Tom Tiffany among 106 House Republicans backing Texas lawsuit to overturn election

U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany joined the legal push Thursday to overturn the presidential election.

Tiffany, a Republican who represents the 7th Congressional District in northern Wisconsin, was among 106 House Republicans to sign on to a brief that supports the State of Texas in its bid to overturn election results in four battleground states that backed Democrat Joe Biden — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Tiffany, who was reelected in November, was the lone Republican from Wisconsin's House delegation to support the effort.

The brief presented the concern of the members of Congress, "shared by untold millions of their constituents, that the unconstitutional irregularities involved in the 2020 presidential election cast doubt upon its outcome and the integrity of the American system of elections."

Texas is suing the four battleground states in the U.S. Supreme Court and is seeking to delay certification of electors in those states.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is under a federal bribery investigation, filed the suit that alleges the four states "exploited" the coronavirus pandemic to ignore election rules, which affected the outcome of the Nov. 3 election.

Paxton targeted Wisconsin's use of drop boxes, rules for voters who claim to be indefinitely confined and clerks filling in missing information for witnesses on absentee ballots. 

Courts in Wisconsin and across the country have delivered Trump and his allies setback after setback as they have sought to change the results. 

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul called the lawsuit "meritless."

"I feel sorry for Texans that their tax dollars are being wasted on such a genuinely embarrassing lawsuit," Kaul, a Democrat, said in a statement after Paxton announced the lawsuit. "Texas is as likely to change the outcome of the Ice Bowl as it is to overturn the will of Wisconsin voters in the 2020 presidential election."

University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck called the lawsuit "a dangerous, offensive, and wasteful" stunt. 

"It looks like we have a new leader in the 'craziest lawsuit filed to purportedly challenge the election' category," he tweeted, predicting the Supreme Court would "never" take up the case.