Help a non-American: so this is a soft coup via lawsuits and also a soft civial war also being fought by lawsuits?
Also why is any of this even possible? How can one state even sue another never mind sue it for not voting the same way it did?
Can't lie, the US constitution and govermental system looks like a shambles right now.
What I dilike the most is it feels like far too much is being normalised here: this should be eliciting huge public pushback and should see the bad faith actors getting heavily censured and penalised but there's no sign of that at all it seems. I appreciate Covid is probably impacting things too but I can't shake feeling it's actually not by much.
Or am I just missing nuance here?
First of all: It's a not a civil war at all.
Secondly, the Constitution explicitly allows states to sue one another. That's one of the main reasons the Supreme Court was set up, to settle legal disputes between states.
Thirdly, technically this isn't about the candidate it voted for, but rather the manner of the voting process.
Fourthly, most people are expecting SCOTUS to throw the suit out saying that Texas lacks standing, which more or less means that states can't sue over this shit, but they still have to let the process of soliciting briefs and responses work itself out.
Fifthly, so far everything is technically working as intended. Republicans are probing some of the darkest corners of our electoral process, but the fabric is holding. They have yet to technically achieve anything beyond create doubt in the populace.