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6 Jan 2022, 4:00 pm
What ensued over the next hour was the most powerful experience of my career…When speeches switched back to electoral college debate, I felt something change in the room. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 2:26 pm
Capitol building in an attempt to stop the counting of Electoral College votes) and commentators increasingly question the stability of American democracy, an internal whistleblower at Facebook, Frances Haugen, came forward to explain how the company has manipulated its algorithms in a way that increases polarization, spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories, and causes an increase in teen suicides and political violence. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 11:19 am
Pix credit HERE Remember, Remember, the 5th of NovemberGunpowder, treason and plotI see no reasonWhy gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot.Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intentTo blow up the Kong and ParliamentThree score barrels of powder belowPoor old England to overthrowBy God's providence he was catch'dWith a dark lantern and burning matchHoller boys, holler boys, let the bells ringHoller boys, holler boysGod save the King! [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 10:05 am
The statute governing the counting of Electoral College votes, the Electoral Count Act of 1887, contains dangerous ambiguities and sowed the seed of the controversy last year. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 7:21 am
Twenty-one Oath Keepers (either dues-paying members or informal associates) have been charged in one indictment for, among other things, conspiring to corruptly obstruct an official proceeding—namely, the Joint Session of Congress devoted to counting the state’s previously certified Electoral College votes pursuant to the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Act. [read post]
6 Jan 2022, 4:13 am
For all the excuses made, it was an attempt at insurrection, not because it was a riot but because its purpose was to prevent the act of Congress that was naively part of the bloodless coup, the counting of the votes of the electoral college. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 9:30 pm
When Jones entered the legal profession, Republicans, relying on Black voters, who made up 37 percent of the state electorate, still contested Democrats for elective office. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 3:33 pm
Here, the Jan. 6 arrestees, 25 percent have a college degree, which is close to the national average of the U.S. electorate at 30 percent. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 6:30 am
If Trump incited the protesters at the Stop the Steal rally in order to prevent Congress from counting the Electoral College votes, or conspired to organize the protests to achieve the same result, he was attempting to subvert the Constitution, and that should also be a Type One crisis. [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 5:00 am
[the] political compromise of the Electoral College...overrepresentation of rural voting power in the Senate...and [later] the failure of Reconstruction after the Civil War. [read post]
4 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
I also worried that “Trump’s brownshirts [might] heed his call and light the capital ablaze” if his authoritarian allies in Congress failed to block the certification of Electoral College votes from states that Trump falsely claimed had been stolen from him. [read post]
31 Dec 2021, 10:10 am
(July 14, 2021)Court concludes California candidate tax disclosure law applies only to gubernatorial primaries, not recalls (July 21, 2021)Weighing risks to the 2024 Electoral College (August 8, 2021)Qualifications for candidates running in California’s gubernatorial recall (August 17, 2021)Nationwide preclearance of existing voter identification laws in the John L. [read post]
31 Dec 2021, 10:10 am
(July 14, 2021)Court concludes California candidate tax disclosure law applies only to gubernatorial primaries, not recalls (July 21, 2021)Weighing risks to the 2024 Electoral College (August 8, 2021)Qualifications for candidates running in California’s gubernatorial recall (August 17, 2021)Nationwide preclearance of existing voter identification laws in the John L. [read post]
30 Dec 2021, 9:03 pm
Congress reconvened to certify the electoral college results after a mob of President Trump supporters stormed the U.S. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 9:18 am
I was particularly annoyed that he described the election in this way: "The Electoral College has spoken. [read post]
21 Dec 2021, 1:11 pm
” By storming the US Capitol during the certification of the Electoral College vote, the government alleges that the defendants violated Section 1512(c)(2) of Title 18, which states that “[w]hoever corruptly . . . or . . . otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 8:00 am
Meadows — before states were even finished counting ballots — proposing an “aggressive strategy” in which Republican-controlled legislatures in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and other states would “just send their own electors” instead of potential Biden electors chosen by voters. [read post]
16 Dec 2021, 5:45 am
The alleged aim of the attack was to prevent Congress members and former Vice President Pence from counting certified lists of votes from the Electoral College, in an alleged conspiracy to violate 42 USC § 1985(1). [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 2:55 pm
., in advance of January 6, 2021, to publicly urge people to stop the certification of the Electoral College vote. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 10:56 am
Democrat Joe Biden won Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and their 79 Electoral College votes by a combined 311,257 votes out of 25.5 million ballots cast for president. [read post]
