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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

Texas Sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin at Supreme Court over Election Rules!

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The State of Texas filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court shortly before midnight on Monday challenging the election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the grounds that they violate the Constitution

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is significant what just happened with Texas suing Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin at the Supreme Court over these election rules.

0:11.7

This isn't just people now fighting back. This is an entire state fighting back against governments that are not doing things the right way.

0:20.8

Now let me broaden this out so you understand why Texas is doing this specifically.

0:25.9

What they are saying to the Supreme Court directly now is we have a problem with these other states and the rules that they broke have their elections which makes our vote much less insignificant because of their decision to not follow and this is their argument, the constitution.

0:48.4

And it changed their elections without having actual, the actual legislative bodies do it in the name of COVID-19.

0:59.4

You very well could have changed the outcome of the free and fair election and the way the elections are supposed to be done in America, which means you are disenfranchising the voters of Texas and the will of the American people nationwide.

1:12.4

I would not be surprised if other states follow suit. I think Texas and what they did here is honestly pretty brilliant. Now this may not have an impact on Biden becoming the president may not.

1:27.4

What this will have an impact on is precedent moving forward, which is the reason why this court case and this battle is so valuable.

1:35.4

Now the state of Texas filing this lawsuit, they also did it directly with the US Supreme Court right before midnight, challenging the election process in these states.

1:48.4

The grounds for the lawsuit very simple. They are accusing Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin of violating the constitution.

1:58.4

Texas is arguing that these states violated the electors clause of the constitution because they made changes to voting roles and procedures through the courts and through executive action, but not through the state legislators, which is exactly how it's supposed to be done.

2:20.4

That's part one of the lawsuit. Let me break that down. What they're saying in layman's terms is you guys violated the United States Constitution because you did not actually allow for the people that are elected to be involved in changing of these rules.

2:38.4

You didn't have votes on changing these procedures. You had non-elected individuals and executive orders, which the constitution they're arguing does not allow an exemption for for a national emergency or anything else.

2:53.4

The legislature is the one that is supposed to do this. This is not supposed to be people that are not elected. In other words, the people in Georgia and Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, that changed how our elections are done in this presidential election in their states.

3:07.4

Did not have the power and or the authority to do this. Therefore, they violated the constitution.

3:14.4

That is part one of Texas's argument. Part two of Texas's argument is this. They argue that there were differences in voting rules and procedures in different counties within states.

3:33.4

It's a huge problem with the Constitution. I'll say it again. Texas's second point is you not only did you guys screw up these elections in your state by not having the legislature actually make the decisions on the changes you were going to be making, which is a violation of the United States Constitution.

3:53.4

Violates the literal electoral clause of the Constitution. But within your states, you guys screwed up again because you had different rules for voting in different counties, which they're arguing means you're disenfranchising.

4:11.4

If violates, they said the Constitution's equal protection clause, meaning that you protected votes in some ways, right, in some areas, and you did not protect people whose votes in other ways. That's a problem.

4:29.4

When you have county over that's doing an election totally different than the next county that's next to them, it's a problem. You're supposed to have consistency and continuity.

4:43.4

Consistency and continuity. That's what you're supposed to have in an election process statewide.

4:52.4

Should not be different in one county compared to the next and the next and the next because what you're doing is there's some people that were eligible to vote basically their argument is in one county that would be ineligible to vote in another.

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