Posted on 08/31/2023 6:12:37 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Am I understand it , every state has procedures to certify elections, and /or certify appointments to the Senate made by the governor of the state.
These credentials from the state officials are presented to the Senate when a Senator arrives in Washington DC.
There’s a procedure for the Senate to officially confirm that the credentials presented are genuine.
There may be a provision for the entire Senate to have to vote and confirm that the credentials are accepted for the new senator. I don’t know that for sure.
But we do know ,,since the Democrats control the Senate right now ,if there were a full floor vote on whether to accept a Democrat Senator nominated from Kentucky in violation of their state law , the Democrat Senate in Washington DC would vote to allow that Senator to be seated.
Then after that, legal action could proceed, but in the meantime , that Democrat Senator would be a voting member in good standing in the US Senate
It wouldn’t really matter. McConnell helps the democrats so much he may as well be one.
It's about time we got a Republican in that Senate seat.
Per KY law, the guv doesn’t get to choose, the Republican party does. At least, that’s what I think I read yesterday.
I’ve been told that the Left not having control of the Supreme Court (which could and would have happened 7 years and counting now) is “no big deal.” Just think of all of the 6-3 and 5-4 rulings on major issues that would gone 5-4 the other way for all of these years and the effect that would have had.
He’ll be fine, they don’t call him Cocaine Mitch for nothing.
That’s the very topic of the article - the issue is whether he would abide by the statute or ignore it and let the Schumer Senate decide whether to seat the appointee.
Why do they call him cocaine Mitch?
I know the Liberals call him that as well as Moscow Mitch.
It surprises me a bit, to see some conservative on Free Republic calling him names. But I honestly don’t know where that name came from. If you’d like to explain please do
in the long run it doesn’t matter.
I believe the Constitution says the Executive of a State fills vacancies in the Senate.
The Kentucky law is probably unconstitutional.
The relevant part of the 17th Amendment says, “When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.”
The Senate is full of quasi-vegetables, but the GOP could perhaps pick a new leader.
He in a likelihood has Parkinson’s disease and the freezes occur when the drug wears off. He mistimed a couple around public appearances.
I think the worry from the insider-McConnell crowd is that the state GOP party has a different view on things, and their three names probably wouldn’t be McConnell-like people.
At the point where McConnel goes into a daze at the podium and pees in his pants....that’s the end of this whole stall game.
We do have a Uniparty, but only on certain things: endless war and excessive spending are two main issues.
Ironically, Kerry lost but Ted Kennedy died a few years later during Deval Patrick's administration and Republican Scott Brown won the special election.
-PJ
Well, that is exactly why I added the last line. 🙂 👍
I was reading in The Courier-Journal this month, puke left his rag of course. But sure is indicated what he’s going to do is go to court and challenge the constitutionality of Kentucky’s law.
This is how the little bastard has done everything since he got in office. If he can’t win legislatively he goes to court, and then if possible pushes it up to the state supreme court immediately. 95% of the time they rule in his favor regardless of what the Constitution says.
“His staff has seen it plenty. Otherwise, they’d be calling 911.”
Great insight in that post.
The question is do they have the chutzpah to replace him with a “double” if necessary?
Yup.
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