Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody is supporting Texas in its lawsuit filed with the Supreme Court, which aims to block four battleground states that certified Democrat Joe Biden as their election winner from voting in the Electoral College until the court hears arguments in the case.
"The integrity and resolution of the 2020 election is of paramount importance," wrote Moody on Wednesday, CBS Miami reports. "The United States Supreme Court should weigh the legal arguments of the Texas motion and all pending matters so that Americans can be assured the election was fairly reviewed and decided."
In joining a friend-of-the-court brief backing Texas, Florida accompanies Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
The Texas lawsuit, filed by the state's Attorney General Ken Paxton, claims Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin "exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election."
Governor Ron DeSantis and other Florida Republicans have supported moves to contest election results in key states. Moody previously added Florida to a brief that hoped to get the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that let some late-arriving absentee ballots be counted in Pennsylvania, according to CBS Miami.
But Democrats in the state, including Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, slammed Moody's actions. "It's embarrassing to the integrity of our democracy and resolution of this election," Fried, who serves in the state Cabinet, said.
Paxton has claimed his lawsuit is a bid to protect election integrity. "If other states don't follow the Constitution and if their state legislature isn't responsible for overseeing their elections ... it affects my state," he said Tuesday.