Sekulow Counsel Opines on Texas SCOTUS Case: ‘Non-Legislative Actors Effectively Amended State Election Law’

Today’s Jay Sekulow Live was titled ‘ANY MOMENT: SCOTUS Action on Texas Case’. Texas filed its response to the defendant states’ filings. The next step should come from the Supreme Court itself.

Commentator Harry Hutchinson senior counsel for ACLJ clears up the main argument of the Texas lawsuit. “So the core deficiency attacked by Texas against the defendant states is that Non-Legislative actors effectively amended state law state election law. What does that mean? It means that there were votes cast and counted which were not appropriate in that sense they were illegal votes. And so at the ACLJ we have consistently maintained that every legal vote should count, and I think it is clear beyond question if you look at state after state if you look at Georgia if you look at Pennsylvania if you look at Michigan and Wisconsin Non-legislative actors intervened without the permission or the ratification of the state legislative branch”

"So the core deficiency attacked by Texas against the defendant states is that Non-Legislative actors effectively amended state law state election law. What does that mean? It means that there were votes cast and counted which were not appropriate… pic.twitter.com/ZTPFtHkpTf

— Media Right News (@MediaRightNews1) December 11, 2020

…if you look at Michigan and Wisconsin Non legislative actors intervened without the permission or the ratification of the state legislative branch."
– Harry G. Hutchison, Senior Counsel and Director of Policy for the ACLJ

— Media Right News (@MediaRightNews1) December 11, 2020

According to Sekulow Live, this is the actual argument made by the Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton. Attorney General of Pennsylvania Josh Shapiro has made the claim publicly that the Lawsuit is only because Texas is unhappy with the results of the presidential election. Shapiro took to CNN to stating, “this suit that was filed by my colleague from Texas is uniquely unserious. It is based on bizarro conspiracy theories. It is based on issues that have been litigated and dismissed.” Shapiro also called the lawsuit a “seditious misuse of the judicial process” in a tweet below.

"This suit that was filed by my colleague from Texas is uniquely unserious. It is based on bizarro conspiracy theories. It is based on issues that have been litigated and dismissed."

Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro reacts to a lawsuit in Texas aimed at overturning the election. pic.twitter.com/Lj1o17KTVN

— CNN (@CNN) December 10, 2020

Texas’s effort to get this Court to pick the next President has no basis in law or fact. The Court should not abide this seditious misuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated. pic.twitter.com/4gQmojQ98R

— AG Josh Shapiro (@PAAttorneyGen) December 10, 2020

In the same episode of Jay Sekulow Live, the commentators discuss what would happen if Texas won this lawsuit at the Supreme Court. A win will not overturn the elections, effectively the electoral college votes would be taken back for the state legislature to decide how they should be allocated, which could change the projected outcome.

We all wait now for the next step to come from the Supreme Court which could happen at any time.

The Video below is the entire episode of Jay Sekulow Live.