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Lansing — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel contended Friday that if Texas is successful in its push to overturn election results in battleground states that voted for President-elect Joe Biden, « it is the end of democracy in the United States. » « It’s an affront to our democracy in its entirety, » she said of the lawsuit from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. « This is how democracies die by virtue of these types of actions which are unprecedented in American history. » Nessel, a Plymouth Democrat and Michigan’s top law enforcement official, made the comments during a Voter Protection Program press briefing on Friday morning, a day after she filed the state’s response to Texas’s legal challenge. On Tuesday, Paxton, a GOP supporter of President Donald Trump, announced he was suing Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in the U.S. Supreme Court. Paxton contended the four states that helped deliver the presidential race for Biden had violated election laws and improperly expanded absentee voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. The suit has become the new focus of Trump’s efforts to reverse the election’s results as presidential electors prepare to meet on Monday.
