What an embarrassment. The good lawyers in that office deserve better. https://twitter.com/TNattygen/status/1336767184467529730

By signing on to this brazen, lawless attempt to steal an election, Slattery has demonstrated that the way we pick AGs in this state needs to change.

It's one thing for voters to select a partisan hack, quite another for that pick to come from the TN Supreme Court Justices.

Let’s look at a few concepts the amici endorse:

1. States have standing to sue one another over how they each individually conduct their Presidential elections.

What does this mean? Well, by the same theory, California could sue Tennessee in the Supreme Court and allege that its ID card requirements are unconstitutional.

This sort of litigation would be absurd. But that’s what the GOP AGs are left to argue.

2. States have standing (according to these amici) to assert the interests of their own citizens in not having their vote diluted by allegedly illegal actions in another state.

If that were true, DC could sue Alabama over its decision to close early voting locations in predominately minority areas.

Quite the approach these “conservative” states-rights lawyers are taking.

3. Finally, states have an interest in fighting fraudulent elections in any other state.

Woo-boy, this opens some cans of worms. (On the fraud point, the GOP AGs use as examples — without irony — a number of cases of voter fraud perpetrated by Republicans.)

And these are just some of the positions in the amicus brief.

The Complaint field by Texas and its under-federal-investigation AG is about as thoughtful and meritorious as a pro se brief from a sovereign citizen fighting a traffic ticket.