’s legal team and allies have lost 55 court cases since the election.
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Statement on Florida joining amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to consider Texas’s motion. pic.twitter.com/ZINNdo9Ifb
— AG Ashley Moody (@AGAshleyMoody) December 9, 2020
Long after states have finished counting, re-counting, and certifying their election results, Texas is suing to stop four states- Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin- from participating in the election, and now, Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody wants to help in that effort.
When asked what Florida and Texas could be seeking- with election results already certified in all 50-states- Reginald Mitchell of Florida A&M University’s College of Law says it’s a final “Hail Mary.”
“They’re basically saying, despite the safe harbor deadline, the eighth was the day that the U.S. Supreme Court said all court cases are supposed to be done with,” Mitchell says.
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Wisconsin and Georgia even did re-counts, but now Florida and Texas Attorneys General say they don’t like how those four states carried out their election, and who won, so they’re trying to sue. “...Without a whole lot of evidence, and it just seems to be absurd on its face,” Mitchell adds.
There it is.
— Rep. Ted Deutch (@RepTedDeutch) December 9, 2020
There is no limit to what Ron DeSantis and Ashley Moody are willing to do to please Donald Trump.
Even wasting taxpayer dollars and state resources on a fool’s errand to overturn our election. https://t.co/dUQUJmd8po
For example, the motion filed by Texas and signed on-to by Florida, cites problems with Dominion, a company that provides voting systems.
However, the suit fails to mention that President Trump won some states that use Dominion voting systems, including Florida.
In fact, Trump won 16 of the 18 Florida counties that use them.
When asked why Florida is involved at all, Mitchell suggests it’s simply a case of partisan politics.
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“Florida has a Republican leader...Florida has a Republican Attorney General.”
So far, the U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled on the motion from Texas. Late Thursday afternoon, more than 100 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives signed on to the Texas lawsuit, including eight from Florida.
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