Republican leaders in the four decisive states won by President-elect Biden say they will not participate in a legally questionable plan to flip voters in their state to vote for President Donald Trump. His remarks effectively shut down the half-baked plot as a last chance for some Republicans to keep Trump in the White House.
State GOPs in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Lawmakers have all said they will not interfere in the choice of voters who ultimately voted to secure a candidate’s victory. Such a move would violate state laws and public opinion.
Rusty Bowers, speaker of the Arizona Republican House, said, “I don’t see any kind of fraud being detected – which I haven’t heard of – I don’t see us taking voter turnout seriously.” Says he is overwhelmed with emails urging the legislature to intervene. “They are required by law to be elected by the people.”
In this idea G.O.P. Consists of legislatures controlled by Biden’s popular vote victory in their states and elects Trump’s electorate. Although the final game was obscure, he occupied the expectation that the conservative Supreme Court would settle any dispute over the move.
Nevertheless, it has been criticized by Trump allies, including Florida Governor Ron Desantis, and is an example of misleading information and false claims that fuel skepticism among Trump supporters about the integrity of the vote.
The theory is that the US Constitution empowers state legislatures to decide how voters are selected. Each state has already passed laws that delegate this power to voters and appoint voters for whichever candidate wins the state on election day. The only chance for the state legislature to then engage with voters is the provision of federal law, if the actual election “fails”.
If the outcome of the election in mid-December was unclear, by the deadline for naming voters, Republican-controlled legislatures in those states could declare that Trump won and appoint voters to support him. Or so the theory goes.
Legal experts note, the problem is that the election result is not obscure in any way. Biden won all the states on the issue. When Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security reports that it has not been tampered with and that it is “the safest in American history,” the election failure is “difficult to argue.” The vote count did not address widespread fraud or problems, indicating that Biden was leading Trump by more than 5 million votes nationally.
The Trump campaign and its allies have filed lawsuits aimed at delaying certification and providing potential evidence for a failed election. But so far, Trump and Republicans have had little success – at least 10 lawsuits have been rejected by the courts in the 10 days since the election. The most notable thing left to do is to ask the courts to stop Michigan and Pennsylvania from certifying Biden as the winner of their election.
But legal experts say it is impossible for the courts to finally stop these states from appointing voters by the December deadline.
Daniel Lange of the Campaign Legal Center said, “This is the most just and bizarre intervention the courts have ever seen in this country.” “I haven’t seen anything in any of those lawsuits that have any kind of eligibility – let alone to delay the appointment of voters.”
Even if Trump wins the one-court battle, there is another major hurdle: Congress will have its final arbiter on whether to accept voters submitted by Republican legislatures. If the Democratic-controlled House and GOP-controlled Senate can’t agree on which voters to accept and who becomes president, President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence will pass the line of successor to the person who arrives at the end of January. 20. That House Speaker will be Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.
“If this is a strategy, I don’t think it will succeed,” said Edward Foley, a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University. “I think we’re in a fantasy realm here.”
But since Biden won the election, false allegations of fraud and corruption have been circulating in conservative circles. Asked this week whether state legislators should invalidate the official results, G.O.P. Sen. “Everything should be on the table,” Lindsay Graham said.
Descentis urged Pennsylvania and Michigan residents to call and intervene with state legislators. “Under Article 7 of the Constitution, the presidential electorate is made by the legislatures and the schemes and structures they have created. And if they get out of it, if they don’t follow the law, if they are ignoring the law, they can give solutions, ”he said.
Republican lawmakers, however, seem to be stable. Top Republican legislators, state Sen. Jack Corman and Rep. “The Pennsylvania General Assembly will have no hand in selecting the state’s presidential electorate or determining the outcome of the presidential election,” Kerry Benninghoff wrote in a letter. October Op-Ed. His offices said Friday that they are by a statement.
Robin Voss, a Republican leader in the Wisconsin Assembly, has long denied the idea, and his spokesman, Kit Bayer, said he stood by the position on Thursday.
In Michigan, legislators say any interference would be against state law. Even if the G.O.P. “We don’t expect our analysis to change the outcome,” state Senate majority leader Mike Shirkey told the radio station WJR on Friday.
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The report is co-authored by Scott Bauer, Associated Press Writer to Madison, Wis., David Egert, Mitch., Lansing, Mark Levy, Harrisburg, Darkin Richter, ASO, and Deb Richman, Washington DC.
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