Six states formally join Texas' election lawsuit before the Supreme Court. The case challenges electors in four states.

From a statement from the state of Texas: "The joining states agree with Texas: the defendant states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify unlawfully enacting last-minute changes and ignoring both federal and state election laws, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election." (Daily Wire)

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• Six states formally joined Texas' lawsuit before the Supreme Court: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina, and Utah. Additional states have expressed support for the case.

• Two days ago, the Texas Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The lawsuit challenges the states' electors to the Electoral College.

• According to The Hill, the Supreme Court "has not yet indicated whether it will hear the case." The clock is ticking: the electors for the Electoral College will meet in just five days.

• The central argument that the Texas AG has made: that the four states allegedly "unlawfully enact[ed] last-minute changes" to voting procedures, which the suit argues "skew[ed] the results of the 2020 General Election" and allegedly made voting in these states "less secure."

• The lawsuit asks for two things, according to Reuters:

-- "block the Electoral College votes in the four states -- a total of 62 votes -- from being counted"; that would result in a 234-232 Electoral College split and the vote would head to Congress as neither candidate cleared 270 Electoral College Votes

-- "delay the Dec. 14 date for Electoral College votes to be cast"

• This type of case is unprecedented, as one election law expert explained to CNBC: "It’s totally unprecedented, the idea that one state would, at the Supreme Court, claim that other states’ votes were cast in the wrong way — that’s never happened."

• The case may also come down to a question of procedure and standing, i.e. ability to file the suit, rather than the merits of Texas' allegations about voting security.

President Trump personally asks Sen. Ted Cruz to argue Texas' election case before Supreme Court.

"Trump asked Cruz 'if he would be willing to make oral arguments in the case should it reach the Supreme Court,' and Cruz agreed to do so, The New York Times reports. 'Before he joined the Senate in 2013, Mr. Cruz argued before the Supreme Court nine times, representing Texas in most of those cases in his role as the state’s solicitor general.'" (Daily Wire)

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• President Trump has asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to argue Texas' election case before the Supreme Court.

• Sen. Cruz had previously volunteered to argue a Pennsylvania election case, but the Supreme Court unanimously declined to throw out ballots or overturn the election results as certified in Pennsylvania, as that pending lawsuit had requested.

• Sen. Cruz has previously argued before the Supreme Court in nine cases, before his election to the U.S. Senate.

House GOP members ask President Trump to appoint special counsel to investigate the 2020 election.

“The lawmakers, led by Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas), said in a letter to the president that Americans 'deserve a definite resolution' into uncertainty around the election, according to the letter obtained by Politico. They added that 'legitimate questions of voter fraud remain unanswered.'" (The Hill)

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Read the letter they sent to President Trump for yourself

• Twenty-seven House GOP members have asked President Trump to appoint a special counsel to investigate the 2020 election.

• As National Review reports: "The Republicans’ frustration comes after [Attorney General] Barr said last week that the Justice Department has not found evidence of voter fraud widespread enough to change the outcome of this year’s presidential election."