As of this date the 2020 Presidential states’ electoral vote are by law to be accepted by Congress….
306 for Biden….232 for Trump…..
Donald Trump’s more than 50 legal challenges to the state’s votes have failed….
(Trump CAN still pursue more but they have less than a remote chance to succeed )
No judge anywhere will entertain chan going the votes of the American people…
No Republican Governor or other official will change anything for the whinning Republican President…
In his own way?
Donald J. Trump has strengthen the centuries old America Democracy with its choice of the next President irregardless of partisan politics….
“What federal law requires is that if a state has completed its post-election certification by Dec. 8, Congress is required to accept those results,” said Rebecca Green, an election law professor at the William & Mary law school in Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Electoral College is a creation of the Constitution, but Congress sets the date for federal elections and, in the case of the presidency, determines when presidential electors gather in state capitals to vote.
In 2020, that date is Dec. 14. But Congress also set another deadline, six days before electors meet, to insulate state results from being challenged in Congress.
By the end of the day, every state is expected to have made its election results official, awarding 306 electoral votes to Biden and 232 to President Donald Trump.
The attention paid to the normally obscure safe harbor provision is a function of Trump’s unrelenting efforts to challenge the legitimacy of the election. He has refused to concede, made unsupported claims of fraud and called on Republican lawmakers in key states to appoint electors who would vote for him even after those states have certified a Biden win….
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jamesb says
Turning on their own?
…Tribe and more than 1,000 current and former attorneys, retired judges and justices, law professors, former bar association presidents and concerned citizens have signed an open letter calling on bar associations to disavow the Trump campaign attorneys’ conduct, and on disciplinary authorities to investigate, the advocacy group Lawyers Defending American Democracy announced this week….
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