Republicans have previously been criticized for filing pointless lawsuits that are based on dubious claims in a bid to make a political point and grab attention. Living up to this reputation, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a desperate lawsuit over President Donald Trump's loss.

Paxton filed a petition on Monday, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to effectively reverse the results of the presidential election in four other states. He claims that election officials in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania altered voting laws due to the coronavirus pandemic.

He also argues that Texas voters were harmed by the aforesaid states' violations of equal-protection laws. If Paxton's accounting is anything to go by, states should be allowed to interfere with their opponent's election procedures. According to Telegram, this is an argument that should be completely rejected by the court.

Moreover, it cuts against the states’ rights arguments Texas has made for several decades about election laws. If Paxton were to win, imagine the AG of California showing eagerness to changing Texas’ voter ID requirements. Texas has no standing to sue over some other state’s election laws.

According to Paxton, the states immersed the citizens with unlawful ballot applications and ballots and did not pay heed to statutory requirements, such as how they were counted, evaluated, and received. In the lawsuit, Paxton notes that the trust of the citizens and integrity of the recently concluded election was compromised due to the violation of the statutes by the states.

It is worth mentioning here that multiple sources, including Attorney General William Barr, have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the election. This last-minute by Paxton comes alongside multiple similar attempts by President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the election results have been rejected by courts in several states citing lack of evidence.

There is no evidence to back claims made by Trump and his allies, who believe the election was rigged and Democrats stole the election from the president. Barr has previously said Biden won in all four key states where Paxton is challenging the results.

Officials in Georgia, the state where Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recertified Biden's victory after a recount on Monday, quickly dismissed Paxton's allegations. Aside from them, leaders in the other three states named in the lawsuit have dismissed these allegations.

Georgia's deputy secretary of state, Jordan Fuchs, called the allegations in the lawsuit irresponsible and false. He noted that although Texas claims there are 80,000 forged signatures on absentee ballots in Georgia, they failed to bring even a single person forward to who this happened to because it did not happen.