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Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by stjohnswarts on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:37PM (#25368946)
If you knew anything about Ken Paxton you wouldn't doubt the person before yours comment. He is very likely guilty of several crimes and generally unliked in Texas. It is not unlikely that he is doing this in exchange for a pardon from Trump on the last day (week?) of Trump's tenure as Prez along with 100s more no doubt. This suit will go no where because no one has presented any evidence of widespread fraud or that states were outside their rights as to how they conduct their elections. It's a joke like Paxton.
Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by gwright on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:59PM (#25376408)
You are right that I don't know the motivations of Ken Paxton, but aren't there 18 other states joining in the lawsuit?

In any case you can't dismiss a lawsuit "because no one has presented any evidence". That is part of a lawsuit itself. Perhaps the evidence will be determined to be insufficient but that will be determined within the proceeding itself.

Now if you want to say that the claims presented in this particular motion is unconvincing, that would make logical sense. But any rationale for dismissing the motion has to be based on what is in the motion, not on what is floating around in social media.

Re:Elon Musk moves to Texas by dragonwriter on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:02PM (#25393476)
> but aren’t there 18 other states joining in the lawsuit?

No, six attempted to do so (since the suit was never permitted to be filed, no one actually joined it.)

18 states (including the six that shortly after that filed to join the suit as party intervenors) filed a request to file a pro-plaintiff amicus brief, which is different than joining the suit.