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Trump claims ex-VP Mike Pence had power to overturn election
NY Daily News ^ | 01/31/2022 | Dave Goldiner

Posted on 01/31/2022 8:57:29 AM PST by sam_whiskey

Meet Donald Trump, the constitutional scholar.

The twice-impeached former president is claiming that the bipartisan effort to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887 proves that ex-Vice President Mike Pence had the legal right to overturn the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost.

“If the Vice President (Mike Pence) had “absolutely no right” to change the Presidential Election results in the Senate ... how come the Democrats and RINO Republicans are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not allow the Vice President to change the results of the election?” Trump asked.

Without providing any facts or legal precedent, Trump suggested the effort to clarify the 135-year-old statute means Pence would have been within his rights to reject the results of the electoral votes cast by the states on Jan. 6, 2021.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020; 30pence; 30shekels; biglie; donaldtrump; mikepence; pence; thebiglie; trump
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To: Jim Noble
Do you believe that rulings such as the one you wanted him to make can be appealed to the floor? Yes or no?

Don't care. It was his *DUTY* to make the process as nasty and unpleasant as possible while doing everything he could to interfere with a hijacked election process.

Whether he ultimately succeeds or fails is irrelevant to what his actions should have been.

61 posted on 01/31/2022 10:12:55 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: PeachyKeen

Probably a bad idea to make outrageous statements based on ‘what you heard’.. Probably on the internet too.


62 posted on 01/31/2022 10:15:18 AM PST by Houserino
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To: Zenjitsuman
When states want to have an alternate slate of electors because of voter fraud, Pence should have sent the decision back to the states for investigation of fraud, a canvas of votes and audits.

When a State Legislature wants to appoint a slate of Electors at variance with procedures in place before the popular vote, how do they do it? (they vote)

Did any State Legislature do that before or after January 6 2021? (no)

Were there any Electors whose votes were counted that were NOT given certificates of ascertainment? (no).

So what are you talking about here?

You propose that a state or states "wanted" to have an alternate slate of electors. Name one state, or all of them, that "wanted" that, and tell us how them "wanting" that was made known to the nation?

You can't, because it never happened, not in one state, not ever.

63 posted on 01/31/2022 10:16:34 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: McGavin999

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/15


64 posted on 01/31/2022 10:17:16 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Skywise
Note that both the Democrats and Republicans are looking into writing a law to disallow that going forward.

That would basically be to repeal US Code Title 3 Chapter 1.

-PJ

65 posted on 01/31/2022 10:24:19 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Houserino

Good grief. I made no outrageous statement. Get over it!


66 posted on 01/31/2022 10:24:40 AM PST by PeachyKeen
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To: stanne
Trump neither said nor suggested tgat pence could overturn the election

"“Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!” Trump wrote."

67 posted on 01/31/2022 10:28:46 AM PST by semimojo
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To: Political Junkie Too

No - the goal was to restrict the VP to essentially being a rubber stamp of the electoral votes and not allowing the process to be suspended.


68 posted on 01/31/2022 10:28:48 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Macoozie
“He “shall” count them. Very clear.”

It would be very clear, IF it were in Article II, Amendment XII, or anywhere else in the Constitution - but it isn't.

69 posted on 01/31/2022 10:29:15 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: sam_whiskey

Weak Pence - bump for later...


70 posted on 01/31/2022 10:30:19 AM PST by indthkr
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To: Pete Dovgan

they were picked for him, he had no help what so ever from the bureaucracy or the gop. 99.9% of the people working with/for him were setting him up for failure. it’s wonder he got anything done


71 posted on 01/31/2022 10:34:45 AM PST by Jeff Vader ( )
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To: semimojo

Oy


72 posted on 01/31/2022 10:35:24 AM PST by stanne
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Has there ever been such a blatant Presidential election theft?

Ask the Kennedy's. But when you get someone like Nixon who is the patron saint of Republican cowardliness and would never stand up for corruption and fight, Trump scares the living crap out of both parties. To the rest of those who say theres no proof of fraud, http://2000mules.com/

73 posted on 01/31/2022 10:37:50 AM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian ( 2022 - VOTE THE BUMS OUT —— ALL OF THEM! RE-ELECT NO ONE!!)
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To: The MAGA-Deplorian

Because nobody else had enough guts to fight it, it should never be fought?


74 posted on 01/31/2022 10:39:54 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Sacajaweau
his job was to read them into the record...nothing more.

US Code Title 3 Chapter 1 3 U.S. Code § 15 - Counting electoral votes in Congress:

Congress shall be in session on the sixth day of January succeeding every meeting of the electors. The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives at the hour of 1 o’clock in the afternoon on that day, and the President of the Senate shall be their presiding officer. Two tellers shall be previously appointed on the part of the Senate and two on the part of the House of Representatives, to whom shall be handed, as they are opened by the President of the Senate, all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates of the electoral votes, which certificates and papers shall be opened, presented, and acted upon in the alphabetical order of the States, beginning with the letter A; and said tellers, having then read the same in the presence and hearing of the two Houses, shall make a list of the votes as they shall appear from the said certificates; and the votes having been ascertained and counted according to the rules in this subchapter provided, the result of the same shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall thereupon announce the state of the vote, which announcement shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons, if any, elected President and Vice President of the United States, and, together with a list of the votes, be entered on the Journals of the two Houses. Upon such reading of any such certificate or paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any.

Both you and Pence left out that last part about calling for objections as a part of his responsibilities.

-PJ

75 posted on 01/31/2022 10:39:57 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Skywise
See my post #75. This is what would have to be changed.

-PJ

76 posted on 01/31/2022 10:41:12 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: DiogenesLamp
Where it says his office is required.

Making crap up as you go along again I see.

77 posted on 01/31/2022 10:43:36 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Houserino

Good grief. I made no outrageous statement. Get over it!


78 posted on 01/31/2022 10:44:08 AM PST by PeachyKeen
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To: Political Junkie Too
Both you and Pence left out that last part about calling for objections as a part of his responsibilities.

But that does not say that Pence himself can object and refuse to recognize the votes sent in by the states.

79 posted on 01/31/2022 10:45:08 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Political Junkie Too

I posted this at Post 34.


80 posted on 01/31/2022 10:46:15 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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