Posted on 03/25/2021 3:50:45 PM PDT by USA Conservative
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday downplayed concerns from centrist Democrats who warned party leaders against potentially overturning the election result of a closely contested House seat in Iowa.
The House Administration Committee is considering a challenge from Democrat Rita Hart, who is contesting the results in Iowa’s 2nd District after the state certified that Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won by just six votes.
Pelosi maintained that the House has the authority to adjudicate contested elections
After a recount, Iowa certified the tally and Miller-Meeks was seated in January.
Pelosi today argued that she’s not obligated to seat certified election winner: If I wanted to be unfair I wouldn’t have seated the Rep from Iowa because that was my right on the opening day. I would have just said, you’re not seated, and that would have been my right as Speaker to do.
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Is she claiming that she has dictatorial powers to determine who can be in the House of Representatives and can Pelosi do this?
The Federal Contested Elections Act provides a procedure for the House to determine who should be seated. But I think she’s wrong that SHE could have decided anything upfront or without going through the committee hearing process
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Speaker of the House could not exclude a duly-elected candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. In Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486 (1969).
If Pelosi has her way and loses the house, the next speaker should refuse to seat every Democrat. Is that how she wants it to work? I thought she told us certified elections can’t be contested?
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Could this work:
1) Run Trump as a Rep from a yugely Republican district.
2) He wins.
3) He gets sworn in WITH the incoming Reps as...
4) ...the Republicans take the House in 2022 - a given per Newt.
5) He’s elected by the Republican House as SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.
6) Trump now has a national role for the 1.5 years remaining before the 2024 Presidential campaign gets going in ernest.
7) Trump runs for President, wins, and we all live happily ever after...
Yeah right. That gutless bunch of GOPee would never do that.
If she can unseat anyone she chooses, then is there any reason that Pelosi herself can’t be unseated? And I might add that several years ago would not have been soon enough.
Can’t you tell Pelosi has mellowed lately? She threatens to unseat people but used to get them roughed up or just yell “Off with their heads!”
“Oh, and hands off my chair.”
The Constitution says that each house of Congress is the judge of its elections, members’ qualifications, etc. The Federal Contested Elections Act may set the procedure, but it doesn’t override the Constitution. If the members vote that the dem won the seat, the seat becomes hers. There is no appeal possible, except to the people in the district where the seat was stolen—at the next election.
Adam Clayton Powell (D) from Harlem was expelled for taking bribes (I think—hard to believe, I know). His constituents promptly voted him back into office (of course). SCOTUS said that the HoR could not refuse to seat him.
Kick her tired azz to the curb.
If that’s the way she wants to play, she’d better keep those fences up after all.
>”7) Trump runs for President, wins, and we all live happily ever after...”<
Dominion Voting Systems respectfully disagrees.
Her run is about done. After today the leader they thought they had for a while had shown he has no idea. They have to pull the plug soon. Can you imagine what other nations leaders think after watching this today. Most are licking there chops and ready to take advantage of us. I don’t think kamala will last long either. She will fail in 3 months. That leaves either pelosi (which is what she is waiting on) or she steps aside. Things are crashing quickly around them and Trump is waiting.
Comrade, you will be required to vote! You will vote for the only choice, chosen by Party Central Committee! Failure to place your ballot, GULAG for you!
Trump could then unelect Nazi.
It's just the price the American sheeple pay for shamelessly allowing the government to fall under absolute communist control...
At worst, the sheeple (8-to-15 generations) have many centuries ahead to figure out what went wrong...
In the meantime, Americans will, like the abject cowards they have become, live by the tenets the communists demand:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
You may not have been paying attention.
There will not be any "fair" elections.
The Dems got to green light from lower courts and SCOTUS to cheat. The courts will not interfere.
Would be hysterical if the a new Republican speaker seated Pelosi’s opponent
Go fornicate yourself, Pelosi.
I so detest that witch.
Lol! Can you imagine the SoTU then, watching DJT instead of Joedementia or HeelsUp?
Plugs the Pedo said there won’t be a Republican Party in the next election.
How do you propose to do that now that cheating is legal and the supreme court is scared useless. Biden just told you there won’t be a republican party in 2024, what should that tell you about 2022?
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