The 38 electors in Texas cast their votes for President Donald Trump on Monday as states across the country fulfilled the constitutional duty to formally elect the next president of the United States.
Then, they asked the electors of four states who voted for Democrat Joe Biden to switch their votes.
Biden was officially elected as the next president Monday, garnering 306 votes in the Electoral College to Trump's 232, but Trump has been fighting an uphill battle to overturn the vote ever since. That has included a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that was rejected last week by the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to have those state's results looked at over fraud allegations.
The court rejected the case, saying Texas had no standing to interfere in another state's election process.
The Texas electors Monday wrote to the legislatures of the states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, asking them to appoint their own electors, The Texas Tribune reported.
All four states already had cast their electoral votes by the time the electors had drafted their resolution, and it has no legal weight.
The resolution also "condemn[ed] the lack of action by the U.S. Supreme Court" to overturn the election, but after brief debate, language was removed denouncing the justices for "moral cowardice."
An elector said such language would make Texas look "childish, impertinent and angry."
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