Posted on 01/05/2021 6:03:57 AM PST by White Lives Matter
The question is, ‘two each’, or ‘two total’.
Two hours was always the rule.
Pence is looking to screw us and Trump with this “deal”, thinking that the little two-hour session will somehow placate us for his overseeing and certifying the election theft.
I think he is pulling a fast one. He has proposed a commission of senators to look at the problem for 10 days. In 10 days it will be January 17 or something. They’re just running out the clock is my impression. On January 77 there won’t be any chance of a real solution.
Did we ever know a congressional committee and accomplished anything?
“cruz is smoke and mirrors, he’s in it for himself, it’s all for show, he, like others, believe there is no chance this election will be overturned....ted is a snake.”
You may be right. I think Ted wants to be on the Supreme Court. If he helps Trump, that might happen.
Title 3-—
Counting electoral votes in congress
§ 15. Congress shall be in session on the sixth day of January succeeding every meeting of the electors.
The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives at the hour of 1 o’clock in the afternoon on that day, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer.
Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and counted according to the rules in this subchapter provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses.
Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any.
Every objection shall be made in writing, and shall state clearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and shall be signed by at least one Senator and one Member of the House of Representatives before the same shall be received.
When all objections so made to any vote or paper from a State shall have been received and read, the Senate shall thereupon withdraw, and such objections shall be submitted to the Senate for its decision; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, in like manner, submit such objections to the House of Representatives for its decision; and no electoral vote or votes from any State which shall have been regularly given by electors whose appointment has been lawfully certified to according to section 6 of this title from which but one return has been received shall be rejected, but the two Houses concurrently may reject the vote or votes when they agree that such vote or votes have not been so regularly given by electors whose appointment has been so certified.
If more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State shall have been received by the President of the Senate, those votes, and those only, shall be counted which shall have been regularly given by the electors who are shown by the determination mentioned in section 5 of this title to have been appointed, if the determination in said section provided for shall have been made, or by such successors or substitutes, in case of a vacancy in the board of electors so ascertained, as have been appointed to fill such vacancy in the mode provided by the laws of the State; but in case there shall arise the question which of two or more of such State authorities determining what electors have been appointed, as mentioned in section 5 of this title, is the lawful tribunal of such State, the votes regularly given of those electors, and those only, of such State shall be counted whose title as electors the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide is supported by the decision of such State so authorized by its law; and in such case of more than one return or paper purporting to be a return from a State, if there shall have been no such determination of the question in the State aforesaid, then those votes, and those only, shall be counted which the two Houses shall concurrently decide were cast by lawful electors appointed in accordance with the laws of the State, unless the two Houses, acting separately, shall concurrently decide such votes not to be the lawful votes of the legally appointed electors of such State.
But if the two Houses shall disagree in respect of the counting of such votes, then, and in that case, the votes of the electors whose appointment shall have been certified by the executive of the State, under the seal thereof, shall be counted. When the two Houses have voted, they shall immediately again meet, and the presiding officer shall then announce the decision of the questions submitted.
No votes or papers from any other State shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes or papers from any State shall have been finally disposed of.
Newby, here to trigger people into trashing a good Republican senator. Nice.
I see no reason all 12 Senators cannot challenge each and every Sate, especially those that used Dominion machines.
GP should change its name to TP. It belongs in the toilet.
There are a few never-Cruzers here on FR, who have absolutely despised Cruz since the primaries 4+ years ago. They are so severely butt-hurt that they’ll never come around to affirm anything Cruz says or does. It’s pointless arguing with those with Cruz Derangement Syndrome. Just pity them.
We’ll see tomorrow. I hope you are right.
FR is infested with these cretins of late.
I miss MurrayMom and Eschoir. We always knew where they stood, or sat, or squatted, or whatever.
That is what I thought but the six battleground state legislatures come back into session during that time and could de-certify biden or certify Trump.
At this point, it is all about timing.
Yea are the other TEN senators not moving on another state not natural born citizens??
My pop wasn’t either. From Italy.
I bet he was more patriotic than 90 percent of the buffoons you know.
So basically, all the state legislatures have to be ready with alternate electors and then the Senate (by majority vote) has to disagree with the House on enough of the contested states - some combination of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia to get Slo Joe below 270.
That’s a lot of things that have to go together in the proper sequence to get to a Trump re-election.
If I had to bet, it would be a pro-forma 2 hour “debate” after the objections and speeches, everybody collects their bribes and Slo Joe is voted in.
Once the chambers split, each person is allowed no more than five minutes to speak, and may only speak once. If two hours have passed, they move immediately to a vote, then reconvene as a joint body to hear the next state.
Then they repeat the process.
-PJ
Anyone not skeptical of what GOP politicians say is likely dead or in a coma.
Absolutely!!! Doomsayer posts are found in every thread about the stolen election. Some of them are from people who have been zotted in the past for similar behavior and managed to get a reprieve recently, some of them are from accounts that were inactive for years, and some are from newbies.
“””Two hours each. They cannot move onto the next state until the prior challenge is resolved.
Once the chambers split, each person is allowed no more than five minutes to speak, and may only speak once. If two hours have passed, they move immediately to a vote, then reconvene as a joint body to hear the next state.
Then they repeat the process.”””
That is my understanding of the process as well. Given the fact that there are hundreds of allegations of voter fraud and dozens of allegations of Constitutional, Statutory, and Regulatory violations, we could see a thousand or more challenges.
-PJ
Ted has said he does not want to be a S.C. justice: he wants to fight to put conservatives on the court. But there is little conservatism on this court now.
I strongly suspect Cruz is trying to position himself for 2024.
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