Arkansas AG supports Texas lawsuit challenging election results in battleground states

by Associated Press and KATV

Wed, December 9th 2020, 5:04 PM UTC

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. She's supporting a Texas lawsuit challenging 2020 presidential election results in battleground states. (Photo: KATV)

CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 19: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge waves to the crowd before delivering a speech on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 19: Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge delivers a speach on the second day of the Republican National Convention on July 19, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge. She's supporting a Texas lawsuit challenging 2020 presidential election results in battleground states. (Photo: KATV)

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Tuesday announced her support for a Texas lawsuit challenging election results in battleground states.

The suit from the Texas attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, demands that the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin be invalidated. If those votes were set aside, it would swing the election from President-elect Joe Biden to President Donald Trump.

Paxton's suit repeats a litany of false, disproven and unsupported allegations about mail-in ballots and voting in the four states.

Rutledge, a Republican who is running for Arkansas governor in 2022, said in a written statement: “Arkansans and Americans across the country have real concerns about the lack of integrity in our federal elections this year. After reviewing the motion filed by Texas in the U.S. Supreme Court, I have determined that I will support the motion by the State of Texas in all legally appropriate manners. The integrity of our elections is a critical part of our nation and it must be upheld.”

Trump said Wednesday that his campaign will join the case before the Supreme Court. The high court has asked for responses by Thursday.

Legal experts dismissed the filing as the latest and perhaps longest legal shot since Election Day, and officials in the four states sharply criticized Paxton.

“I feel sorry for Texans that their tax dollars are being wasted on such a genuinely embarrassing lawsuit,” Wisconsin's attorney general, Josh Kaul, said.

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