:: Votes that the Constitution does not recognize as electoral votes were counted as if they were electoral votes. ::
The Constitution does not vest Congress with the authority to discern the electoral votes sent to them by the States.
Joint Rules provide a process to do that but Congress can, according to the Constitution, run their show anyway they want to.
Hence, the Rules of the Day were suspended.
Emergency rules were voted on (simple majority) and Pelosi took over.
All according to Roberts Rules of Order.
I’m not arguing that the election was NOT fraudulent.
I’m stating that the process was followed and Biden IS, for intents and purposes Constitutional, POTUS.
According to the Constitution.
That does NOT mean he is C-in-C if the military has objective concerns about the \election\.
Let us connect another dot...Adam Schiff moved to reject/deny any and all military intelligence relating to the January 6 event at the Capitol.
If the MIL had \objective\ evidence and was asked to provide it by, they could and would.
Schiff ran an end-around to save the narrative.
Future proves the past.
To me it seems that each Congress-critter’s oath to the US Constitution and the clear failure of certain states to follow their own legislature’s rules for choosing electors - combined with an adequate length of time to consider how that all ties together - means that Congress members had a duty to not accept “electoral votes” that did not Constitutionally qualify to BE electoral votes.
I see what you’re saying about the procedures being followed - EXCEPT that the procedure outlined specifically in the Constitution is that ELECTORAL VOTES CHOSEN BY THE PROCESSES PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURES be counted. That was never done.
It’s a little bit like the Pharisees’ rules about titheing being followed even when they overrule what the Lord Himself actually said about caring for family members first. The Constitution is above all procedures and when the lower procedures are followed in violation of the Constitution’s clear procedures, the Constitutional procedures have NOT been followed, even if all the procedural dance around the actual Constitution has been done.
“I’m stating that the process was followed”
“Emergency rules were voted on (simple majority) and Pelosi took over.”
The Constitution puts Pence in charge and makes no provision for changing that without an amendment.