Showing posts with label Electoral Count Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electoral Count Act. Show all posts

Friday, October 25, 2024

Opinion | Trump’s Election Reversal Dreams Are Dead - The New York Times

"I'm not arguing that we should be complacent. We should expect MAGA lawyers to bombard courts and state legislatures with frivolous arguments to try to reverse the outcome if Trump loses — and we shouldn't be shocked or surprised if MAGA ultimately resorts to violence like it did on Jan. 6 — but I don't think most Americans know how well our election system has been fortified against Trump's legal schemes. He can't run the same playbook he ran in 2020..."

Friday, June 17, 2022

Former Judge J. Michael Luttig criticizes his party, ex-clerks : NPR

"Once Ted Cruz promised to object, January 6 was all but foreordained, because Cruz was the most influential figure in the Congress willing to force a vote on Trump's claim that the election was stolen," he told The Washington Post in March. "He was also the most knowledgeable of the intricacies of both the Electoral Count Act and the Constitution, and the ways to exploit the two."


Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Opinion | The Conservative Case for Reforming the Electoral Count Act - The New York Times

…Republicans are proponents of limited federal government. They oppose aggregation of power in Washington and want it dispersed to the states. It should be anathema to them that Congress has the power to overturn the will of the American people in an election that, by constitutional prescription, is administered by the states, not Washington. If the Democrats are willing to divest themselves of the power to decide the presidency that the 49th Congress wrongly assumed 135 years ago, then it would be the height of political hypocrisy for the Republicans to refuse to divest theirs…


Saturday, January 8, 2022

“Biden takes on the Big Lie.” (Pod Save America podcast)

President Biden marks the anniversary of the January 6th attack with a pointed speech about the Big Lie, Donald Trump decides to shut up and cancel his press conference, Congress debates voting rights and the Electoral Count Act, and Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman joins to talk about how redistricting is going much better for Democrats than expected.
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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Opinion | A GOP lawyer warns that Trump’s schemes show an urgent need for Electoral Count Act reform - The Washington Post

Benjamin Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election lawyer, just issued a stark warning to lawmakers in his own party: If you don't act now to protect our system, the losing candidate in the 2024 presidential election might seek to overturn the will of the people — and succeed...









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