Posted on 12/22/2020 2:50:23 PM PST by rxsid
Pence May Reject Biden’s Fraudulent Electors
Firebrand and freedom fighter Boris Epshteyn, a Trump 2020 adviser, is working overtime through the holidays to legally prove election fraud and rightfully overturn the results, namely, in Arizona.
Epshteyn, a regular guest on Steve Bannon’s “War Room,” said during his latest appearance on the number one political podcast in the country, that Vice President Mike Pence may reject the slate of electors he finds fraudulent during a joint session of Congress on January 6.
Boris was responding to a question about how President Trump can still prevail.
“So when the time comes on January 6…” the Vice President can count the “correct electors…the electors based on the most legal votes,” Epshteyn said on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “Let not forget that a week ago today, the Trump electors were sent to Congress…along with the Biden electors,” he continued. Epshteyn later said the Trump team is prepared to fight well past January 6 if Congress cannot certify a winner.
This is significant since Vice President Mike Pence is tasked with reading each states’ electors into the official record during the Joint Session of Congress on January 6.
Some legal scholars have argued that where there are disputes over electors, the vice president has the legal authority to read into the record only that slate of electors which he believes is correct.
There’s discrepancy between legal scholars who say the vice president has no such power and may only read the slate of electors transmitted to the Congress by state officials. The answer to who wields this power or not falls within the open question of law that must be decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
SCOTUS has never ruled on this issue in history. However, if Pence rejects some of Joe Biden’s electors, this could be the first time in history the highest court in the nation resolves this question.
And I am praying that this would be so.
That’s encouraging.
In 1876, when the nation went to the polls to elect Grant’s successor, Democratic candidate Samuel Tilden, governor of New York, emerged with a lead of more than 260,000 popular votes. But Tilden had amassed only 184 electoral votes—one shy of the number needed to defeat his Republican opponent, Governor Rutherford B. Hayesof Ohio. Returns from three states (Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina) were in dispute, with both sides claiming victory. Together, the states represented a total of 19 electoral votes, which along with one disputed elector from Oregon would be enough to swing the election Hayes’s way. The U.S. Constitution provided no way of resolving the dispute, and now Congress would have to decide.
Pence as president of the senate preside over congress.
The GOPe thinks they already solved the Trump problem.
Arizona is close and appears ready to take action.
Georgia is under an assault right now after the State Judiciary Report highlighting all the problems and says let’s get the party started.
The pressure is building nicely and in Wisconsin the Trump campaign is identifying scores of problematic absentee ballot “invalid” voters.
They need to exceed 20K and they likely will.
This is not that.
You can hold out hope for Pence to save the day. Maybe he will
Either the State Legislatures act, and/or the Court acts, or Trump unloads a bombshell...... or Biden becomes President.
BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani Drops a Bomb on The War Room - Says Arizona Lawmakers will Likely Vote Wednesday to Certify President Trump as Winner @RudyGiuliani #WarRoom via @gatewaypundit https://t.co/TnctFbUTGh— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) December 23, 2020
“The U.S. Constitution provided no way of resolving the dispute, and now Congress would have to decide.”
LOL! But the US Constitution DID provide a way of resolving the dispute, the way that was used: the Houses of Congress decided.
Well he just lobbed another one at them by calling them on the carpet over the disgraceful Covid bill.
That isn’t going to go over well. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Cant wait to see the response from Mitch
Not buying this.
I expect it has to be voted on.
This brings in Dr. Franklin’s “uncharted waters” discussion as it pertains to competing set of electors... He has opined on this several times.
Wake me when they do or when any other legislature does.
He is a company man.
I hope he proves me wrong.’
I would not count on that.
Good response!
Yep, a concessionaire.
Cocaine Mitch already on the hot seat. Pelosi’s head imploded and she rolled right over passing the grenade to Mitch.
Pelosi just wants to preserve the pork at this point.
Arizona is acting. They are within range on the vote to take it.
Weak response!
I would get great satisfaction at Arizona sticking it to Cindy Mccain and voting for Trump versus who she chose to support.
“The second set of electors will require the state legislatures to certify them in order for this to have a chance.”
I thought they already did, hence the headlines about GOP electors.
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