Saturday, December 24, 2022

Congress approves new election certification rules in response to Jan. 6 | PBS NewsHour

The provisions amending the 1887 law — which has long been criticized as poorly and confusingly written — won bipartisan support and would make it harder for future presidential losers to prevent the ascension of their foes, as Trump tried to do on Jan. 6, 2021. 

"It's a monumental accomplishment, particularly in this partisan atmosphere, for such a major rewrite of a law that's so crucial to our democracy," said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California Los Angeles. "This law goes a long way toward shutting down the avenues Trump and his allies tried to use in 2020, and could have been exploited in future elections."…


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