They are trying to present legislation to stop how Trump and Co. tried to stop Joe Biden’s election win by using the Vice President to stop the process that had a winner using such things as state datelines, status of Congress to ok the winner, etc…..Technical lawyer type stuff….
The effort IS supported by the Republican members of the House select committee…
One would think that this will HAVE to be done before next years Midterms and done by simple majority vote….
Trump would push hard to stop this as he would probably try to rely on it again if he runs in 2024 and loses….
The effort to craft such a bill began in the House Administration Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California and vice chaired by Raskin. Both Democrats were named to the select committee, where the talks now also include Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
Raskin said no decisions had yet been made on what any legislation coming out of the committee might entail.
“The Select Committee is working hard to uncover the facts about January 6th and its causes, and we will consider many possible legislative and policy proposals as we craft our report,” the panel’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said in a statement to CNN. “One of the most important parts of the select committee’s work is to help ensure that nothing like January 6th ever happens again, and we take that mandate very seriously.”
Cheney, ostracized from the House GOP conference for joining the Democrats’ investigation, addressed the effort last week on a podcast with political strategist James Carville and political journalist Al Hunt.
“We’re looking at the 1887 Electoral Count Act and whether or not we need to make amendments to that in order to ensure that in the future this kind of objection to electors isn’t so subject to potential abuse.”
Congressional Republicans have roundly rejected Democrats’ push to pass voting rights legislation this year. By crafting a bill out of the House select committee investigating January 6, Democrats may offer a narrower path to address at least election subversion.
While the discussions were already underway before Trump’s lawsuit, the effort could give the committee a defense against accusations from Trump and his allies that its subpoenas are invalid because it serves no legislative purpose….
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A new bill could also address the now infamous Eastman memo, drafted by conservative lawyer John Eastman, which laid out a six-step plan for how Pence could have certified the election in favor of Trump. The memo argued that the Electoral Count Act itself was unconstitutional. Eastman proposed Pence throwing out the votes of enough states that Biden won so that the presidential election would be decided by the House, where each state gets a single vote and Republicans controlled more state delegations….
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Edward Foley, an election law professor at Ohio State University, has urged Congress to update the Electoral Count Act since before the 2020 election. He’s argued that the law should make it clearer that after a state properly affirms its slate of electors, Congress shouldn’t be able to easily intervene to throw them out.
Had the House and Senate supported the objections — if one party controlled both chambers of Congress and the other party had won the White House, for instance — it could have thrown out the electors and pushed the presidential election to the House, creating the potential for a constitutional crisis.
image…(L-R) Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) arrive for the House Select Committee hearing investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021.
Going nowhere in the Senate where Trump will order his stooges in there to do anything to stop it.
And so it needs a simple majority BEFORE 2023….
Yes Doubtful….
But NOT impossible….
In the Senate it can be filibustered.
No way will more than a couple of Republicans (If that) will support this if Trump orders them not to and he will.
Some GOPer’s ain’t running next year, eh?😉
So?