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“We Don’t Have to Live with a Fraudulent Election” – Legal Scholar John Eastman Says State Legislature Has Authority to Replace Electors due to Fraudulent ResultsVIDEO
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 7/19/2021 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 07/19/2021 10:27:55 AM PDT by bitt

Attorney and legal scholar John Eastman joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Monday morning.

Steve and John Eastman discussed Arizona Senate President Karen Fann’s OAN interview over the weekend. Fann suggested that the Arizona Senate does not have the authority to replace the electors in the state of Arizona.

Eastmen told Steve Bannon: “We can point to Section 2 of Title 3 of the United States Code that says when a state has had an election and has failed to make a choice on the day that was prescribed by law, meaning the choice that was made, the assumption is it was fraudulently given because of the illegal votes, the electors can be made on a subsequent date in such manner as the legislature in some state may direct.”

But there is a lot of work to be done before this could ever happen.


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KEYWORDS: alternatereality; electionfraud; fakewaypundit; january6th; johneastman
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To: Lurkinanloomin

you’re making this harder than it needs to be; I had to read that a couple of times before I figured it out.

what do you reckon “this mess” is? I think “this mess” is the very real possibility that they could pass permanent, structural change that would destroy our individual liberties because we lost our firewall in the senate. what do you think “this mess” is? have I got the wrong “mess”?

which brings us back to georgia; you’ve happily, if not joyously, traded the mildly annoying geriatric republican and the fawning trump chick for reverend bomb thrower and the 30 year old wenis with ears — both hyper extremist liberal radicals. you seem supremely pleased with yourself over these two (arguably) rino skins nailed to the wall. but I think the two dead rinos are at the very core of “this mess”. so, now I’m confused as to how giving two senate seats away in a fit of petulance makes the country a better place.

as I said, I must be thinking about the wrong “mess”.

and you were right about the porn thread. hoooo doggy.


61 posted on 07/19/2021 12:29:16 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: AZJeep
Actually, Arizona Republican electors voted for Trump in the same day. Just to take care about this! So were Republican electors in Nevada, and many more states I cannot recall now. Somebody can decide which ones count.

These were irrelevant under the 12th Amendment because they were never certified by a state governing body and submitted to Congress for the January 6th joint session. This is where the legislatures of these states failed miserably.

62 posted on 07/19/2021 12:29:57 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
In any event, figure out if you should be calling your US Senators and telling them to clean out their desks!

Well, just the ones who were elected / re-elected in 2020 (and since) who determined the Electoral College 'winner', and whose state has declared an UNLAWFUL election (due to fraud). And any run-off elections for fed offices based on a state's UNLAWFUL federal election.

63 posted on 07/19/2021 12:36:59 PM PDT by RideForever (Know Islam, No Peace. Know Peace, No Islam.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Sorry to disappoint, but I did not want the two GA Senators to lose.
The GOP thought they could get rid of Trump and keep the Senate and the Democrats double crossed them.

The “mess” we are in is our nation hanging by a thread because Bush League Republicans that you advocate for have been importing a permanent Democrat majority for 30 years.
Now the freshly re-elected ones are working to give the Democrats that permanent majority on a silver platter called amnesty that Flimsey Grahanesty has voted for THREE times already.
When some one tells you they are a traitor, it’s time to stop voting for them.


64 posted on 07/19/2021 12:37:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

wait. I could have sworn you were all in on the boycott. death to rinos, to hell with the consequences, kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out. no? are you sure? any chance that you’re experiencing buyer’s remorse?

roy moore? another senate seat down the drain? any of this ringing a bell?

if the democrats had really been sitting on a 30 year majority, and the uniparty jagoffs had not been soing something productive to obstruct, we would be france right now.

and I’m equally sorry to disappoint, but I have as much disdain for spineless moderates as I do for hysterical purists.


65 posted on 07/19/2021 12:51:21 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Alberta's Child

No... that refers to a uniform protocol, a run-up time limit. It does not mean you have a single set day to ‘choose’ electors. It means there would be a cut-off day in which you must have completed the appointment/validation and resolved any challenges to any appointment by legal remedy of all electors that qualify to be an official delegate that has been given authorization to cast a vote in their respective state capitals that will be the same day for all states.

If a state legislature has not yet chosen by a statutory date(a prescribed deadline) and validated all entitled delegates ... then any delegate that failed will not be included in the vote tally once the votes have been cast in the state capital.

This does not mean a one-time shot. It simply means a set of rules in the processing of delegate votes.

State legislature delegates CAN challenge the joint session vote in congress by petition to amend their delegate votes. It is not cast in stone after the meeting of the delegates on election day in the state capitals.

So no... there is no constitutional same-day choosing and you have not shown me that it is imposed by the constitution... it’s not.


66 posted on 07/19/2021 12:51:28 PM PDT by Bellagio
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To: RideForever

“What remains is quo warranto “

That’s the one Lindell has mentioned in relation to the voting machine issue. Basically Biden has to prove that he is legally sitting in that position.

Personally, I don’t know why they don’t refer to the SCOTUS decision in the 1800s that “Fraud vitiates everything”.


67 posted on 07/19/2021 12:55:28 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: RideForever

I realize I wasn’t clear in that post.

I was trying to suggest to the Arizona legislature that they can fix who they sent to the US Senate, if, as seems likely the winner(s) did not actually win this election, and they should do it ASAP.

The Dems are making the most of their illegal control of all of the Federal Government while these legislatures are playing pickup-stix.


68 posted on 07/19/2021 12:56:15 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“there is no legal procedure to permit a ‘re-vote” of the Electoral College.”

Is there a procedure that forbids it? We’re in uncharted territory here, for sure.


69 posted on 07/19/2021 12:56:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: Luke21

The Democrats can steal anything they want and make up rules as they go along.


Yes, Democrats are free to steal any election they want because there is no political party substantively opposing them.

Don’t get in the weeds on this one. It’s not our job to count hanging chads or whatever for months on end. We elected Republicans to defend us against the stolen election and they failed miserably. All of them. In fact they certified it and disenfranchised us. Sorry, that bell is not going to be unrung.


70 posted on 07/19/2021 1:02:02 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: MayflowerMadam

You can revote all you want.
But this is how a president is removed.

Article II Section IV says how a president is to be removed.

Everything else is magical thinking to make us feel better !

Concentrate on fixing the voting intgerity problem !
Everything else is a diversion from that!


71 posted on 07/19/2021 1:06:20 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Alberta's Child

Sorry but I’m going to have to insist that you read the 10th amendment. Any state can recall its electors or simply declare the election invalid and call a revote.


72 posted on 07/19/2021 1:06:27 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: redgolum
Thing about it. Otherwise every US Presidential election going forward will be contested and overthrown in court. You will make the SCOTUS kingmakers.

Think about this. Every election forward will be determined by voter fraud if you don't allow enough time for audits and to create a case.

The fraudsters are the kingmakers.

73 posted on 07/19/2021 1:08:34 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Reily
You can revote all you want. But this is how a president is removed. Article II Section IV says how a president is to be removed.

Those methods for removal are for legitimately elected presidents. Never, under common law for any case, are proven fraudsters given the benefits of their fraud.

74 posted on 07/19/2021 1:13:12 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: MayflowerMadam

There isn’t anything expressly prohibiting having 5 Presidents simultaneously either. Does that mean the Constitution permits it?


75 posted on 07/19/2021 1:16:51 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Sorry but I’m going to have to insist that you read the 10th amendment. Any state can recall its electors or simply declare the election invalid and call a revote.

They can. And they can call a revote. And the other states are free to ignore them. At the very least, the Senate would have to agree to it. Not going to happen. Any state can recall their electors. They can also declare that they have a kajillion electors. It doesn't really matter what they claim. One state doesn't get to change the rules.

As I said earlier, the Rust Belt states that voted for Trump in 2016 can change their mind in 2018. I don't think that would go over well with you, though.
76 posted on 07/19/2021 1:17:56 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin; Reily; MayflowerMadam; RideForever
In order for the Quo Warranto argument to work, it has to be coupled with the 20th amendment's "failure to qualify" standard. Once "failure to qualify" is determined, then the 20th amendment has a procedure for Congress to appoint an "acting President" until a "President has qualified."

If Congress is willing to make the argument that:

  1. “Fraud vitiates everything” and there is no statute of limitations on "failure to qualify" if it is proven that there was fraud, and
  2. the cover-up of fraud by election officials was done with the purpose of concealing the fraud until after inauguration day, then
  3. there is a process in the 20th amendment to declare the offices vacant and Congress can appoint an "acting President" until a President "shall have qualified."

My plan:


By using the 20th amendment to declare the office vacant due to failure to qualify instead of vacating the office due to impeachment, death, or resignation, the procedure laid out in the 20th amendment to fill the vacancy would apply (which bypasses the Speaker ascending to the Presidency).

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.
Consider the clause "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..."

The conjunction "or" separates two distinct cases: 1) when the President is not chosen by the inauguration date, or 2) when the President "failed to qualify." I'm arguing to disconnect the "failed to qualify" from "chosen by the time fixed..."

"Failed to qualify" due to a conspiracy to defraud would have no statute of limitations, and Congress should ex post facto declare the office vacant on the grounds of the 20th amendment, name the Acting President, and then pass a law to qualify a new President.

  1. Republicans retake control of Congress due to mass calls for Democrat resignations for ill-gotten wins.
  2. 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.
  3. Via the 20th amendment and Article II Section I Clause 3, 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.

For this to work, someone has to argue that the "failed to qualify" has no statute of limitations, and that fraud and cover-up (“Fraud vitiates everything”) supersedes any requirement to discover the conspiracy in the few weeks between the election and inauguration.

-PJ

77 posted on 07/19/2021 1:18:06 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Reily

“Concentrate on fixing the voting intgerity problem !”

No; that’s not good enough. This needs to be fixed, one way or another.


78 posted on 07/19/2021 1:21:14 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (While the foundations are being destroyed, what are the righteous doing?)
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To: FreeReign

The US Constitution is above common law. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land not common law.


79 posted on 07/19/2021 1:21:44 PM PDT by Reily
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To: MayflowerMadam

That’s exactly what we need to do waste energy, time and money on something that can’t be done !

In my mind that’s exactly what the left wants us to do.


80 posted on 07/19/2021 1:24:45 PM PDT by Reily
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