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Video: Pelosi Says It Is Her Right To Seat And Unseat Any Member Of Congress She Wants – But Can Pelosi Do That?
USA Supreme ^ | 03.25.2021 | George Rowe

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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To: USA Conservative

She seems to be able to do whatever she wants.
She falsely certified Obama as a natural born citizen (but curiously, only to Hawaii) in 2008.


41 posted on 03/25/2021 5:17:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 100%FEDUP

Bush League Republicans (RINOS) ARE progressives.
They wear the R jersey as camouflage to confuse people.


42 posted on 03/25/2021 5:20:22 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: USA Conservative

What are 6 or 5 million votes between friends, hey?


43 posted on 03/25/2021 5:26:01 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: DesertRhino
Indulge me for a moment; remind me again why we vote in America?

In the old days, it was so we would have representation in our government. Now, it is so you won't notice how warm the water is getting.
44 posted on 03/25/2021 5:33:54 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Darteaus94025

5) He’s elected by the Republican House as SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.>>>
Yes i would like to see this type of play by trump.


45 posted on 03/25/2021 5:34:58 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: USA Conservative
Pelosi Says It Is Her Right To Seat And Unseat Any Member Of Congress She Wants

Some motherf***ers are always trying to iceskate uphill.
46 posted on 03/25/2021 5:35:05 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: glimmerman70

And Xi is manning the boats and the planes for Taiwan. invasion starts in 3, 2, 1.....


47 posted on 03/25/2021 5:36:25 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Sarah Barracuda

What is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander.
Remember. It’s not fraud if you “do not intend to commi.t fraud “.
Something I learned from the 2012 Election h ere in Ohio.


48 posted on 03/25/2021 5:38:25 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: Lurkinanloomin
She seems to be able to do whatever she wants. Pelosi at a young age learned how to win politically! There is no secret!

What do you think is on Randy Jack/John's horny mind? Yes that is Pelosi at a White House function.


49 posted on 03/25/2021 5:39:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: erkelly

Get off your high Horse and Down in the mud. Marquis of Queensbury rules are out. How do you win over those who do not play fair?
We are more creative and resourceful.


50 posted on 03/25/2021 5:46:22 PM PDT by griswold3
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To: USA Conservative

Btt


51 posted on 03/25/2021 5:47:17 PM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks)
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To: Darteaus94025

I don’t think a Speaker of the House has to be an elected member of Congress. So Trump doesn’t have to run.


52 posted on 03/25/2021 5:50:57 PM PDT by abishai ( )
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To: USA Conservative

Time for the guillotine. And not just her.


53 posted on 03/25/2021 6:50:14 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: colorado tanker

Article I, Section 5

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business;


However once a member is seated, coming back and saying that the member wasn’t duly elected seems like lack of due process.


54 posted on 03/26/2021 9:33:36 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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