In addition to the original filing by the State of Texas, these are some of the other filings in that case of 'original jurisdiction" now before the U.S. Supreme Court:
A motion by President Donald Trump to intervene as an additional plaintiff, because his rights were negatively impacted by the unconstitutional acts of the defendants;
An amici curiae (“friends of the court”) brief in support of Texas’s case by the state of Missouri, on its own behalf, and also on behalf of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia”;
An amici curiae brief filed by Carter Phillips and other “Never Trump” Republican opponents of the president, supporting Pennsylvania and the other defendant states;
An amici curiae brief filed by Roy Moore and other “constitutional attorneys” in support of the case brought by Texas;
An amicus curiae brief filed by Arizona, urging the Court to act expeditiously;
Responses to the Texas filing by each of the defendant states, as requested by the Supreme Court;
An amici curiae brief filed by the District of Columbia and “States and territories of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington” in support of Pennsylvania and the other defendant states;
A motion by Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah to intervene as plaintiffs;
Two amicus curiae motions by members of the Pennsylvania house and senate, respectively, urging the Supreme Court to take up and hear the case brought by Texas;
An amicus curiae motion by the Christian Family Coalition in support of the Texas case;
An amici curiae brief by the speaker and majority leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in support of the Texas case;
A motion by “state legislators and voters” represented by the Justice Foundation and the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, seeking to intervene and join the case as plaintiffs; and their proposed complaint was also filed;
An amici curiae brief by 105 Republican members of the House of Representatives in support of the Texas case;
An amici curiae brief by elected officials from four states, individually in support of the Texas case;
An amicus curiae brief by the City of Detroit in support of Pennsylvania and the other defendants; and
An amicus curiae brief by the Justice and Freedom Fund in support of the case brought by the plaintiff Texas
The number of filings in just three days — including from Democrat leaning states and various groups on the left — for a case that the U.S. Supreme Court has not yet said that it will take up and hear --- might increase the chances that it will do so. If so, there will be even more filings, or applications >>> to be sure.....
