On Wednesday, 17 other states joined in to share their support for Texas’s lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in an attempt to overturn former Vice-President Joe Biden’s electoral win.

The states that joined in the Supreme Court case include South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Utah, and West Virginia.

According to the lawsuit, the state of Texas argued that the four key battleground states had violated the constitution. The state claimed that the changes in their voting rules were done through an executive order and not through the legislature, a clear violation of the Constitutional provision.

Moreover, Texas also noted that there were differences in the voting rules within the county, which violated how ballots should have been handled and received. The state added that the changes that were made are under the excuse of COVID-19. The four states also sent out millions of mail-in ballot applications even if the voters themselves did not request the application. As a result, the state believed that it had caused “voting irregularities” that undermine the election results’ integrity.

Thus, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton believed that the changes should be deemed as “unconstitutional,” adding that “had the same uniform effect—they made the 2020 election less secure in the Defendant States.” In response, the Supreme Court ordered that the defendant states would have until Thursday to respond to the lawsuit.

Some of the states which were mentioned in the lawsuit fired back. In fact, the state of Georgia lashed out against Paxton. A statement by a spokesperson for the Office of the Attorney General claimed that the lawsuit was “constitutionally, legally and factually wrong about Georgia.”

In addition, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel also responded against Paxton’s lawsuit. In an interview for the left-wing media outlet, MSNBC, Nessel blasted the Texas AG by saying that he should first look at his own states before snooping on Michigan. She also claimed that Paxton’s attempt to disenfranchise over 155,000 voters is “insulting,” “outrageous,” and “insane.” Nessel eventually concluded that Paxton’s lawsuit is guaranteed to fail,

That same day, President Donald Trump also showed his support for Texas and even noted that the case was a “big one.” The President even hoped that this will be a victory after his legal team’s lawsuits were dismissed. In a separate post, Trump believed that there was no way he could have lost the election unless it is “fixed.”

In preparation, Trump had personally requested Sen. Ted Cruz to present the case if the Supreme Court finally agrees to a hearing. The Republican Senator is yet to respond whether he would accept Trump’s offer.