Pennsylvania Rep. Fred Keller said the lawsuit filed by Texas challenging the election results in four states including his own is to make sure at the very minimum that state executive branch officials don’t arbitrarily change voting rules in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Keller, 55, who in November won a second term to represent the north and central counties encompassed in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, is one of 126 House Republicans who have signed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the Texas lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court. Seventeen additional states also have filed amicus briefs.
''I don’t look at it as throwing anybody’s vote out,'' Keller said Friday on Newsmax TV’s ''American Agenda'' in response to the argument that several states opposing the lawsuit say it invalidates the votes of citizens in their states. ''I look at it as following the Constitution. The votes in the other states aren’t the ones that we’re saying are affected. We’re saying, 'Take a look at what happened in Pennsylvania.'''
The lawsuit filed Tuesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims officials in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia used fears of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a justification to disregard election laws, which the Constitution grants only to the various state legislatures.
''And if we don’t want this to happen again, we need to make sure that the court is clear on this, so we don’t have governors, and other bureaucrats, making up rules going forward in future elections. That should not happen. And that’s really what we’re looking here at in this case. Have the Supreme Court tell us how that law should be applied. Because if we don’t clear it up now, it potentially could continue to happen.''
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