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22 Dec 2022, 8:11 pm
” Afterward, Congress was able to return to this Capitol Building and finish the job of counting the Electoral College votes and certifying the election. [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
Is it only about the Electoral College that Dante’s inscription applies? [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
That example was, and is, the Electoral College. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 11:51 am
Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), would amend the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and reaffirm that the vice president has only a ministerial role at the joint session of Congress where electoral college votes are counted. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 6:30 am
His answer is not an elegant conceptual synthesis, but instead a suggestion that perhaps in the long run, a delegitimization of the electoral college might lead to our finding some better way of electing a president. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 5:01 am
It shows remarkable prescience, seeming to anticipate the arguments made by John Eastman and others that Vice President Pence and the Congress should refuse to recognize (or at least delay recognition of) the electoral college votes from states where Trump forces claimed the official election results were based on fraud. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 5:01 am
Prosecutors leveled this charge against Miller (who hails from Texas) and Fischer (a police officer from Pennsylvania), as well as Edward Jacob Lang (who hails from the Hudson Valley but was not present at court that day), for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to halt or delay the joint session of Congress and its certification of the Electoral College’s votes. [read post]
14 Dec 2022, 5:54 am
These false Electoral College votes inflicted lasting local and national harm. [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 9:01 pm
And it ignores the structural ways in which state supreme court judges (who are often elected by statewide, ungerrrymandered electorates and thus accountable to them) are very different from appointed and life-tenured federal judges, who are rightly much more confined in their lawmaking powers.Perhaps the desire by some Justices today to retain oversight of federal-election administration goes back to the instinct members of the Court may have had two decades ago in Bush v. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 5:01 am
Sellars emphasized that this second rule has particular application to functions, like certifying the Electoral College vote, that the Constitution “hermetically seals” off from the president. [read post]
7 Dec 2022, 5:53 am
This can hardly be in question for an attack on the seat of federal government, against the two houses of the legislative branch meeting in a joint session to count the Electoral College ballots that determine the presidency. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 7:20 am
” Similarly, Article II’s electors clause says that states shall appoint presidential electors for the Electoral College “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 5:01 am
Plaintiffs assert that, before and during the events on Jan. 6, defendants violated § 1985(1) by fomenting violence, conspiring to prevent members of Congress from fulfilling their duties to certify Electoral College votes, and preventing then-President-elect Joe Biden and then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris from accepting or holding office. [read post]
6 Dec 2022, 12:01 am
He was the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 12:23 pm
The Electoral Count Act governs the process of casting and counting the Electoral College votes for president and vice president. [read post]
29 Nov 2022, 1:00 pm
Lake is contesting her loss in the Arizona governor’s race, but in so doing, she’s shriveling into an almost… Continue reading The post Greg Sargent: “New Trumpist threats in Arizona make electoral college reform urgent” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
22 Nov 2022, 4:13 am
A mistrial was declared on two of the remaining counts, including the charge of obstructing the certification of the electoral college. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 11:55 am
Former International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Jack Smith will oversee investigations into whether on January 6, 2021, “any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote” and whether there was possible obstruction of that investigation. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 8:01 pm
And paragraph (b) includes the entire January 6 kit-and-caboodle: (b) The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021, as well as any matters that arose or might arise directly from this investigation or that are… [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 1:59 pm
The order states that Smith will oversee “the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021. [read post]
