Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is tired.<\/p>\n
For the last month, she and her team have\u00a0fended off a litany\u00a0of\u00a0legal filings\u00a0by\u00a0President Donald Trump and his allies that allege fraud, despite providing no\u00a0evidence of widespread misconduct.<\/p>\n
On Friday,\u00a0the U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0ruled against a Texas-led effort attempting to overturn election results in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia. President-elect Joe Biden won each state, receiving\u00a0more than enough votes to win the presidency.<\/p>\n
Although\u00a0results clearly show Biden won the presidential election, Trump and his team have vowed their fight is not over.<\/p>\n
In a phone\u00a0interview Saturday, Nessel discussed the Supreme Court’s ruling, other legal cases from the Trump campaign and their allies, and the impact of these efforts on democracy. The interviewed was edited for length.<\/p>\n
Free Press:\u00a0<\/strong>In reading the order from the court last night, the court stated that the motion is “denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution.” What does that mean?<\/p>\n Nessel:\u00a0<\/strong>Essentially, that there was no injury suffered to the state of Texas on account of anything that we did here in the state of Michigan. They had no standing to actually make these complaints in the first place, in a court of original jurisdiction. And original jurisdiction, you know, all the case law indicates it should be used sparingly. The cases are few and far between where you have a state sue another state, and they can begin that case, or it\u2019s filed, in the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, there have been times where I\u2019ve considered suing the state of Ohio over some pollutants in Lake Erie because it effects our residents and our drinking water in Michigan. But, I probably would start \u2014 if I ever was ever going to do something like that\u00a0\u2014\u00a0I would start in a federal court, most likely a District court, and not in the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n