I’m sure that most of you know that the state of Texas filled a suit at the Supreme Court against Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin alleging that they unconstitutionally changed voting laws and should be thrown out.

First, the Supreme Court is normally an appellate court and only deals with cases that have been litigated in lower courts. However, again I am sure you heard today, the Court has what’s called original jurisdiction in a few specific areas — one of those is in which one state is suing one or more other states.

The one point I wanted to make is that all the talk today is about the strength of Texas claims that the votes in those states were unconstitutional. And I agree that those states conducted illegal elections and Texas should win. The point I wanted to discuss is that that alone is not enough for the Court to take the case. Texas has to show that it or its citizens were adversely affected by the actions of the other states. For instance, Texas can’t sue North Carolina because they think our crazy governor imposed unconstitutional whu flu restrictions in the state.

Texas is rightfully alleging that by their unconstitutional actions they have effectively disenfranchised the citizens of Texas because this is a national election and only legitimate voting should be allowed or the votes of Texans are diminished.