Posted on 12/04/2020 8:28:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers claims the state cannot enforce the Constitution regarding Electors, and won’t commit to calling a legislative hearing. Speaker Bowers was one of the top Arizona legislators who on Friday called for an immediate and “expeditious” forensic audit of the Dominion voting machines and software used in Maricopa County, due to concerns that the machines may have been used to assist in massive voter fraud.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Legislative Leaders call for audit of Maricopa County election software and equipment #AZSenate #AZleg #Election @AZHouseGOP pic.twitter.com/wDlr7v0fDT
— AZSenateRepublicans (@AZSenateGOP) December 4, 2020
However, following the publication of that statement, Bowers came out with one of his own, claiming that “the rule of law” forbids the overturning of certified election results, which Arizona has already done, even if there was clear evidence of voter fraud.
“The Trump team made claims that the election was tainted by fraud, but presented only theories, not proof,” Bowers said in the statement. “If such evidence existed, the Arizona Legislature simply couldn’t do what is being asked,” referring to calls for the Arizona Legislature to take control of the state’s Electoral College votes, claiming it would require a bipartisan supermajority to even call a special session to begin to contest it.
ARIZONA: GOP Chair Kelli Ward Calls for Immediate Legislative Hearing Into Voter Fraud
He argued that current Arizona law gives the power to voters to decide who wins the election. “The law was aimed at ensuring that Arizona’s electors would remain faithful to the vote of the people,” Speaker Bowers claimed, saying that “nothing in the US Constitution or the decisions of the US Supreme Court even suggests that the Arizona Legilsature could retroactively appoint different electors who would cast their ballots for different candidates.”
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U.S. House Oath of Office:
I,___________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Obviously, their oath does not count.
He must have a comfortable nest.
... being mesmerized by their governors or by the grandstanding buffoons in DC.
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The voters are barely engaged via a few hashtags, let alone mesmerized, except by their TVs.
OTOH, the Deplorables are characterized by the progs as being under some sort of hypnotic coercion of Trump’s.
He even added the phrase William Barr even said there was no evidence of fraud just like the Senator in Georgia right after she watched the video of Ruby the ballot fraudster.
Exactly. Apparently, just like Orwell’s animals, all votes are equal but some votes are more equal than others.
If these states DON’T WANT TO follow the law — then neither should the President of the United States - Donald Trump.
If they want to commit fraud and lie - then cheat - to win an election — then HE STAYS IN PLACE - until the whole thing is cleaned up.
There are rules and regs that should be followed - if the Democrats don’t want to do that — then screw them - say in the White House until the whole damn thing is cleaned... and not with a cloth!
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Unless a court comes out and rules that the election was so fraudulent that the results need to be thrown out then no state legislature is going to seat their own slate of electors. They won’t have the political will to act otherwise.
So what he’s saying is even though the vote is fraudulent it will stand and AZ along with America will devolve into socialism/communism.
I’m reminded of the old saying that voters (or in this case; corrupt legislatures) can vote themselves into communism/socialism but the people have to shoot their way out with the corrupt pols being the main focus of the peoples seething rage.
Okay.
Additionally, in Bush v. Gore, decided 2000 [link], the Supreme Court said that the State Legislature’s power to select the manner for appointing electors is plenary; it may, if it chooses, select the Electors itself; and even after granting the franchise to the People to select the Electors, State Legislatures can resume the power at any time
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However,...Arizona has already done, even if there was clear evidence of voter fraud.
AZ legislators certified the illegal vote????The individual legislators put themselves on the hook?
“The Trump team made claims that the election was tainted by fraud, but presented only theories, not proof,”..
Seems Team Biden must prove the vote was legit.
He argued that current Arizona law gives the power to voters to decide who wins the election.
True.
.. “nothing in the US Constitution or the decisions of the US Supreme Court ..
The Constitution guarantees a Republic for the States. You put yourself on the hook for a criminal election.
Then again, he probably looks good in orange
All the wrong people are in politics and all the right people would never be in politics. All the wrong people are on T.V. news programs and all the right people would never be on T.V. news programs.
Everyone in public office in the U.S. takes an oath to uphold the Constitution. Is he deaf?
Among its worst decisions is one from fifty years ago that today’s social justice warriors just love. Alabama plaintiffs in Reynolds v. Sims (1964) sought 14th Amendment relief from state legislative districts with unequal populations.
Scotus: “We hold that, as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Considerations of history, economic or other group interests, or area alone do not justify deviations from the equal-population principle.” Who knew the 14th Amendment of 1868 commanded state senatorial districts of equal population?
With these words, the philosopher-kings of the Warren court tossed aside three hundred years of good governing practice. Until Reynolds, states often apportioned senatorial districts by counties.
Senator Dirksen of Illinois warned us about that USSC decision. He accurately predicted how it would affect Illinois and other states with rural vs urban situations.
Through a rogue interpretation of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, Scotus masterminds imposed a democratic republic form of government on all fifty states! Never mind the constitution simply guarantees a republican form of government, scotus illegally overruled centuries of wisdom and imposed social justice democracy instead.
Free government demands the consent of the people. Without our consent, no law is legitimate. But, when law making is entirely in the hands of the people or their representatives, the result is a democratic republic, which history has shown to be hostile to minority rights and eventually end in tyranny.
“the clear evidence of RICO crimes”
Correct, but no William Barr, supposed AG.
12/04/2020
“2h ago: Tweet: Phillip Kline, Former Attorney General of Kansas
This election’s December 8 and 14 deadlines for the selection of Electors, the assembly of the Electoral College, and the tallying of its votes, respectively, are not only elements of of a 72-year old federal statute but also have ZERO Constitutional basis.”
Thank you.
[.....claiming it would require a bipartisan supermajority to even call a special session to begin to contest it.]
False. The U.S. Constitution places the power to appoint presidential electors with state legislatures, not with state constitutions. If a legislature votes to replace its electors, then that’s what will happen.
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