President Donald Trump won Texas in the November election.
So the state's electors met Monday at the capitol in Austin, all 38 votes went to the incumbent president.
That's as it should be. Even if the end result remained unchanged. President-elect Joe Biden had more electoral votes than President Trump. That's our democratic republic.
What happened next wasn't so democratic. During the meeting the electors voted 34 to 4 to condemn the U.S. Supreme Court for declining to hear a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and joined by several other states challenging voting procedures in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin in hopes of overturning Biden's victory and keeping the president in the White House for four more years.
The resolution is toothless. Texas electors have no power over the U.S. Supreme Court. And that, too, is how it should be.
The nation's highest court is not an elected body, bound to political parties or even the will of the people. They serve the Constitution and the law.
That doesn't mean they will make everyone happy. That's not their job. They take or deny cases on the merits. And Paxton's lawsuit fell short.
We understand many are upset that President Trump lost. But childish resolutions that amount to nothing but sour grapes aren't going to give him four more years.