Trump has been searching for some AG to be crazy enough to do his bidding. I mean republican control GA and the governor and sec of state stood their ground. This guy Paxton is insane enough to take this on. I’m wondering if FL will join in.
You would need to check with @Safiel, I’m not sure but I don’t see why they would be required to hear a frivolous case. The fancy Latin terms might be different for original jurisdiction v. appellate jurisdiction, but I would think that SCOTUS would have the power to dismiss a case because various reasons, such as lack of standing, timeliness of the filing, lack of evidence, etc.
IMHO, while Texas can file under original jurisdiction to the SCOTUS their case falls flat for two reasons:
A. They have no standing to challenge the internal laws of another state that has no impact on Texas.
B. The second is timelines of the filing. These emergency adaptions were made MONTHS ago, we’ll before the General Election and in some cases before the Primaries. Not a peep out of Texas in all that time, but now that Trump clearly lost and lost in a big way, NOW they want to raise an issue? Sorry, you had your chance and waited until your guy lost. Suck it up buttercup.