An arm of the national public interest law firm, the Thomas More Society, filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit brought before the U.S. Supreme Court by the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to halt presidential electors in four battleground states.
The motion by the Amistad Project argues that state legislatures failed to uphold their constitutional duty to certify their election results, unlawfully empowering the same election officials who violated duly enacted laws by granting private actors unprecedented power and influence over the conduct of the recent elections.
The Texas action filed on Dec. 8 argues that electors from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia - all states that Democrat Joe Biden won narrowly - should not cast their votes because the states unconstitutionally changed their voting processes to allow for mail-in voting.
Amistad Director Phill Kline said that in addition to ignoring ballot security laws such as signature and residency requirements, local election officials effectively created a two-tiered election system.
The officials accepted millions of dollars from a leftist group, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL), claiming that the funds were necessary to ensure safe and secure elections. But CTCL’s money trail, $350 million of which was donated by Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, favored Biden over President Donald Trump, the Capital Research Center has found.
"Privatizing the 2020 election not only violated the law, it undermined election integrity and unconstitutionally usurped legislative authority resulting in an election in which the American people cannot have faith," Kline said in a statement announcing the filing of the motion. "The Amistad Project is pleased the states joining the litigation have come together in an effort to reveal and challenge the results of the 2020 election."
The Electoral College is scheduled to cast its votes on Monday.