"COWARDS!"
Posted on 11/30/2020 8:41:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives announced late Saturday that they will not be returning to session this year, a move that would appear to preclude any possibility of lawmakers interceding in the 2020 election.
House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Quarryville, and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, R-Bellefonte, released a joint statement saying that they would not be calling their chamber to Harrisburg on Monday, the final possible day for the 2019-20 session of the Legislature to meet.
“We are physically unable to consider any new legislation before the end of session,” they wrote in the statement. “A simple resolution takes three legislative days for consideration and a concurrent resolution takes five legislative days to move through both chambers, which means we do not have the time needed to address any new resolutions in our current session.”
Article III, Section 4 of the state constitution requires that bills be considered on three different days by each chamber. A simple resolution originates from a single chamber, while a concurrent resolution must move through both.
After Monday, there can be no further meetings of the Legislature this year. Article II, Section 4, decrees that the 2021-22 session of the Legislature will begin on the first Tuesday of January, which will be Jan. 5, 2021.
Given that the House won’t meet before the Electoral College gathers to pick the next president Dec. 14, President Donald Trump’s hopes that state lawmakers in Pennsylvania would step in and choose electors appear to be dashed.
Trump and his allies have alleged that presumed President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Nov. 3 election was the result of widespread fraud, including in Pennsylvania. He tweeted that Republican-controlled legislatures in the states where he disputed the results should hold votes to pick a new slate of electors.
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The Constitution of the US differs. The legislature can get together whenever they want.
They don't want to.
Never let yourself get into a position where you have to rely on the GOP to make a courageous move that is politically risky. It's not going to work out for you.
Dereliction
Call a special session.
Dominion must pay “REEL GOOOOD”.
They’re hiding behind the couch waiting for Trump to go away.
Who writes this BS a five year old? If the courts show there was inconsistencies in the election they have to choose the electors or risk going to jail for not acting.
"COWARDS!"
I have never seen so many cowards, slime balls, weasels, worms, scum sucking parasites work together to destroy the country that served them so well.
in the constitutional role of the state legislatures... it has been determined that they are untethered from state law, in performance of their constitutional duty.
in that aspect, the state legislatures are for one task only, part of the federal governmental structure... via article two. in that role, the federal union consists of not only the three main branches of government, but of the state legislatures as the key foundation and ultimate originators of the Executive branch. a fourth but temporary branch if you will.
in this domain only , the state houses are more tightly coupled to the federal government, than the “separation of powers” scholars would typically assent to.
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A simple majority can call the House and Senate to work, and in a day pass a resolution, and cause a state’s electors to basically be held. And it is binding.
Use that template: WI, MI, PA, GA, AZ, NV, VA and NM.
Rotten cowards.
The insurrection act. Trump needs approval by the last branch of government that isn’t completely corrupted.
NO SPINE GOP
Cowards don’t want to meet.
On even numbered years, the terms of all State representative and one half of State senators in the Pennsylvania General Assembly expire on November 30.
Hard to be charged for dereliction or cowardice when you’re no longer in office, when your term expires before you can even bring a resolution to the floor
Fake News.
I watched all of the PA hearings.
These Republican legislators are pissed.
Eff all you idiots and your fake news.
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