Tremendous support from all over the Country. All we ask is COURAGE & WISDOM from those that will be making one of the most important decisions in our Country’s history. God bless you!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020
Tremendous support from all over the Country. All we ask is COURAGE & WISDOM from those that will be making one of the most important decisions in our Country’s history. God bless you!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 11, 2020
On Wednesday, December 9, 2020, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and/or members of his legal team, would join as intervenors, in the lawsuit brought by Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to the U.S. Supreme Court against four battleground states.
“We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!”
~ Donald J. Trump
We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a victory!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2020
What Is Intervention?
In the U.S., “intervention” is a Civil Law procedure where someone not currently part of a case can join the case to make sure their interests get fairly represented.
There are two types of intervention:
Intervention of Right – When an outside party seeks to join a case via “intervention of right,” that person or party will have filed a motion with the courts presenting sufficient evidence that they have an interest in the money, the property or the issues involved, that they risk some form of injustice if not joined to the case, and that no one else already on the case can sufficiently represent their interests.
Permissive Intervention – When an outside party tries to join a case using the “permissive intervention” route, they may not have a direct financial interest in the case, but, they will be able to prove that there is a particular question of law or statute that needs clarification or interpretation by the judge.
Sometimes getting this question of what a law means and how it will be interpreted in the case will not happen unless another party intervenes and raises the issue themselves. A judge can deny the request or allow that party to be added to the case when that question of law is common enough to a significant group of people.
Source: WeWin.com
