Posted on 12/09/2020 8:50:26 AM PST by Olog-hai
Americans waiting for Republicans in Congress to acknowledge Joe Biden as the president-elect may have to keep waiting until January as GOP leaders stick with President Donald Trump’s litany of legal challenges and unproven claims of fraud.
Tuesday’s deadline for states to certify their elections — once viewed as a pivot point for Republicans to mark Biden’s win — came and went without much comment. Next week’s Dec. 14 Electoral College deadline may produce just a few more congratulatory GOP calls to Biden.
Increasingly, GOP lawmakers say the Jan. 6 vote in Congress to accept the Electoral College outcome may be when the presidential winner becomes official. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has signaled Jan. 20 as the certain date when the country is “going to have the swearing-in of the next president.”
The result is a risky standoff like none other in U.S. history. The refusal to agree upon the facts of the election threatens to undermine voter confidence, chisel away at the legitimacy of Biden’s presidency and restack civic norms in still-unknowable ways. …
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There is no law requiring it that I know of... We need to start the impeachment now: same treatment
Ah, so you have to prove it first, then you can investigate and litigate the matter, got it.
“Verdict first, trial afterward!” — Queen of Hearts
Biteme-Ho has not won. No sentient being would ever say they won. They lied, stole, fraudulently acted, but won? Never.
Some people may never say it.....74 million (we know of) for starters
How about never!
Perhaps the Supreme Court will have better plans.
USSC will concur prior to 1 Jan.
The left will riot for the next 4 years.
From RedState's column yesterday:
This raises the point that I made in my article yesterday — how is the Court prepared to respond if it were to grant the injunction against the Pennsylvania state defendants, and on January 6, 2021, the Joint Session of Congress nevertheless counts the slate of Electors already certified and sent by the Pennsylvania Governor for Joe Biden?
In other words, even if SCOTUS asks for a new slate of electors to be appointed by the state legislature, the ultimate authority for admitting them to the Electoral College rests with Congress, and they may still prefer to seat Biden's electors. Then what will SCOTUS do?
Yep.
GRopen has not “won”.
Only the idiotic troll freepers who showed up after November 3 on FR says he did..
They found someone who is almost worse than obama...certainly as crooked.
If senate holds he will be the weakest potus in history if he takes office. My prediction
Where is this date cast in stone?
“The result is a risky standoff like none other in U.S. history. The refusal to agree upon the facts of the election threatens to undermine voter confidence, chisel away at the legitimacy of Biden’s presidency and restack civic norms in still-unknowable ways. …
That's interesting. I know the citizens can vote whichever way and the Electoral College electors aren't bound to the majority's preference, but I didn't know the Congress can choose which electors they can accept.
That ship sailed long before election day.
I’ll never say that Biden won.
He may be installed, but he did not win.
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