Case 6:21-cv-00043-ADA-JCM Document 1 Filed 01/18/21 Page 1 of 54 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS WACO DIVISON LATINOS FOR TRUMP, BLACKS § FOR TRUMP, JOSHUA MACIAS, § M.S., B. G., J.B., J.J., § § Plaintiffs. § § § v. § CIVIL ACTION NO. ______________ § PETE SESSIONS, MITCH § McCONNELL, NANCY PELOSI, § MARK ZUCKERBERG, CHUCK § SCHUMER, ALEXANDRIA § OCASIO-CORTEZ, BRAD § RAFFENSPERGER, ALL § MEMBERS OF THE 117TH U.S. § JURY TRIAL REQUESTED CONGRESS, et al., Defendants. ORIGINAL COMPLAINT AND APPLICATION FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF COME NOW, Latinos for Trump, Blacks for Trump, Joshua Macias, M.S., B. G., J.B., J.J., (collectively, “Plaintiffs”), by and through their attorneys, Paul M. Davis, and Kellye SoRelle, and respectfully represent the following to this Honorable Court: I. NATURE OF SUIT AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS 1. Despite the appearance of “Trump” in the names of two of the Plaintiff entities, this is not a 2020 presidential election fraud lawsuit.1 This lawsuit does not seek to change the declared winner of any election that took place in the past year, 1 This is not a Sidney Powell lawsuit. This is not a Rudy Giuliani lawsuit. This is not a Lin Wood lawsuit. This is not a Team Trump lawsuit. This is not a Republican lawsuit. This is not a Democrat lawsuit. 1 Case 6:21-cv-00043-ADA-JCM Document 1 Filed 01/18/21 Page 2 of 54 including the 2020 Presidential Race and the 2021 Georgia Senate Runoff. In fact, this lawsuit will most certainly not inure to the benefit of any American politician, regardless of party affiliation.2 2. Instead, this lawsuit demonstrates how various and pervasive changes in election procedures implemented in all 50 states in response to the COVID-19 pandemic violated the 2002 Help America Vote Act, 42 U.S.C §§ 15301 et seq.,as amended (“HAVA”). Because Congress has the express constitutional authority to enact laws,3 such as HAVA, to mandate minimum standards for federal election integrity; because the 50 states were required to follow the minimum election standards set forth in HAVA in the 2020 federal elections; and because all 50 states failed to do so; this failure deprived every single U.S. Citizen, including Plaintiffs, of their sacrosanct Constitutional right to participate in the democratic election of their congressional representatives to the federal government in the 2020 election (the “Federal Election”),including both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, by stripping such Plaintiffs and other citizens of their fundamental right to cast a legal vote in the Federal Election without due process of law and while acting under color of law.4 3. The evidence will show that this egregious deprivation of the most basic right guaranteed to every American since the founding of the Republic—the right to 2 Except to the extent that it may benefit such persons in their role as an ordinary citizen of these United States. 3 See Article I, Section 4 4 See, e.g., United States v. State of Tex., 252 F. Supp. 234, 250–51 (W.D. Tex.), aff'd sub nom. Texas v. United States, 384 U.S. 155, 86 S. Ct. 1383, 16 L. Ed. 2d 434 (1966). 2 Case 6:21-cv-00043-ADA-JCM Document 1 Filed 01/18/21 Page 3 of 54 cast a legal vote in a federal election, which amounts to the right to a government by consent of the governed was not, in the case of many Defendants, the result of mere negligence or ignorance. The evidence that will come forth in the course of this lawsuit will establish an intentional concert of conduct between federal, state, and local government officials and various partisan enterprises that should be considered a boot to the throat of every American who believes that the Constitution of the United States guarantees every citizen the right to a government elected by the People. 4. The truth of the allegations set forth herein compels the shocking conclusion that every member of currently-seated 117th U.S. Congress and the President-Elect, who is scheduled to be sworn in this coming Wednesday, January 20th, were not legitimately elected because the People of the United States were given ballots that were patently illegal under federal law, namely HAVA. Therefore, the entire 117th Congress is illegitimate and all actions taken since January 3, 2021, including the counting of the Electoral College votes and confirmation of Joseph Biden as President-Elect and the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump are null and void. 5. Never before in the history of the United States of America (the “Republic”) has the entire federal election been conducted in clear and unequivocal violation of duly-enacted federal election law. With the sitting President’s term set to expire this Wednesday, January 20th, this situation is a Constitutional Crisis of cataclysmic proportion unlike any seen since the Southern States seceded from the 3 Case 6:21-cv-00043-ADA-JCM Document 1 Filed 01/18/21 Page 4 of 54 Republic in 1861. The only conceivable remedy is for this Honorable Court to enter an injunction to restrain all further action and to enjoin the enforcement and effect of all previous actions of the 117th Congress until trial upon the merits, and, upon a verdict for the Plaintiffs, for the Court to order the 50 states to conduct a new federal election that conforms to the minimum standards of HAVA. 6. The 20th Amendment mandates that President Trump’s term must end at noon on January 20th, but since Congress’s act on January 6, 2021 in confirming Joseph Biden as President-Elect was clearly illegitimate, and there is effectively no lawfully existing Legislative Branch this means that the Presidential Inauguration cannot lawfully go forward on Wednesday. Thankfully, there is still time for the only the only lawfully and constitutionally remaining federal public official, President Donald Trump to take all reasonable and necessary action consistent with the Take Care Clause of Article II, Section 1 and all the original intents and purposes of the Constitution of the United States to preserve the lawful and orderly continuity of government. 7. Accordingly, this Court should rest assured that the relief requested in this lawsuit will not result in the destruction of democracy, as the dishonest national news media, who has been complicit in this crisis and as will be shown in the course of this lawsuit, will attempt to claim. No, it is actually the exact opposite. The purpose of this lawsuit is merely to enforce the laws and Constitution of the Republic to SAVE AND RESTORE the democratic republican process on which the People have depended to protect their individual rights since the dawn of our Republic. 4 Case 6:21-cv-00043-ADA-JCM Document 1 Filed 01/18/21 Page 5 of 54 8. The intentional failure of such enforcement, perpetrated by a host of federall and state government officials acting in concert with private individuals, deprived the Plaintiffs of their sacred constitutional rights. Plaintiffs are clearly not the first group of Black and Latino voters deprived of their right to legally cast a vote, but they are the first such group to stand in the gap for all citizens and residents of the Republic, regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex, or national origin (collectively, including Plaintiffs, the “People”). If the Court does not grant the relief requested in this Complaint and the forthcoming Emergency Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, Plaintiffs and all the People they now represent will suffer the gravest and most extreme form of imminent and irreparable harm imaginable: the permanent and irreversible right to a government by consent of the governed. II. SUMMARY OF CASE 9. The sheer volume of evidence in this action revealing Defendants’ shocking acts and omissions that deprived Plaintiffs of their constitutional and statutory rights to participate in the democratic election of their representatives to Congress could give anyone the impression that this lawsuit presents convoluted or complex legal theories. To the contrary, Plaintiffs’ right to relief in this matter is so simple that a 3rd grader could be taught to understand it. Here is the unassailable syllogism that compels Plaintiffs’ relief: 1) Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution specifies that, although the state legislatures shall prescribe the regulations for the election of Senators and Representatives, the Congress may make or alter such regulations, except as to the selection of Senators; 5 Case 6:21-cv-00043-ADA-JCM Document 1 Filed 01/18/21 Page 6 of 54 2) Congress exercised this authority by enacting the minimum standards for election integrity in HAVA to restore public confidence in US elections in response to the Bush v. Gore debacle; 3) States were therefore required to follow the minimum standards for the election of Representatives; 4) As to Senators, all 50 states made an enforceable contract with Congress by accepting federal monies in exchange for the state’s agreement to implement the minimum standards of HAVA; 5) All 50 states made changes to their election procedures regarding voter registration and ballot applications, particularly mail-in and absentee ballot applications that violate the minimum standards of HAVA prior to the 2020 congressional elections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; 6) Therefore, the ballots provided to all persons who voted in the 2020 congressional elections were themselves illegal; 7) It is self-evident that a legal vote cannot be cast by virtue of an illegal ballot; 8) Therefore, not a single member of the 117th United States Congress was legally elected, which renders Congress illegitimate.