Supreme Court rejects Texas and Trump's bid to overturn 2020 election
Anderson Cooper 360
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🗓️ 12 December 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, good evening. |
| 0:01.6 | Thanks for joining us, the outgoing president of the United States called on the Supreme |
| 0:04.5 | Court to show courage, but he was actually begging it for help over turning the will of |
| 0:08.8 | voters by overturning the election that he so clearly lost. |
| 0:12.1 | Well, late today, he got his answer from the Supreme Court. |
| 0:15.6 | No. |
| 0:16.6 | The court rejecting an ill-conceived lawsuit by the state of Texas and stunningly joined |
| 0:20.9 | by 126 House Republicans to overturn all the votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, |
| 0:26.3 | and Georgia. |
| 0:27.3 | Here's the ruling. |
| 0:28.6 | The executive Texas's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack |
| 0:33.0 | of standing under Article 3 of the Constitution. |
| 0:36.2 | Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which America, another |
| 0:41.4 | state, conducts its elections. |
| 0:43.5 | All other pending motions are dismissed as moot. |
| 0:46.6 | Now just as Alito, with Justice Thomas joining, added this, quote, in my view, we do not have |
| 0:51.4 | discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in the case that falls within our |
| 0:55.8 | original jurisdiction. |
| 0:57.4 | I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint, but would not grant |
| 1:01.3 | to other relief when I express no view on any other issue. |
| 1:05.5 | And so ends the last major legal challenge to the president's election defeat, a defeat |
| 1:09.8 | which is by his own calculation of his victory in 2016, a landslide loss. |
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