U.S. Representatives Doug Lamborn and Ken Buck stood in for Colorado in the recent challenge from Texas to invalidate votes from four battleground states and attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The U.S. Supreme Court – including all three of President Trump’s picks in its 9-0 decision – on Friday rejected hearing the lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, explaining that Texas lacked the legal right to throw out votes in other states. The suit included support from 126 Republican House members, 19 Republican state attorneys and apparently two new states, according to filings with the court.
Continuing to claim that the election was thrown to Biden by widespread fraud, President Trump had hailed the lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan as the lynchpin that would have given him another four years in office. The suit was based on fraud claims that lower courts had uniformly dismissed several times, citing lack of legal basis.
The Electoral College votes virtually on Monday, Dec. 14 to formally elect Joe Biden as president.
Lamborn, of Colorado Springs, represents Colorado’s Fifth District including Chaffee County. Buck hails from Windsor, representing the Fourth District. Texas supplied the largest House contingent with 14 congressional representatives signing on, while Florida had the second highest number at 11.
Democrats have widely assailed the lawsuit as a means to subvert the will of electorate, and 23 Democratic attorneys general filed a brief opposing the suit. Gov. Steve Bullock (D-Mont.) brought up the fact that Texas failed to sue Montana, which similarly used mail-in ballots and where Trump received nearly 57 percent of the vote.
Meanwhile, House Democrat Bill Pascrell of New Jersey urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to refuse to seat the 126 congressional representatives who signed the amicus brief. Seventy Republicans did not sign the brief.
The court’s decision is likely the end of Trump’s legal fight for the election, although it is likely not the end of the overall battle stemming from the 2020 election. His personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, said on Friday that he would press on.
On another note, Robert Thomas III of Pahrump, Nevada, filed his own amicus brief in which he claimed to be the attorney for the states of New Nevada and New California, the formation of which were allegedly necessary to combat “arbitrary and capricious” election laws in the existing Nevada and California. Click here to read the brief.
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