Posted on 01/04/2021 8:12:08 AM PST by Red Badger
The House of Representatives and the Senate on Sunday adopted rules that outline how the counting of Electoral College votes will take place on Jan. 6.
The rules were passed without recorded votes. Instead, a voice vote was used in both chambers.
The guidance, introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), says the chambers will meet in a joint session on Jan. 6 presided over by Vice President Mike Pence.
Pence, as president of the Senate, will open “all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes,” the rules state, a nod to how seven states sent so-called competing electors, or certificates for both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, to Washington.
The certificates and papers will be opened, presented, and acted upon in alphabetical order, starting with Alabama.
This is when dozens of Republicans—50 representatives and 12 senators, according to an Epoch Times tally—are planning to object to some certificates, alleging election irregularities including voter fraud and failure to follow state election laws.
That will trigger a withdrawal from the joint session and a two-hour debate, followed by votes in each chamber. Only with a majority vote from both the House and the Senate would a challenge be upheld, which even supporters find unlikely, considering Democrats who control the House and Senate Republican leadership, including McConnell, have expressed disapproval with the plan to object.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a letter to colleagues on Sunday noted that objections can happen but said, at the end of the day, Biden “will be officially declared the next president.”
“On Monday, we will have a clearer picture of how many state votes will be subject to an objection. Our choice is not to use the forum to debate the presidency of Donald Trump,” she added.
Reps. Ron Estes (R-Kan.), Tracey Mann (R-Kan.), and Jacob LaTurner (R-Kan.) said Sunday they will join in the objections, saying in a statement that several states are “facing serious allegations of voter fraud and violations of their own state law.”
“This action is not taken lightly and comes after extensive study and research. Kansans deserve to know that all legal, and only legal, votes were counted. We hope our actions begin to restore the confidence of tens of millions of our fellow Americans that feel their sacred right to vote is under attack,” they added.
Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) also announced Sunday they’ll object.
But seven Republican representatives, including several strong Trump supporters, said they will not join in the effort, and denounced the move.
“Of the six states as to which questions have been raised, five have legislatures that are controlled by Republicans, and they all have the power to send a new slate of electoral votes to Congress if they deem such action appropriate under state law. Unless that happens between now and Jan. 6, 2021, Congress will have no authority to influence the outcome of the 2020 presidential election,” the group wrote in a statement.
“To take action otherwise—that is, to unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process—would amount to stealing power from the people and the states. It would, in effect, replace the Electoral College with Congress, and in so doing strengthen the efforts of those on the left who are determined to eliminate it or render it irrelevant.”
The weekend saw a flurry of action, with 11 senators following Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in announcing they’d join in the objections unless Congress appoints a commission to examine alleged election irregularities. The idea is modeled on the panel formed in 1877 amid a contested election.
Hawley’s Dec. 30 announcement triggered a number of House members to announce their intention to object. The number planning to do so has more than doubled since then.
A segment of Republicans are focusing on Pence’s role in the proceedings. They sued the vice president and asked a court to rule he has the “exclusive authority” to decide between dueling electors.
A judge dismissed the case and an appeals court rejected an appeal.
Pence had asked the court to dismiss the suit but said through a spokesman on Saturday that he supports efforts to challenge electoral votes.
“Vice President Pence shares the concerns of millions of Americans about voter fraud and irregularities in the last election,” Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, said in the statement sent to media outlets.
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Goods as in “evidence” of treason... to be heard in a military tribunal.
I’m sure they are in a ‘lockbox’ somewhere................
A pox on both houses.
Only with a majority vote from both the House and the Senate would a challenge be upheld, which even supporters find unlikely, considering Democrats who control the House and Senate Republican leadership, including McConnell, have expressed disapproval with the plan to object. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The vote may nopt matter, nor the rules.
Once the evidence is presented, then its a matter of accessing the 12th amendment.
This is not done at all.The Rules do not mean much, just a bump in the road.
Good luck finding small rifle primers. Powder is also getting scarce.
>>> I am still waiting for someone to explain to me how Trump presenting more evidence tonight or Wednesday will affect how the Congress will vote. They have already ignored tons of evidence, so why should another ton move them.
Personally, I think that this 117th congress will be the shortest termed congress in US history.
Trump is going after EVERYONE that is willing to sign their name to a clearly fraudulent vote. The evidence being presented is not just so they will do the right thing... the evidence is being presented to establish guilt if they don’t do the right thing.
Trump would prefer to win, but he is still loading up for bear when the vote is over.
So many people will be removed from the Senate and House that there will need to be new elections.
That is correct. That whack job Wood could release the video tapes, Roberts could confess to raping and murdering children, Pence could admit treason against the United States and then go hang himself, etc. etc. All of these wack job theories could actually come true. But so what.
It’s too late.
When do you think he is going to unleash these goods and make them for public consumption. After they once again cheat and not do the right thing they said they would do a while back then anything Trump does they are going to say it’s a last gasp effort. BUT if the evidence is so great and compelling and absolute then the media may report on it and turn there backs on the left, at some point the old school wanting to be the first one with “the scoop”. Of course Trump will be giving the interviews with Newsmax and OAN but may throw fox a bone because they are still watched, although ratings are down. Heck he may take it to CNN. I just don’t know why he would wait this long. Maybe so they couldn’t pretend to debunk it before the electoral votes are counted. But looks like they just want to push this through...
Can you help the rest of us know more details on that evidence?
There’s a chasm between belief and evidence.
it sure looks like The Fix is IN!
we are about to lose the American republic and move into the American dictatorship
very much like the Weimar Republic (and similar in respects to the Roman Republic, too)
hang on, we are in for a very very rough ride!
maybe he should just publish the Goods he has on these traitors
since there is apparently no fair tribunal left
the American people will at least know more fully what kind of commie=nazi traitors we are up against
this extra knowledge will likely help us defeat them
With all due respect, you guys are thinking way too small. This country will not survive when a hard-headed, corrupt minority in our cities willfully steals the electoral votes of entire states. Whether they’re doing it for racial solidarity, revenge, economics, indifference, or whatever other reason, as long as they continue to do it this country is doomed.
You need to stop thinking about the capacity of a large magazine and think in terms of tens of thousands, because anything less is just spit in the wind.
Win them over if you can, assuming the country has enough years remaining for that, but if that fails then more drastic action will be required, and a magazine’s worth of .556 isn’t going to do squat.
Yes, Diogenesis!
IF they WANT to stop this INSURRECTION, they CAN.
The CCP/deep state SLOBS have conducted an unconstitutional election.
Politicians who are not working for the people!
Trump WON by a landslide and every damn vote coming in after the UNCONSTITUTIONAL voting counting HALT needs to be thrown out.
It’s as simple as that!
IF they DON’T STOP this from going forward, there will be hell to pay!
GA Runoff election was compromised when Jovan Pulitzer had his team connect to an active polling machine used in the GA Senate Runoff elections. That voids the Fed Certification of the machines. It affects both Pelosi, McConnell, and Kemp along with the other Governors, Senators, and Representatives elected by the 6 battleground and 31 other states that use the Dominion malware.
Those Governors and CongressCritters need to be recused who were elected using uncertified voting machines that connected to the iNet, resulting in UNLAWFUL elections.
We need WiFi jammers..................
Maybe if his legal team had presented evidence in court, instead of at unofficial meetings in motels and on radio shows...
Why are you expecting anything else?
There are rumors Trump is getting ready to flee the country. Bit skeptical on that, but I would not be surprised to see him send his dependent children and grandchildren out.
The GOP HATED Trump as much as the Dems did. There is no political upside to supporting him.
The good, bad and the UGLY are being sifted out. That is what Trump wants. They are slowly, but surely being exposed by their actions or inactions!
Once again, logic is going to be blasted here.
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