States take Texas to task over 'baseless' election lawsuit | First Thing

Republican and Democratic attorneys general of four US states urged the supreme court to reject a lawsuit from Texas aiming to overturn the election result. Plus, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Time's person of the year

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Republican and Democratic attorneys general in the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have urged the US supreme court to reject a lawsuit filed by Texas that aims to overturn Joe Biden's election victory. Pennsylvania's Democratic attorney general, Josh Shapiro, said the lawsuit contained a mass of baseless claims" that had already been widely rejected by the courts, and said it was adding to a cacophony of " about the election. But the lawsuit still has some support; more than 100 Republican members of the House filed an amicus brief with the court in support of the Texas lawsuit on Thursday.