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To: Political Junkie Too
I didn't say to appoint President Trump as Speaker, I said to use the power of the 20th amendment to name Trump as Acting President.

My error.

The problem is than on January 20th a president was chosen and was sworn in. Even if all the claims of fraud are taken to court and are found to be valid that is not going to trigger the 20th Amendment. Nothing in the Constitution supports a do-over.

211 posted on 07/23/2021 2:19:55 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
The problem is than on January 20th a president was chosen and was sworn in. Even if all the claims of fraud are taken to court and are found to be valid that is not going to trigger the 20th Amendment. Nothing in the Constitution supports a do-over.

It wouldn't be a do-over. It would be declaring the seat vacant due to the President and Vice President Elect having failed to qualify in hindsight due to fraud and coverup.

The Congress would then name an Acting President until a President shall have qualified. That could mean that the Acting President remains in office until the 2024 election, when a President will have qualified.

I was coupling this with the discussion of "fraud vitiates every thing" from the Supreme Court's Throckmorton ruling.

Even though the ruling in Throckmorton was against reopening the decision based on a late discovery of a fraudulent land grant, the opinion first laid out a series of conditions that must exist for a fraud to overturn a prior ruling.

The Court discussed whether the ruling bodies acted in good faith but simply didn't recognize the fraud, or whether agents with proceedings responsibility for one side or the other were active in perpetuating the fraud on the ruling body to get the result they wanted.

In the case of Fulton County, Georgia, from the video it looks like the elections officials were the ones who cleared the counting rooms of observers, then ballot stuffed and then used the authority of their positions to cover up the fraud.

We don't know the extent of the fraud in Arizona yet, or the involvement of election officials, as their report hasn't come out.

In Pennsylvania, election officials are still stalling on exposing what happened there.

Those are the kinds of actions that were alluded to in the Throckmorton discussion, where people in charge of the process were the bad actors in the process.

That begs the question of whether the 20th amendment can be interpreted to allow for after-the-fact discovery of fraud such that we found out later that the President-Elect and Vice President-Elect in reality failed to qualify but we didn't know it at the time.

If so, then let the rest of the 20th amendment allow for Congress to fix the situation until the next election qualifies a President.

-PJ

213 posted on 07/23/2021 2:43:27 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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