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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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.
Bush League Republicans (RINOS) ARE progressives.
They wear the R jersey as camouflage to confuse people.
What are 6 or 5 million votes between friends, hey?
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.
And Xi is manning the boats and the planes for Taiwan. invasion starts in 3, 2, 1.....
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.
What do you think is on Randy Jack/John's horny mind? Yes that is Pelosi at a White House function.
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.
Btt
I don’t think a Speaker of the House has to be an elected member of Congress. So Trump doesn’t have to run.
Time for the guillotine. And not just her.
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;
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