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11 Dec 2020, 1:53 pm by Schachtman
He treated the four states, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, as independent tests, which of course they are not. [read post]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint with the Supreme Court Tuesday against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, seeking to overturn their 2020 presidential election results. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 9:37 am by Jonathan H. Adler
On the law, the Texas reply essentially argues that the handful of attorneys in the Texas AG's office who were willing to sign on to the brief know more about the election laws of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania than do the Attorneys General and Secretaries of State of those various states. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
Whether enforcement of Interpretative Statement 2018-1, as modified by this opinion and order, would interfere with plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights to the free exercise of religion has not been sufficiently briefed to resolve at this juncture.At issue in the case According to the Detroit News, Michigan's attorney general plans to support the Civil Rights Commission's full interpretation in an appeal. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 2:00 am
There is a very good summary of the complaint's allegations of what went wrong in each swing state's voting procedures in this post, so I will not repeat them here.Reduced to its essentials, the proposed complaint says that each swing state (Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) allowed persons other than that state's legislature to alter, before the 2020 election, the previously legislated procedures for choosing the presidential… [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Barr Taps Durham as Special Counsel, Pushing Probe into Biden Era Politico – Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein | Published: 12/1/2020 Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. attorney John Durham as a special counsel to investigate the origins of the FBI’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 5:50 pm by Howard Bashman
“In Blistering Retort, 4 Battleground States Tell Texas to Butt Out of Election; The attorneys general of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia asked the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Texas seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victories”: Adam Liptak and Jeremy W. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 2:28 pm by Amy Howe
The four states were represented by their attorneys general and other state officials, but Georgia was also represented by several private lawyers, including a former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas and Joseph Hunt, who served as the assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice during the Trump administration. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 1:28 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
Pennsylvania, the audacious effort by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to prevent Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin from selecting presidential electors based upon the results of the November election. [read post]
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called the suit “a publicity stunt, not a serious legal pleading. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 3:41 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
The first brief supporting Texas to be filed came from 17 state attorneys general, led by Eric Schmitt of Missouri. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 3:38 pm by Amy Howe
Trump’s request to join the case followed a “friend of the court” brief in support of Texas that was filed by Missouri and 16 other states with Republican attorneys general. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 11:32 am by Ilya Somin
Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is far from the only poseur who might relish an opportunity to excite his base with a legally dubious high-profile case, if he or she could be assured of getting it into the nation's highest court. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 11:04 am by Richard Reibstein Esq.
  The plaintiffs alleged that under the Fair Labor Standards Act as well as New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada state wage and hour laws, the NFL misclassified the security representatives as independent contractors. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 6:54 am by David Post
Attorney General Paxton, though, is another story; his use of Ciccetti's analysis is mendacious and misleading and, I believe, unethical. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 6:15 am by Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck
Join for spirited but respectful debate between Professors Chesney and Vladeck as they discuss: The legal basis for a possible presidential action to compel Pfizer to bump the United States ahead of other countries when it comes to accessing vaccine doses beyond the 100 million covered in the current contract Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to get the Supreme Court to adjudicate a claim by Texas that the election results in Georgia, Wisconsin,… [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 10:20 am by Amy Howe
” Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (R), who was recently named the new chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, also brushed off the lawsuit. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 8:42 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
The chance that I will take anything Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Special Counsel Lawrence Joseph, and Assistant Attorney Brent Webster say seriously after this. [read post]