TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 9, 2020

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery is supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to overturn the election results in four states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden, the Nashville Post reports. Yesterday, Paxton asked the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate election results in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan. Today, Slatery signed on to an amicus brief supporting the challenge. In a statement, Slatery said he joined the suit to support “separation-of-powers principles” and his office’s position that only a state legislature has the authority to make and change election laws. A spokesperson for Republican Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said that Paxton was “constitutionally, legally and factually wrong about Georgia.”