...aaaand I just noticed this was Texas judges. Not the federal one where it was also filed.
Hearing on the Federal case is at 10:30 AM tomorrow. I'm not expecting much to come of it.
The court should toss it out as being filed too late, just like the Texas Supreme Court did with the latest filing. They have been fighting this for weeks through the Texas courts. They are only now bringing it to the Federal court when they didn't get the decision they wanted, a mere days before the election and after the county proceeded with the election in accordance with the court's rulings. If they wished to challenge this in Federal court, they previously had ample opportunity to do so.
But they got a Republican biased judge, so who knows.
Even if the court rules to invalidate the votes, it will almost certainly go to appeal. That very likely won't be concluded until after the votes are counted. At that point it would probably be meaningless.
Two of the plaintiffs are candidates in the county. One is running for U.S. House and has no chance. The other is running for judge and lost two years ago by more than 100,000 votes, so the votes in question may not matter.
Another plaintiff is a voter claiming standing based on his vote being invalidated by voter fraud. But they would have to prove that voter fraud actually occurred as a direct result of the drive-through voting, which seems unlikely.
The last plaintiff is a current member of the Texas House and claims standing based on the right of the legislature to establish election laws. That seems questionable, but I'm not sure.
Of course it isn't really about the rights of the legislature. It's about the Presidential election. If Biden wins Texas it is going to be a landslide. So this lawsuit is probably going to be inconsequential to the results of the election anyway.
