Posted on 01/13/2021 9:08:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) fumed at Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) for contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election last week, saying that they needed to “get out” and they “do not belong” in the Senate.
“And so, I want to be clear to Senator Ted Cruz, you do not belong in the United States Senate. I want to be clear to Senator Josh Hawley, you do not belong in the United States Senate,” AOC ranted in an hour-long Instagram Live video. “You do not belong in any democratically elected seat when you don’t, when you do not believe that that election was even legitimate, according to your self-serving claims. So get out.”
“If they had any shred of integrity, any shred of integrity about their claims, their lies really, but their claims about this election, they would take off their pin and turn it in,” she continued. “But this isn’t about the truth to them. This is about if they want to be president in 2024. Let me give you a sneak peak. You will never be president. You will never command the respect of this country. Ever. Ever. And you should resign. So should every member of Congress that voted to overturn the results of our election.”
WATCH:
AOC to @tedcruz & @HawleyMO: “You do not belong in the United States Senate … you should resign” pic.twitter.com/qB5FE0iGsd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 13, 2021
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley noted that Democrats have raised some of the same objections in the past and that “it was not constitutional arson then, and it is not that now.”
“It is the use of a federal law to raise a challenge that has been raised in past elections over important issues of voter fraud or irregularity,” Turley wrote. “As with past Democratic challenges, this one by Republicans will not succeed. However, the point of yelling ‘fire!’ is to cause panic for political purposes.”
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board recently argued that the law that allows for challenging election results is unconstitutional:
In our view this week’s exercise is also unconstitutional. The text of the original charter, elaborated by the 12th Amendment, gives state legislatures the power to appoint electors. The Vice President is charged to open the votes to be counted—nothing more.
The Electoral Count Act of 1887, which the House and Senate will act upon, is unconstitutional in giving Congress the ability to second-guess those state decisions. In stretching this law for a partisan exercise, Republicans are also giving Democrats more ammunition to use in their campaign to overturn the Electoral College in favor of a direct popular vote.
This is the fire Republicans are playing with, no matter their political calculation. Some may figure the vote Wednesday is merely symbolic; they can show solidarity with Mr. Trump’s voters and dodge a primary challenge in 2022. Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are making their own presidential calculations for 2024. But the cost of this showboating will be more political cynicism, and a precedent that Democrats are sure to exploit in the aftermath of some future close election.
Disagree.
She needs to keep it up. In fact she should get even more unhinged to the point that she becomes uncontrollable.
She’ll form the AOC party or wreak complete havoc on the Dems
Says the woman who stole tips from coworkers.
Says the woman who is named after a Conquistador.
How many cases has she argued before the Supreme Court?
I heard they’re putting 20,000 National guardsman in DC for inauguration day to protect the Capital. Wouldn’t it be something if those guardsmen followed their oath of enlistment to support and defend the constitution and openly arrested commie pigs like AOC and the rest of these bums effectively saving the constitution and the country? Round them up, throw them all in Gitmo.
She doesn’t understand the concept of a witch hunt. It doesn’t mean the witch goes hunting...
Says the woman who is named after a murderous, thieving, Conquistador..................
They are all coming from Blue states......................
Is she on her period? PMS, maybe? Or is she even capable of having one anymore..
The last time I saw a mouth like that a mare was dropping a foal.
What does she have to say about the Puerto Rican terrorists who attacked Congress once upon a time?
What does she have to say about Bill Clinton pardoning those terrorists?
Why don’t you get? Do you really think every single last person that voted for Donald Trump thinks the election was stolen? That’s tantamount to saying over 80,000,000 American voters to defund the police, because that was Biden’s vote total.
I said 101% because Trump received 74.2 million votes, not 75.
Do you think the election was stolen?
“She wants to sell Ted Cruz lamp shades and bars of soap on her twitter.”
No, on E-bay.
“The dems’ hate will be directed at WHOEVER gets the Republican nomination. It has litte to do with the person. It’s pure hatred for anyone who gets in the way of their turning this country into venezuela.”
This!
They literally announced that they conducted loyalty tests to Guard, anyone they felt wasn’t safe wasn’t deployed.
Cruz or Hawley will only become President if there is an honest election, which at this point is quite doubtful.
She needs to be censured for poor decorum, and unprofessional, inappropriate behavior for a congressional representative.
Then she needs to be taken out back to the woodshed and SPANKED.HARD.
Has she had a recent rabies shot?
She could be one of Satan’s shapeshifters. A snake.
What stage follows feral what ever it is she’s in it they need to keep a leash on her before she starts biting people.
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