Moody and 16 other Republican attorneys general asked the court to let them file briefs in support of Paxton’s case against counting Joe Biden’s electoral votes from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. They have sowed our democracy with seeds of distrust to be exploited by Trump or another would-be tyrant.Īs the next election nears, it bears remembering who has facilitated the Big Lie.
Almost everywhere they are in control, Republican politicians have acted out the Big Lie to make voting more difficult for minorities, subvert the ways votes are counted, and create a pretext for overturning elections they lose. Most Americans don’t believe him, but more than two-thirds of Republicans do, polls show. Not since the slave states tried to destroy the Union has there been such damage to national unity as Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election by claiming it was stolen from him.
Moody tried to sell the Big Lie, too, so the Paxton case reflects on her. The Texas Bar has taken steps to discipline Paxton for his fraudulent attempt to sell Donald Trump’s Big Lie to the Supreme Court, and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody should be watching very closely. The eyes of Texas’ legal establishment are on its disgraced attorney general, Ken Paxton.
