It is hard to get at the truth of this matter and I don't know if what York writes is accurate. To get under 300 words I had to cut a lot of significant assertions. But the whole article is worth reading.
I'm no fan of York, but on this one he's right. Under U.S. law and the 12th Amendment, there's no basis for Congress to reject any electoral votes unless two conditions are in place:
1. The electoral votes from one or more states are in dispute, AND ...
2. There are competing slates of electors certified by individuals or governing bodies (i.e., a legislature or a board of elections) from those states.
Condition #2 was not met in 2020 even though the disputes related to Condition #1 were legitimate.
Eastman knew quite well the alternate slate of electors was contingent on their acceptance by the Congress. The point of the Congressional debate on Jan 6 was to present evidence that would convince the Reps and Senators that the certified electors were the result of a corrupted election process and the totals they were based on could not be certified as true and accurate.
This has been confirmed in the “Rigged” and “2000 Mules” movies but there was considerable affidavit and video evidence at the time that the popular election in several states violated state law.
The process the Eastman tried to invoke was developed for just such a scenario when the popular vote was found to be uncertifiable.
Nancy Pelosi and others knew they could not allow this Constitutional process to go forward, so they intentionally conspired with government agent provocateurs ala the kidnapping of Whitmer in MI to provoke gullible groups like Proud Boys to enter the Capitol while failing to secure access to the building. Their objective was to shut down the debate. This was the real insurrection.
“In the short run, Democrats hope the hearings will help revive their troubled political fortunes for this November’s midterm elections. In the long run, Democrats hope the hearings will somehow disqualify former President Donald Trump from running again in 2024.”>>>>>>>>>>
Mr. York is so effete.
The fact is that the Jan. 6th Kangaroo Kommission is attempting to create a public trial without due process, because in its previous two iterations, Impeachments 1 and 2 , there was a modicum of due process in the Senate which denied their fabrications of evidence.
Now the Kangaroo Kommission is nothing more than a Torquemada witch trial but they have one problem: The Nov. 3rd midterms in which the Republicans will achieve majorities in the House and Senate and put the Kangaroo Commission to an ignominious end. The vexing question is “will the Republicans have enough balls to turn the tables on those who have participated in this witch hunt?”It will be necessary to put to account those who sit on this Kangaroo Kommission and who publicly deny the Constitution and the Rules of Congress, for their sedition, as well as the Attorney General himself should he decide to prosecute President Trump.
Then there are traitors like Barr, Cheney, Pence, Schumer, Pelosi, McConnell and others who form a parallel secondary tier of jingoistic “ elite privilege” who deny the will of the People. There must be some form of purge this time, one which will drain this sordid swamp for good so that there is a return to Constitutional governance instead of rule by perverted executive order, refusal to enforce existing law, in order to create a re-imagined America as a Socialist Utopia.The Republican enablers of this mess must also be examined in the public eye of truth.And their harvesting of millions using the levers of their power must be ended either by the IRS or by RICO statute Law.
Whether that is initiated by President Trump or a President Ron DeSantis, I do not much care, but they must bring America back from the brink of Leftist Insanity where our schools have become indoctrination centers for the sexual and socialist perversions of minority elites, who now exercise their “privilege” while they deny the Rights of the People themselves. Their drastic measures must be turned on these sordid psychopomps themselves.They have released a tide of drugs on the nation which originate in China, and enabled demograhic warfare on the People by allowing millions of illegal aliens cross the border into the heartland of America.
Republicans! Do not allow these traitors and quislings to dig holes deep enough to hibernate until the next possible weirdo administration. They need rooting out and permanent dislocation from the body politic. And Byron York? Shame on YOU!
Effete Byron York is all too collegial. And he commits vast errors of omission purposefully about the Eastman Memo.
Witness what the Left now attempts to do to Peter Navarro, the one man who has shown the world how aberrant the 2020 General Election truly was. The Democrats want him silenced. I am sure if they thought they would not suffer retaliation,Navarro would be assassinated by the Left’s wet work teams of Clinton and Obama, the same ones who arranged for the death of Epstein as a prisoner in federal lock up , New York City’s Hang Yourself Hotel, about which then AG Willim Barr was so outraged that he did nothing. Navarro is like Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings. He alone has made a cogent case based on fact so that President Trump is correct in his assertion that the election of 2020 was stolen, and now the Dems try to silence Navarro and ruin him financially in the method and style used against General Michael Flynn.
Why does York fail to mention this ?
If you have not taken the time to read the Navarro Report, please do so for it will give the true context of how drastic and dangerous this Kangaroo Kommission truly is. The election indeed was stolen, and the Swamp’s Kangaroo Kommission and the Leftist loyal media want to cover it up as if it never happened. Do not let them get away with that Byron York, get some fire in your belly, and stop cranking your proper mill in reverse!!
As far as Eastman’s Memo, it was couched in the context that the State Legislatures are responsible for setting state rules and regulations for any federal election. That’s the essence of the Constitution, and the problem is that radical elected State Judges, illegal litigation settlement agreements by Governors and Secretaries of State, and other illegal agencies illegally changed the rules of state elections at the last minute, which had been set by Republican Legislatures.The vote was therefore unsecure without proper verification procedures. Why does York fail to mention this? In each state there indeed was a parallel set of defacto electors who had been appointed by these same traduced state legislatures, waiting in the wings?
York is somewhat suspended in his recognition of fact.He has become nothing but a foil for the left. And he has not provided the proper Constitutional Context in which the Eastman Memo was couched.
York is now becoming an unmitigated Psychopomp, and enabler of the Left. If you believe this article, we all will be buying a bridge in Brooklyn next. Its an unmitigated blasphemy of sly spin.
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Reference: The Navarro Report:
https://peternavarro.com/category/the-navarro-report/
Text:The Navarro Report:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/584r7xtnngauc4t/The%20Navarro%20Report%20Vol%20I%2C%20II%2C%20III%20-%20Feb.%202%2C%202021.pdf?dl=0
