Crook files dumbest election lawsuit in known human history

Serial criminal Ken Paxton has somehow outdone the Rudy’s Trike Force:

I may need to take back what I said about Rep. Kelly’s PA suit being the dumbest case I’ve ever seen filed on an emergency basis at the Supreme Court.

This new one from the indicted Texas AG Ken Paxton (but missing the name of Texas’s Solicitor General, who surely would not sign this garbage) probably should win that prize.

Steve Vladeck canvasses the reasons why the Court won’t touch the case (including its rules on taking cases directly under its original jurisdiction).

My view in brief: this is a press release masquerading as a lawsuit. Texas doesn’t have standing to raise these claims as it has no say over how other states choose electors; it could raise these issues in other cases and does not need to go straight to the Supreme Court; it waited too late to sue; the remedy Texas suggests of disenfranchising tens of millions of voters after the fact is unconstitutional; there’s no reason to believe the voting conducted in any of the states was done unconstitutionally; it’t too late for the Supreme Court to grant a remedy even if the claims were meritorious (they are not).

It’s almost impossible to describe how stupid the arguments in this thing are:

Here, the "expert" tests the "hypothesis that the performance of the two Democratic candidates were statistically similar" and reports his results pic.twitter.com/xCPVZeIRvq— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) December 8, 2020

We know the election was fraudulent…because Joe Biden got more votes than Hillary Clinton. That’s the argument. Over to you, General:

I feel sorry for Texans that their tax dollars are being wasted on such a genuinely embarrassing lawsuit. Texas is as likely to change the outcome of the Ice Bowl as it is to overturn the will of Wisconsin voters in the 2020 presidential election.— Attorney General Josh Kaul (@WisDOJ) December 8, 2020