24 states file brief against Texas lawsuit

 Among those 24 states, Illinois.

Via Legal Insurrection:

In the substance of the Brief, first there are the procedural arguments:

PA argues that SCOTUS should not exercise its discretion to accept “original jurisdiction” because core interests of Texas are not at issue, unlike a border or waterway dispute. Rather, the argument goes, Texas is seeking to protect the asserted rights of its citizens, and if SCOTUS expands its jurisdiction in that way, it will open the floodgates to making the rare exercise of SCOTUS original jurisdiction into a trial court for disputes between citizens of states, rather than states themselves.

Next, PA argues that Texas has no standing, because it has suffered no injury in fact; the way in which other states interpret their own laws and own constitutions is not a protected Texas interest. The personal interests of Texas citizens cannot be sued upon by the State of Texas.

PA - Pennsylvania is one of those states cited in the original brief that Texas had filed for the S.C.O.T.U.S. Either they reject this lawsuit and there's hardly anything else to be done at this point and likely Biden will definitely be sworn in as President in January. Or we might have ourselves another Bush v. Gore from 2000. Time will tell.