I don’t think there is a norm, anymore.
Good point. I was wrong on the court being willing to intercede on this.
Powell v McCormack, mentioned in the previous post, puts to rest any possibility of indiscriminately denying seats.
When the House assembles at noon on January 3rd, 2021, all 435 members are Representatives-elect. There is no Speaker, no Chairmen, no rules. The House is called to order by the incumbent Clerk of the House, who announces that 435 certificates of election have been received. Each member elect, both by precedent and by Supreme Court ruling, is presumptively entitled to their seat. A quorum call is conducted followed by the election of the Speaker, followed by swearing in of the membership, en masse.
At NO time can either the Clerk, membership at large or Speaker deny a seat to any member-elect bearing a certificate of election.
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Thank you for this.
Back to the drawing board.
They are comparing apples to oranges and you know it.
Dem’s would be shoing their true colors of being little whinney bitchy asses that would be only doing it to win elections that they can’t win.
Sorry, man. What mitch mcconnel did was a coup. You can choose to believe it or not.
Who did Mcconnel refuse to seat? Dem’s are going to be whinney ass losers. Their full colors will show.
Again thank Reid for the first change in number of senators needed to approve a federal judge. Republicans just expanded the number a little.
Whiney ass loser dem’s. that’s all that will be on display.
McConnell refused consideration by the entire body. The rules Reid change encouraged consideration by the entire body.
Coup.
Of course it does. There are five or six states where flipping one or two seats will flip the delegation.
In theory yes it could happen.
When you actually look at the states where it’s close enough to happen, the odds are very slim the Dems can flip them all.
There’s a very small margin for error.
I agree that it’s not particularly likely. But it’s not impossible.
not gonna happen
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Just curious is it the DEMs as whinney ass losers that are expoloring the possibility that if they lose the election, they will attempt to have the vote of the people in certain battle ground states thrown out and the electoral college electors appointed by the State Legislature instead of the vote?
Trump may test this. According to sources in the Republican Party at the state and national levels, the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority. With a justification based on claims of rampant fraud, Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly. The longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires.
To a modern democratic sensibility, discarding the popular vote for partisan gain looks uncomfortably like a coup, whatever license may be found for it in law. Would Republicans find that position disturbing enough to resist? Would they cede the election before resorting to such a ploy? Trump’s base would exact a high price for that betrayal, and by this point party officials would be invested in a narrative of fraud.
The Trump-campaign legal adviser I spoke with told me the push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people’s will. Once committed to the position that the overtime count has been rigged, the adviser said, state lawmakers will want to judge for themselves what the voters intended.
WW, PSHS
sounds almost as bad as faithless electors.
that however, is not the subject of this thread. 269 is. And the look on Nancy’s face as the house delivers a 2nd term to Trump.
And guess who picks the veep.
The senate. McConnell’s nightmare is when Schumer is the majority leader and elect Harris as veep.
A trump-Harris admin.
No that would really be funny.
When trump nominates a sCOTUS justice and Harris breaks the deadlock with a no vote.
That’s worth the price of admission when trump calls the Vice President an idiot.
Allan
gop is not losing the senate
not to mention your fever dream is a bit far fetched. in choosing the vp if its a 50-50 ties the current vp would be the deciding vote
Sorry- it’s quite possible they are.
Far more likely than the House flipping the state delegation count.
not gonna happen. 50-50 is worst case
Norm. There is no political norms left with trump as president.
Allan
Regardless- at any rate Pelosi cannot do as described.
House members can only not be seated if they are shown not to have met constitutional requirements for office.
