Trump wants former rival Ted Cruz to argue lawsuit seeking to overturn the election in front of the Supreme Court
DONALD Trump wants his former rival, Senator Ted Cruz, to argue a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results – in front of the Supreme Court.
The suit was filed in Texas by Attorney General Ken Paxton, who sued , , , and after multiple other lawsuits filed by 's legal team were denied by judges.
reported on Wednesday that Trump asked Cruz if he would "make oral arguments in the case"; if it reached the highest court in the – and Cruz agreed.
Cruz is a seasoned attorney having argued before the Supreme Court nine times before joining the in 2013.
In many of those cases, he represented the Lone Star State in his role as ' solicitor general.
The said these "friend of the court" briefs are often filed in appellate cases – applications for decisions to be reversed – heard by the Supreme Court and other courts.
"And there is considerable evidence that amicus briefs have influence," the association noted, reported .
The Supreme Court ordered the defendant states to reply by 3pm on Thursday after Trump repeatedly touted the case on Twitter and reportedly enlisted Cruz privately to help.
Attorneys General in the four states that are being sued have clapped back at the claims with Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul tweeting that he "feel[s] sorry for Texans."
"That their tax dollars are being wasted on such a genuinely embarrassing lawsuit," he wrote.
"Texas is as likely to change the outcome of the Ice Bowl as it is to overturn the will of Wisconsin voters in the 2020 presidential election."
Likewise, Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro described the situation as "sad" in a lively interview with MSNBC today, where he slammed the fact that attorneys general in other states had backed the lawsuit.
"Some of these attorneys general I have worked with," he raged. "Like the Facebook lawsuit that we filed today.
"We've worked constructively in the past. I don't know whether to call a surgeon to try and repair the spines of some of these individuals or a psychiatrist to examine their heads.
"But something's wrong: they are afraid of something and it is up to us to continue to speak truth and it is up to the courts to continue to do what they've been doing which is to follow the law."
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Trump tweeted yesterday morning insisting the lawsuit would be successful after multiple other cases alleging election fraud were ousted from courts and by judges in numerous states.
“We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case,” Trump wrote. “This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!”