The Long-Shot Texas Suit Trump Is Hailing as the ‘Big One’

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Ken Paxton in Dallas in June.Photographer: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
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Texas is trying to take the U.S. Supreme Court where it’s never gone before with a lawsuit that seeks to win a second term for President Donald Trump by overturning the election results in four other states carried by Joe Biden.

A case filed directly in the Supreme Court this week by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton contending that state officials in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin unconstitutionally expanded mail-in voting has been hailed as game-changer by the president, who tweeted on Wednesday that it was “the big one” that “everyone has been waiting for.”