Seventeen states are now urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the Texas lawsuit challenging election results in four battleground states.
The states filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Wednesday, Dec. 9, led by Missouri’s Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
This level of support adds extra weight to the case—underscoring it’s of great public importance and needs of the attention of the nation’s top court.
Texas wants to sue Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The suit says that these states unconstitutionally changed election laws, treated voters unequally, and triggered significant voting irregularities by relaxing ballot integrity measures.
The 17 states say when election officials changed election rules, they may have been using powers only meant for lawmakers as per the Electors Clause in the U.S. Constitution.
The states supporting the Texas suit all have Republican attorneys general.
Arizona, followed the move Wednesday, pledging support to Texas in its own way.
Arizona’s Attorney General Mark Brnovich is asking the top court if he can file his own brief supporting the Lone Star state.
Meanwhile, President Trump is hoping to join the Texas lawsuit.
His lawyer said the president is intervening in the case in a personal capacity as a candidate for reelection.
The Texas case itself has not been officially accepted for review.
The Supreme Court ordered the defendant states to respond by 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 10.
