Posted on 12/12/2020 1:33:30 PM PST by USA Conservative
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I believe that it was that “ white nationalist “ John Paul Jones who shouted :
” I have not yet begun to fight “.
Members of Congress can, on January 6, challenge the electors from one or more states, but such a challenge, to be successful, requires a majority vote of both houses. The each-state-delegation-gets-one-vote procedure applies only if no one gets a majority of the electoral votes; it doesn't apply to a challenge to certified electoral votes.
It’s important that there is some official record of Republican controlled legislators voting for electors that are loyal to Trump in the contested states (Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, etc) by December 14, 2020. Also its important to have an official record of those electors voting for Trump on December 14, 2020. “Official” means Vice President Pence recognizes the two votes occurred in the right order and at the right time to justify Pence choosing electoral votes of Trump over those for Biden.
The same house that impeached him?
Courts, yes. Also, the contested, swing-state Republican legislatures can still send competing slates of Trump electors to Congress but that seems highly unlikely.
If both Courts and Republican legislatures fail to deliver for President Trump, then that's the end of the road. Given the U.S. House Democrat majority, it will reject any Republican objections to the states' EVs during the Jan. 6 count led by VP Pence, so Sleepy Joe Basement-Biden would become the official President-Elect on that day.
To attorney-freepers: If I have any of this wrong, please feel free to correct it.
Yes and no.
As is the fact that rulings of the chair can be appealed to the floor, where there are 270-272 Democrats and only 263-265 Republicans.
Can’t V.P. Pence refuse to certify the election? What happens if he does that on Jan. 6th?
January 6th is being pushed back. This can’t be resolved this quickly. The only set in stone date is January 20th
First of all, all four GOP Legislatures (PA, WI, GA, MI) have accepted Biden as President-Elect.
Second, any ruling by Pence (and I do not think he would rule for Trump) can and will be appealed to the floor where the Democrats have a majority. The one-state one vote rule in the House cannot come into play until Congress certifies that no candidate has a majority of Electors appointed.
For later study.....
I think the key person to watch is Mitch McConnell. If Mitch McConnell still refuses to call Joe Biden “president elect” after the electors vote on December 14, 2020, Mitch McConnell still believes Trump has a chance to be reelected. Mitch McConnell likely knows if Trump’s strategy will work.
“The election is not going to the House; all the States have already certified their electors, and the electors will vote Monday.”
You didn’t read it closely.
I heard a funny suggestion.
Pence should make up the votes and refuse to let the ballots be examined, just like these states did.
Eg California: 55 votes for Trump.
Yes, your assessment is correct. The majority of this post is quackery.
As of now, all states are set to send their electors to vote on Monday. As such, the 270 electoral vote threshold has been met. And, because of that, this cannot go to a one-state-one-vote election in the House.
Even if SCOTUS accepts Lin Wood’s Georgia case and Arizona’s case, rules in our favor in both (hah!), and those states flip their 27 electors to Trump (would require illegal ballots being thrown out by each state legislature...hah! x 10), the 270 minimum would still be met — without GA and AZ, Biden has 273. I don’t see any scenario in which we have NOT yet passed the 270 electoral vote requirement. The initial idea was to get a few state legislatures to not send electors, thus keeping the electoral college below 270 votes for a single candidate; that hasn’t happened anywhere and we’re out of time for it to happen.
The sentence in the post about the Senate voting to re-elect Pence is utter nonsense, too. Does anyone seriously think RINO Senators will vote for Pence? I’m from Alaska and have less than zero hope that Benedict Murkowski would vote for him.
I would love to be completely wrong.
We are not headed or a constitutional crisis we are in one. I think we all know where this is going to end up.
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