Michigan AG says Texas ‘has no standing to disenfranchise’ millions of voters

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) blasted a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the presidential election in four states, calling it “outrageous.”

Nessel called the lawsuit “really one of the more outrageous that we’ve ever seen in the United States,” adding “Texas has no standing to disenfranchise the 5.5 million voters in the state of Michigan … there’s been no injury that’s been demonstrated to the state of Texas.”

She noted that the results of the election in Michigan have already been certified, that challenges to the result have repeatedly lost in court and that “Texas has failed to identify a single voter who voted in Michigan who should not have.”

“It’s outrageous that they filed this and the fact that they would try to disenfranchise the 39 million people that live in these four states,” Nessel told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “It’s really disturbing.” The lawsuit seeks to invalidate the results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin.

Nessel took aim at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the other state attorneys general who have signed onto the lawsuit, saying that as attorney general, “I took an oath to uphold the Michigan constitution and the United States constitution to the best of my ability, so help me God.”

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel rebukes Texas’ lawsuit to invalidate millions of votes.

“It’s outrageous that they filed this and the fact that they would try to disenfranchise the 39 million people that live in these four states. It’s really disturbing.” pic.twitter.com/QeFmQ8a496

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“I don’t know what they did in these other states, I don’t know what their oath was to, I don’t know if they swore to uphold the tiny, fragile ego of a man who cares about nothing but himself, but they sold their souls and I hope it was worth it to them,” she added.

In the lawsuit, Paxton claims the four states in question, all of which President-elect Joe Biden won, unconstitutionally altered their voting procedures. More than 100 GOP members of Congress filed briefs in support of the lawsuit Thursday, several of whom represent states whose votes the lawsuit seeks to invalidate.