Texas AG Sues Biden Over Possible Ineligible Voters

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been a thorn in the Biden administration’s side from the moment Biden took his oath of office.

When Paxton was facing impeachment, the flurry of cases stopped, but now that he has been cleared, he is going full steam ahead again.

To that point, Paxton is now suing the Biden administration over alleged ineligible voters not being cleared from voter rolls.

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According to the filing, Texas has requested information of some 450,000 voters to verify citizenship.

Paxton claims that his “valid requests” are "for the citizenship status of the over 450,000 people on Texas’s voter rolls for whom the State cannot verify their citizenship status using existing sources."

Since these individuals did not use a Texas state ID or a Texas driver’s license to register, "those voters never had their citizenship verified."

Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson penned a letter to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou on September 18, along with a list of individuals it needed to verify for the election.

Another letter was sent by Paxton on October 7, stating, "Although I have no doubt the vast majority of the voters on the list are citizens who are eligible to vote, I am equally certain that Texans have no way of knowing whether or not any of the voters on the list are noncitizens who are ineligible to vote."

Jaddou responded three days later, in part, writing, "Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program is the most secure and efficient way to reliably verify an individual’s citizenship or immigration status, including for verification regarding voter registration and/or voter list maintenance," and maintained that USCIS "currently cannot offer an alternative process to any state."

Paxton claims pointing his Secretary of State to the SAVE program does not fulfill the state’s request for information.

When the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Jaddou’s department, was asked for comment, it again pointed to the SAVE program.

Paxton’s cases have largely depended on the judge assigned to them. When he gets a conservative judge, the case is always heard but not always won.

When he goes before a liberal judge, the case is usually tossed out of court before it can ever get any legs, and I suspect that will be the case here.

If Paxton gets a liberal judge, my guess is they will paint Texas as being lazy for not doing its own legwork for the SAVE program.