Posted on 12/31/2020 6:57:07 AM PST by USA Conservative
Yesterday Senator Josh Hawley announced that he will object during the Electoral College certification process on Jan 6. He will call for Congress to launch a full investigation of potential fraud and election irregularities and enact election integrity measures.
Several House Republicans have previously signaled their intention to do the same. With members of both the House and Senate planning objections, it’ll set off a dramatic scenario requiring a vote in both chambers.
Representative-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote in a tweet that the word on Capitol Hill is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may strike a deal to change the rules in how congressional members can object to Joe Biden’s slate of electors.
Greene did not elaborate or provide a source for her tweet but the rumors of this “deal” are increasing but McConnell was already urging Republicans not to object during Congress’s count and certification of the Electoral College vote.
McConnell’s comments were made during a caucus call earlier this month, according to two sources familiar with the call, and come as House Republicans are eyeing a challenge to the results on Jan. 6 during a joint session of Congress. But can they stop them?
With Senator Hawley now joining dozens (soon hundreds) of House Republicans in raising Objections, nothing McConnell and Pelosi can do to stop the objection process.
Unless they REPEAL the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
If they try rule changes, without repealing the Act, those rules will be invalid.
Doing anything to “stop” Senators and Reps from objecting would be a direct violation of the Act.
In fact, doing something so radical as to “block” Senators or Reps, would OBLIGATE the President of the Senate to dismiss their (McConnell and Pelosi) actions.
He may even need to exercise his 12A powers! The vote in the House would be by state delegation, not representatives. Republicans control the majority of those. In any case, the VP would throw out any rule change.
lol Yeah that makes me Completely skip an article and think much less of the outlet right there.
One party rule is best illustrated in the current success story in California.
Excuse me.
Why is the poster, usa conservative, catching flack? The headline comes from RedState and appears to be exactly the words used by the original poster.
Yeh. It should be “can’t do no nothin’”
That's why.
Then just proceed to the next article and read it.
Problem solved.
Thank you, and happy new year.
They have the correct headline on the site I misspelled somehow! :)
Much longer than that!......................
MITCH BETTER NOT!!!
I can see a rumble/riot in the both chambers.
This will NOT help GA republican candidate’s any! WOW! what a betrayal to them!! Cocaine Chyna man must go!
If we have learned nothing else over the past generation, it is that the Deep State does not need to abide by anything resembling Constitutional, legislative or judicial legitimate authority. We have witnessed brazen lawlessness in broad daylight with no perpetrator ever being held accountable. And no, I do not consider getting a cable show or mega-dollar book deal “being held accountable.”
I expect both Pelosi and McConnell to have their respective Sergeants-at-Arms waiting at the door to drag out anyone impertinent enough to demand “regular order” of following the law or anything so arcane. They will declare any motion to challenge the EC to be “out of order” and if the member(s) make a ruckus they will be physically removed. For Hawley this is his make-or-break moment, if he can make enough noise he will gravitate into Trump’s slipstream and probably be the GOP candidate in 2024. That would be great if he could have Trump’s fire-in-the-belly but with vastly superior manners, intelligence and political knowledge.
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