What I’ll never understand is why some FReepers supported and defended what Pence did on 1/6.
“He had a constitutional duty”.
BS
You want to know what REALLY happened on January 6th?
Ted Cruz had arranged with enough Senators to pass a motion to postpone the certification of the election and to create a Select Committee to look into election irregularities.
This deal fell through after the Capital was evacuated, and when they returned to the building congress was then determined to certify that day.
Cruz had worked behind the scenes on this plan a full two weeks prior to January 6th, so I think the entire "insurrection" was planned to kneecap Cruz's Select Committee compromise.
Don't believe me? Here is a press release by Ted Cruz on January 2nd, 2021 outlining the whole plan:
"We should follow that precedent. To wit, Congress should immediately appoint an Electoral Commission, with full investigatory and fact-finding authority, to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election returns in the disputed states. Once completed, individual states would evaluate the Commission's findings and could convene a special legislative session to certify a change in their vote, if needed.
"Accordingly, we intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given' and ‘lawfully certified' (the statutory requisite), unless and until that emergency 10-day audit is completed.
Well it took me about five minutes to find the evidence that your claim that Comix post was “BS” was in fact BS itself
Your welcome
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To: Hostage
Name one state that didn’t follow that state’s legal procedure to certify their electoral ballots.
Name one state where the legislature went into session and formally voted to rescind that state’s certification of electoral ballots.
Pence is correct. The U.S. Constitution gives the VP/Senate President only one power when it comes to electoral ballots. The Constitution says the VP opens the envelopes containing the ballots and hands them to ‘tellers’ to count (tellers being two members each of the House and Senate). That’s it. Not a single word about the VP rejecting ballots or doing anything else with the ballots.
The power to reject ballots once they reach Congress lies with Congress. The Constitution says Congress as a whole can vote to reject a ballot. That’s the only way electoral ballots get rejected.
The Federalist Society has a motto that says in part to do ‘what the law says, not what it should say’. In this case Pence is correct about the duties of the VP as far as electoral ballots. If anyone sees anything in the Constitution that says otherwise, please cut and paste and post here on FR.
9 posted on 11/7/2021, 7:24:56 AM by Roadrunner383
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To: Hostage
Pence is dead in the water.....too many Trump supporters
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To: ClearCase_guy
That’s speculative. We’ve had close elections before and no vice president has ever singlehandedly sent back the results. If Pence had done so it would have established a precedent for the next time, when Democrats might have that power — it didn’t outright tear the country apart.
35 posted on 11/7/2021, 8:28:53 AM by x
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“What I’ll never understand is why some FReepers supported and defended what Pence did on 1/6.”
I fail to understand how Pence made the short list to begin with.