The mainstream media believe that the Texas lawsuit is just the last-ditch effort of a plot doomed from the start by the Trump team to remain in the White House for another 4 years.
President Trump, of course, has never given up his belief that he actually won the 2020 election, when the votes were recounted multiple times and no evidence of widespread fraud was found.
And while his legal team has been getting their butts kicked in local and state courts, the White House wants to believe that a major lawsuit out of Texas could be the answer to their prayers.
And there are still a fair number of congressional Republicans who agree.
A Republican congressional ally of President Trump solicited more than 100 of his fellow GOP lawmakers to sign on to a brief with the Supreme Court in support of a long-shot lawsuit filed by Texas seeking to delay certification of presidential electors in four battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden.
Congressman Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, circulated an email, obtained by CBS News, from his personal account to GOP members Wednesday that asked them to join a friend-of-the-court brief to be filed in support of the effort spearheaded by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Johnson was a vocal defender of Mr. Trump during impeachment proceedings.
“The simple objective of our brief is to affirm for the court (and our constituents back home) our serious concerns with the integrity of our election system,” Johnson wrote. “We are not seeking to independently litigate the particular allegations of fraud in our brief (this is not our place as amici). We will merely state our belief that the broad scope of the various allegations and irregularities in the subject states merits careful, timely review by the Supreme Court.”
The Texas suit seeks to overturn the election by casting doubt on the legitimacy of the electoral procedure in four of the key battleground states. The President and his allies believe that the Supreme Court is their only hope to alter the outcome of the contest…but it’s a longshot.
