Posted on 01/03/2021 3:59:13 PM PST by RandFan
"The text of the Constitution is clear. States select electors. Congress does not. Accordingly, our path forward is also clear. We mush respect the states' authority here," the statement said. "Though doing so may frustrate or immediate political objectives, we have sworn an oath to promote the Constitution above our policy goals."
The seven Republicans began their statement by expressing outrage at the "significant abuses in our election system" through "reckless" adoption of mail-in ballots leading up to the November election.
Trump and several other congressional leaders have complained of voter fraud tied to the widespread use of mail-in ballots during the pandemic, though no evidence supports claims of a rigged election.
"The people cannot trust a system that refuses to guarantee that only legal votes are cast to select its leaders," the representatives wrote. "The elections held in at least six battleground states raise profound questions, and it is a legal, constitutional, and moral imperative that they be answered."
However, they continued, "only the states have authority to appoint electors, in accordance with state law. Congress has only a narrow role in the presidential election process."
The legislative body's role is to count the electors submitted by states, not to determine which electors should have been sent, the representatives said.
Massie, along with Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D.; Ken Buck, R-Colo.; Mike Gallagher, R-Wis.; Nancy Mace, R-S.C.; Tom McClintock, R-Cal.; and Chip Roy, R-Texas, said Congress will have no authority to influence the outcome of the election unless a state decides to send a new slate of votes to Congress before Wednesday.
"To take action otherwise — that is, to unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process — would amount to stealing power from the people and the states. It would, in effect, replace the electoral college with Congress, and in doing so strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant."
Some of the most conservative members of the House have signed on to this statement.
That’s the 12th amendment is about.
These people should actually read it.
The steal from the people already happened. Doesn’t matter since the Democrats and Rhinos and Chinese already put us here. Election is invalid, follow the 12 amendment.
Idiot akways been a . trump back stabber .
Follow the money with this one .
this was all more of a foreign coup than a US Presidential election at this point
“...we have sworn an oath to promote the Constitution above our policy goals.”
“And, by god, if, by ratifying the most blatant election theft in world history (and of course the Constitution demands that we ratify a stolen presidential election) it destroys that Constitution we so revere, then so be it. We are so much more pure than the democrats who crapped all over the Constitution.”
The contradiction in this grandiose and noble document is so appalling, these people must be hideously stupid.
Why not jump up and down about the stolen election instead?
Massie is a never Trumper media whore. I can’t stand the guy. I regret voting for this empty showboat as much as my ill advised vote for Mittens.
“Congress will have no authority to influence the outcome of the election unless a state decides to send a new slate of votes to Congress before Wednesday.”
Those votes in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Wisconsin legislatures can be done Monday. Tuesday or even Wednesday morning. New slates can be on the way that fast. Things are going to move very fast over the next 68 hours.
It’s not just Massie , Buck, McClintock, Mace and Chip Roy among others...
https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1345816262438514688
And why does Trump think a few hundred thousand people in Washington D. C. will change just one vote?
Disappointed to see Ken Buck sign on to this.
no pub dare ask for money from me....but I guess they don’t need it....they get the china money....
They’re really putting their neck on the line here
Follow the money .
Campaign cash tells all .
The one mentioned are showboats .and not friends of Trump .
Democracy means more than PROCESS you fools.
You’ve turned the entire concept into a joke and made our votes meaningless and with the outright theft of this election there’s absolutely no way we have valid representation.
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This makes no logical or legal sense. If a state violates its own laws to influence a federal election that affects the rights of all the other states this gives them veto power over the legitimate will of the people. What if the Southern states had conspired to fix their election in 1860 to give Jefferson Davis a majority of the electoral votes instead of seceding ? We’d never have gotten the Emancipation Proclamation.
Sorry, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Please tweet Massie : @RepThomasMassie
I know he reads them all
They are sanctimonious prigs that lose sight of the forest in gazing at a tree. Congress is supposed to ensure that the election is fair, free and that the votes are valid. Presented with electors based on a fraudulent process they are supposed to protect the American people from foreign actors & traitors stealing the election. If this is not the case why do the electors have to be certified?
From the statement:
“If states believe there was fraud—and if they believe that such fraud affected the outcome of the election—they must, as a body, convene immediately and send us that information, along with certified electoral votes cast by a Trump slate of electors.”
I wonder if any of these characters have ever read the Constitution.
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