Eight Red States Join Texas Supreme Court Suit, But no Tennessee?

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Eight Red States Join Texas
Supreme Court Suit,
But no Tennessee?







By
Roger L. Simon



Tennessee Republican voters are certain to remember this
cowardice among some of their leadership.

As of Dec. 8, 2020, eight other red states—Arkansas,
Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
South Carolina and South Dakota, but not Tennessee—have
joined the Texas lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin for exploiting the pandemic
to change election laws to allow the permeable mail-in
voting with almost no safeguards.

What the four swing states did, Texas Republican Attorney
General Kim Paxton asserts, was illegal because, according
to the U.S. Constitution, election laws can only be changed
by state legislatures. The four states altered the rules by
various forms of executive fiat.

When one state sues another, or, in this case, four others,
the suit automatically goes straight to the Supreme Court.

The Court has given these states until Thursday the 10th
to respond and explain why they were able to supersede
the constitution.

As Trump lawyer Jordan Sekulow stated on Newsmax’s
“Stinchfield” Tuesday night, this is the “be all and end all case”
of election 2020, more important than the failed Pennsylvania
suit, because it encompasses all four states at once.

It also contains the possibility for “relief” in which SCOTUS
decides legislatures can choose new electors—or starts a
process that throws the election to the House of Representatives,
where the GOP has an advantage.

MIA (missing in action) in all this is Tennessee—ironic because
Sekulow is himself a resident of the state that, in recent years,
has been one of the most reliably conservative with some
61 percent of voters choosing Trump in 2020.

Who is to blame here?  Certainly not Senator Marsha Blackburn,
one of the most staunch of the president’s supporters in Congress,
or newly-elected Senator Bill Hagerty, until recently Trump’s
ambassador to Japan.

No, the equivocators are obviously Republican Governor Bill Lee
and Attorney General Herbert Slattery, both of whom have
been laggards on multiple occasions when it comes to sticking
up for their citizens and delivering—in Governor Lee’s case— on
their campaign promises.  Tennessee is unique in that their
attorney general is appointed by their Supreme Court.

These two represent a kind of old school Republican that is,
whether they know it or not, going the way of the dinosaur
no matter whether Trump wins or loses 
(in Lee’s case again, likely via primary). Theirs is a wishy-washy
Republicanism that prefers a form of presumed decorum to victory.

Like political Willy Lomans from Arthur Miller’s
“Death of a Salesman,” they only want to be “well liked”
(by their cronies).

This is especially dangerous—not only to their party, but
to the republic—given the current militant “take no prisoners”
of the increasingly leftward Democratic Party and their media allies.

All this is taking place in an atmosphere of false deadlines. 
Everything is supposed to be decided in a week, but the
constitution itself only gives one specific date, Jan. 20,
when a new president must be inaugurated.  The rest
are either arbitrary or by traditions that can be easily
adjusted if necessary.

With so many accusations of electoral malfeasance, big
and small, domestic and foreign, being looked at—or, in
many cases, deliberately ignored, much like the three
Japanese monkeys who see, hear and speak no evil—it
behooves our country to slow down and examine what
actually happened in presidential election 2020 and
whether the results are what they should be.

If we find out afterwards that those results, whether Trump
or Biden wins, turn out to be the opposite of what was
initially assumed and acted upon, we will have a national
disaster on our hands.

Not to pick on Messrs. Lee and Slattery because they
are simply exemplars of a common phenomenon, that
they are not interested in pursuing the answers to
these questions in open court—or have made premature
conclusions—is disgraceful and cowardly.

They still have a chance to change their minds and we
can hope that they will do so.

As many states as possible should join this suit.  Kansas,
where are you?  Idaho? Wyoming? Montana? West Virginia?
Oklahoma? Iowa?

This lawsuit, when it plays out in front of the Supreme Court
in the coming days, must be conducted with the utmost
thoroughness and transparency.

Get it wrong and the United States of America
may not have a second chance.




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Roger L. Simon is an award-winning novelist,
Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of
PJMedia, and now, editor-at-large for
The Epoch Times.
His most recent books are “The GOAT” (fiction)
and “I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is
Destroying Our Republic, If It Hasn’t Already” (nonfiction).
Find him on Parler @rogerlsimon.

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