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 really does think she’s the queen of everything.
Indulge me for a moment; remind me again why we vote in America?
Soon the required from tyrants .... Bow Down, Worship Her ?
Nancy Pelosi is drunk with power.
The Great Whore and the Beast
This might describe Nancy Pelosi
17Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, ‘Come, I will show you the judgement of the great whore who is seated on many waters, 2with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and with the wine of whose fornication the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.’ 3So he carried me away in the spirit* into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; 5and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: ‘Babylon the great, mother of whores and of earth’s abominations.’ 6And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.
She has a god complex.
If this happens, we should play Hard Ball in 2022 when we win back the House and Senate.
So I guess it was Trump’s right to stay in office as long as he wanted to..imagine if he had said that..Id say that Pelosi is a senile lil f*cker but she isn’t..she is truly evil scum
We elect them to be our reps, not our overlords.
She does not have half the power she thinks of wishes she had.
Not with mail in voting we wont..that is why the left wants mail in voting permanent
Why would anyone think any better of this wretched woman with a diseased brain.
Courts will allow her to do anything she wants, including the Gutless
Supreme Court.
Nancy, just about the time you’re ready to do another jig because you think you are queen, one of your $14 ice cream pints is going to stop your heart.
Two can play this game. All’s fair in love and politics. If we refuse to play by their rules, they always will win.
They are going to see how much they can get away with. The media will look the other way. Same with the courts and in my opinion so will the GOP. This is all in our faces BS! RINOs still think they have a seat at the progressives table. Progressives don’t share with anyone.
I don’t see how this can possibly be right where the State authorities have duly certified the election.
Queen Nancy. Fornicate that! Will someone file to declare the Speaker seat vacant. Abuse of power.
Pelosi is drunk
Full stop
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