REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR STAY AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAY In the Supreme Court of the United States STATE OF TEXAS, Plaintiff, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, STATE OF GEORGIA, STATE OF MICHIGAN, AND STATE OF WISCONSIN, Defendants.

 

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No. 22O155, Original 

In the Supreme Court of the United States 

STATE OF TEXAS, Plaintiff, 

v. 

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, STATE OF GEORGIA, STATE OF MICHIGAN, AND STATE OF WISCONSIN, Defendants. 

REPLY IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR STAY AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAY

Ken Paxton* 

Attorney General of Texas 

Brent Webster 

First Assistant Attorney General of Texas 

Lawrence Joseph Special Counsel to the Attorney General of Texas 

Office of the Attorney General 

P.O. Box 12548 (MC 059) 

Austin, TX 78711-2548 

kenneth.paxton@oag.texas.gov 

(512) 936-1414 

* Counsel of Record 

 REPLY IN SUPPORT OF INTERIM RELIEF 

 ARGUMENT 

 I. TEXAS IS LIKELY TO PREVAIL. 

A. Defendant States violated the Electors Clause by modifying their legislatures’ election laws through non-legislative action. 

B. State and local administrator’s systemic failure to follow State election law qualifies as an unlawful amendment of State law. 

C. Defendant States’ invocation of other litigation does not affect this action, either substantively or jurisdictionally. 

D. Texas has standing to sue. 

E. Neither laches nor mootness bar injunctive relief.  

II. THE OTHER WINTER-HOLLINGSWORTH FACTORS WARRANT INTERIM RELIEF. 

A. Plaintiff State will suffer irreparable harm if the Defendant States’ unconstitutional presidential electors vote in the Electoral College. 

B. The balance of equities tips to the Plaintiff State. 

C. The public interest favors interim relief. 

CONCLUSION 

The motion for interim relief enjoining Defendant States from certifying Presidential Electors and from having such electors vote in the electoral college until further order of this Court should be granted. Alternatively, this Court should summarily vacate Defendant States’ certification of presidential electors and remand to Defendant States’ legislatures pursuant to 3 U.S.C. § 2 and the Electors Clause. 

December 11, 2020