Rand Paul ENDORSES Electoral Court Act reform

"There are a number of states where the population centers have disenfranchised state voters for decades."

New York State for one. Those of us in red counties, who vote for Republican Governors, U.S. Senatorial, Attorney General, etc., candidates are always disenfranchised. New York City, and its surrounding blue counties always elect those offices. Our votes don't count one bit.

"The Electoral College is blocking their path to kill liberty."

Rand Paul just wants to save himself from being put in the same position he was in on January 6th. He had initially planned to reject Biden's electoral votes, but after the session was interrupted, he bought the media spin of what occurred on Capitol Hill, and changed his vote. Marsha Blackburn was another one. There were others who are no longer in the Senate like Kelly Loeffler.

It is interesting that you regard a statute that has survived close examination by legal experts for many decades as blatantly unconstitutional, but then your attitude is likely shaped by the views of the day.

1. How close an examination has been done on the constitutionality of the Electoral Count Act of 1887 when it hasn’t been applied in decades?

2. The “legal experts” you cite aren’t real experts. They’re political charlatans who change their legal expertise depending on which side they’re on. That’s how you end up with some dope like Mark Levin arguing that the VP and Congress had no authority to override a state’s electoral votes in 2016 when Joe Biden was the VP, but they did have the authority to do it in 2020 when Mike Pence was the VP. That’s not legal expertise. Those are the idiotic rantings of a political hack.

… can be different than slates of electors created illegally in defiance of state constitutions or statutes, but I am not.

1. The legislatures of those states should have dealt with those issues before January 6th. They didn’t. Case closed. Read the clear language of the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to see how that works.

2. By your standard, the electoral votes of TEXAS should not have been counted in 2020 … because the governor of Texas permitted the use of ballot drop boxes — in clear violation of Texas law. And yet Texas had the audacity to file a lawsuit in Federal law and claim that other states didn’t meet their statutory requirements for a legitimate election. This is the kind of crap you get when you have lawyers involved in election stupidity.

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