Posted on 11/30/2020 8:43:05 PM PST by 11th_VA
President Donald Trump's arsenal for overturning the election will soon be down to one final, desperate maneuver: pressing his Republican allies on Capitol Hill to step in and derail Joe Biden’s presidency.
Although the Electoral College casts the official vote for president on Dec. 14, it’s up to Congress to certify the results a few weeks later. And federal law gives individual members of the House and Senate the power to challenge the results from the floor — a rarely used mechanism meant to be the last of all last resorts to safeguard an election...
Here’s how Trump’s defenders in Congress may take a final shot ...
The framers declared that the presidential election isn’t official until lawmakers certify the winner. The voters, on Nov. 3, picked 306 electors for Biden and 232 for Trump. Those electors will cast their formal votes for president on Dec. 14.
An obscure 1887 law called the Electoral Count Act, and several subsequent updates, spell out the process, setting Jan. 6 after a presidential election as the official certification date and outlining vague, complicated procedures.
On that day, the House and Senate meet in a joint session at 1 p.m. — just three days after a newly constituted Congress is sworn in. One of their first orders of business is to pass judgment on the Electoral College vote.
That same federal law also gives a tiny number of lawmakers enormous power to challenge the results.
If a single House member and a single senator join forces, they can object to entire slates of presidential electors. They must do so in writing and provide an explanation, though there are no guidelines on how detailed it must be...
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Save. Not “overturn.”
Beat me to it. Nothing’s going to be “overturned” at all.
The true outcome of the election will be revealed.
Direct link to the law:
Will anyone stand against the fraud?
https://govtrackus.s3.amazonaws.com/legislink/pdf/stat/24/STATUTE-24-Pg373.pdf
If they could object and successfully eliminate individual slates of electors totaling at least 37 electoral votes, that would put Biden under the majority. Then the house state delegations would vote.
These punks in office are all paid for. This is not the USA any of us in combat fought for.
That article basically says if the House and the Senate disagree on the choice of electors for a state, then it would go to what laws that particular state passed to handle the dispute of choice of electors. But I think the originalists on the Supreme Court will stick with the constitution, not the laws of a State to decide the electors.
“Use every arrow in our quiver”
Just like Pelosi. LOL
Politico appears not to understand what is going on. But soon they will.
Fake news.
Will anyone stand against the fraud?
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No one did on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009
He has a few, not many, but a few.
Interesting... this article makes no mention of the Supreme Court’s part in all of this.
He does. He has faithful allies in the Senate and the House.
Don’t paint with too broad a brush.
Those of you who have been in combat are being pissed on by a demon rat party and a gaggle of republicants who are seeking to end The Republic of We The People. They are the enemy inside the wire, the evil scum who need eradicating.
The enemy inside the wire considers you patriots as chumps, useful tools with zero human value.
They know will line up like lemmings to vote in the next election.
“Trump’s Hill allies”
What, both of them?
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