If it happens it has to have a big buildup. this is water torture.
Too many chickens roosting in the state legislatures.
Praying that the cowardly Republicans can come through for us
I firmly believe that every judge,every elected official and every civil service employee in the country has those riots in the *front* of their minds...not the back. That would mean that everybody was called upon to address the Rat Party fraud would say to him/herself "if I do the right thing here there will be thugs following my family and thugs throwing firebombs at my house".
Other than the President himself I don't think there's a single person in this country who's prepared to pay that price to do what's right.
I Agree, and have said since the beginning of this nightmare that the individual Legislatures can DECLARE the Certified Electors VOID and send New ones or tell Congress the State is in a deadlocked dispute and NO Electors will be Appointed.
“ While Republicans hold the majority in both houses, guaranteeing a Trump decision in each case is foolhardy. ”
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Wait...what????
Article was good until that point.
State legislatures will do NOTHING - they have no guts and/or are compromised. Next question: does Mike Pence have the guts to toss the votes of those 6 states, or just count the Trump slates; I think not.
Pence will follow the Constitution. The slate of electors by the GOP-led majority will be the only ones counted. The House will vote and Trump is your next president.
It isn’t that hard. Riots? We already have them. Then the Insurrection Act comes into play and the grass gets mowed.
Too many problems contained within the article.
First, the Constitution is clear that Congress alone has the authority to set the date the Electors meet and vote. That date has passed. 2nd issue is that the author gives Pence, as president of the Senate, far more powers in this matter then he actually has and the fact that only the votes from the electors certified by the states will be opened and counted. Each state has laws in place that spell ut how, where and when their Electors meet on the day appointed by Congress. No votes from slates of “electors” that fail to met state law will be counted. Furthermore, it is the House and Senate, not VP Pence, that settles all disputes.
It is rather disconcerting that people here who are supposedly in favor of limited government would like to invent in a state legislature the power to override a concuded vote.
The gutless Repukes aren’t going to lift a finger to save the Republic... they want it destroyed just the same as the Demonic Party; sadly they’re too stupid to see that once they go along with the Demonic scum, they’re next.
If you think they are going to rescue him now you need to put down the bath salts.
Well 7 states have sent an alternative slate of electors so we shall see what transpires.
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Then they came for the small business owners, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a small business owner.
Then they came for the Conservatives, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Conservative.
Then they came for the Republican politicians — and there was no one left to speak for them.
Excellent explanation.
I doubts about “the president of the Senate, VP Pence, could then declare that Trump has won, since he has a majority of the actual votes. If he chooses to be less political, he could choose to say there is no winner, since no one has 270 votes.”
The Electoral Votes are reduced by the state’s allocation for elections “in dispute”. And it raises the question, are UNLAWFUL elections, for failing to follow state election laws, subject to losing their representation in the Electoral College as well?
Procedure in Senate
I think millions feel like me, even if today they don’t know it, and that is that “IF” I see TOTAL GUTLESSNESS on the part of the Republicans January 6, and we, IN EFFECT, lose our country to the Marxists, I will never donate a penney or vote for a Republican again. Indeed, I will come to despising the Republicans worse than I do the Democrats!
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN FREEPERS! I DID !!!
A SCENARIO
Mike Pence understands he will never be President. He could become an American hero by doing the right thing with the electoral votes, and resigning after Inauguration. That would show he was not acting out of personal interest.
Trump then names a new VP, who must be confirmed by both houses. Ford replaced Agnew with an overwhelming vote in each house. But what if the Dems do not approve the VP choice and keeps Nancy a heartbeat away.