Trump Vows to Intervene in Texas Election Bid at Supreme Court

Donald Trump said his campaign would try to join a last-ditch bid by Texas’s Republican attorney general to challenge the president’s defeat in four swing states at the U.S. Supreme Court, a case ridiculed by state officials and legal experts as a publicity stunt. “This is the big one” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. He also said that his campaign hadn’t been part of a separate ca

“This is the big one” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. He also said that his campaign hadn’t been part of a separate case, brought by a Pennsylvania congressman, that the Supreme Court rebuffed on Tuesday -- the first time the high court has weighed in on Republican litigation to try to overturn the election outcome. “This was not my case as has been so incorrectly reported,” Trump wrote in a sec

“This was not my case as has been so incorrectly reported,” Trump wrote in a second tweet on Wednesday, without citing examples of inaccurate news reports. In a one-sentence order, the court said Tuesday that it would not grant a request from plaintiffs including Representative Mike Kelly to void Pennsylvania’s election results.

The Texas suit, brought by the state’s scandal-plagued attorney general, Ken Paxton, seeks to prevent electors from Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania from participating in the Electoral College on Dec. 14.

Paxton’s case repeats allegations about mail-in voting that have already been roundly rejected in dozens of courts across the nation, and legal experts say it has no chance of being heard by the Supreme Court. Top officials in the states he seeks to sue mocked the suit on Tuesday.

“The erosion of confidence in our democratic system isn’t attributable to the good people of Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia or Pennsylvania but rather to partisan officials, like Mr. Paxton, who place loyalty to a person over loyalty to their country,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement.