[Alberta's Child]

He’s right not to concede but the article's premise about the process is ludicrous.

The Constitution requires a newly elected President to be inaugurated by January 20th. What does the author of this article think a state legislature was going to do between January 6th and January 20th that none of them was willing to do between Election Day and January 6th?

Any one of those legislatures could have voted to certify an alternate slate of electors before the formal Electoral College vote in mid-December of 2020. NOT A SINGLE ONE DID.

[Responsibility2nd]

In before the Pence brown nosers. Oops. AC is already here.

Figures.

[ConservativeDude]

Any one of those legislatures could have voted to certify an alternate slate of electors before the formal Electoral College vote in mid-December of 2020. NOT A SINGLE ONE DID.”

Correct.

And most controlled by republicans.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Constitution requires a newly elected President to be inaugurated by January 20th.

I think that "requires" is too strong a word, as the 20th amendment has provisions for inaugurating an "Acting President" if the President Elect "fails to qualify."

Amendment 20

If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

The Constitution has a clear process for handling the case where a President is not decided in time for inauguration.

This is why I've been floating an idea that is based on the 20th amendment.

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As long as we're dreaming, here is a possible Constitutional solution if the stolen election is proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

1. Mass calls for resignation of key Democrats in the House of Representatives. Special elections fill those seats with Republicans.
2. Democrat Senators who won in stolen swing states are hounded to resign. Governors appoint the actual winning candidate to the seats.
3. Congress invokes the 20th amendment and declares ex post facto that the President-Elect did not qualify, should not have been sworn into office, and declares the Presidency and Vice-Presidency vacant. This is not an ex post facto law, as it is already in the 20th amendment. The only question is arguing the legitimacy of declaring no statue of limitations on "failing to qualify" and of not letting criminals profit from their crimes (fruit of the poisonous tree).
4. Via the 20th amendment, Congress declares the actual winner (President Trump) to fill the vacancy as "Acting President" until the office can be filled by someone who qualifies.
5. Via the 20th amendment, Congress passes a law moving the Presidential election up to 2022, and that it will forever be on a new four-year schedule beginning in 2022. This will satisfy Presidential term limits, as Trump will fill less than half of Biden's illegitimate term and then get his own second term. He won't be penalized for losing part of his term because of Democrat criminality.
6. The asterisk in the history books explaining the change in the Presidential cycle will forever be a stain on the nation caused by Democrats, along with slavery, Jim Crow, Plessy v Ferguson, and opposition to the Civil Rights of 1964.

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-PJ

[lepton]

He’s right not to concede but the article’s premise about the process is ludicrous.

Any one of those legislatures could have voted to certify an alternate slate of electors before the formal Electoral College vote in mid-December of 2020. NOT A SINGLE ONE DID.

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At least one asked for the vote to be sent back while they did the review you are referencing.

[erkelly]

The constitution does not require an inauguration in January. The original presidential term expired sometime in March but if there is no president elect at that time, the speaker temporarily takes on the duties of president until one is elected. Probably someone else here remembers more precisely the procedure when a new president is not elected when the old president’s term expires.

[precisionshootist]

Any one of those legislatures could have voted to certify an alternate slate of electors before the formal Electoral College vote in mid-December of 2020. NOT A SINGLE ONE DID. “

Yup, it turns out all those safeguards that prevent a fraudulent president that we learned about since the fifth grade ALL failed. We have been living a delusion of Constitutional protections for a long long time. In a nutshell when put to the test, the entire system failed.

There is no fix for this. The federal government can not be reformed.

It’s like spoiled meat in the fridge. How do you fix that spoiled chicken? The answer of course is you don’t, it’s rotten and will only get worse. The only fix is to throw it out.

I think what we have learned is Trump came along far too late. He was never going to drain the swamp as that would mean replacing the entire federal government.

It doesn’t make any difference who we send to DC, they are outnumbered a thousand to one. State level elections are the only thing that matters from here out.