Electoral College Protocol and Tradition calls for the President of the Senate to ask, "if there are any objections ... " before the votes are tallied.
For some reason, Dick Cheney did not do that in the last election. More tellingly against us, not one elector took exception to this critical lapse.
Ain't that the damndest?
n law, severability (sometimes known as salvatorius, from Latin) ....
Well turnabout is fair play. What Team Obama is doing to the Constitution certainly qualifies a severability in regard to Article II!
The actual statute calls for it.
My suspicion is that Dick Cheney refused to obey the law so that Obama could never legally be the president, even if everybody pretended he was. I think Cheney knew it was all a farce, just like Chief Justice Roberts knew it was a farce. As long as the critical characters were willing to play the part just enough so nobody would claim that Obama wasn’t POTUS, Soros was willing to throw them a bone to salve their consciences. The 2 things claimed to prove that Obama is really the POTUS are the Congressional certification (which Chency never did according to the law) and the oath of office (for which there is no video of Roberts doing it correctly).