Trump, a Texas lawsuit, and democracy’s future

By Henry Gass December 11, 2020 Articles

President Donald Trump’s continued false insistence that he is the rightful winner of the 2020 election is culminating six weeks after Election Day with a widespread Republican embrace of an audacious legal effort to invalidate the votes of entire states and mandate a Trump victory – an attempt which, if successful, would inflict grievous damage on American democracy itself.

The mere fact that the attorneys general of Texas and 17 other GOP-led states, a majority of House Republicans, and the president have signed on to such a lawsuit calls into question the Republican Party’s very commitment to democratic principles, say critics of the effort, filed by the state of Texas directly to the Supreme Court.

Republicans may feel free to get behind the suit due in part to its inherent legal weakness – many experts believe the case will be quickly dismissed. But even if that occurs…

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