Category Archives: Election Meltdown
My Statement: When Order is Restored at the Capitol, Congress Needs to Quickly Count the Electoral College Votes Confirming Biden Victory and Trump Needs to Be Immediately Removed from Office
Today has been a very sad day for American democracy. Just as Congress was beginning the formality of the process of counting state electoral college votes—as a disingenuous objection for counting Arizona’s electoral college votes from Rep. Gosar and Sen.… Continue reading
Thanks to the National Law Journal’s Supreme Court Brief for Recommending Election Meltdown on Its List of Best SCOTUS Books of 2020
You can find the recommendation here (subscription required).
Louie Gohmert Sues Mike Pence in Lawsuit Asking Court to Give Pence “Exclusive Authority” To Decide Which Electoral College Votes to Count at Jan. 6 Congressional Session (No, This Won’t Work)
But here’s the complaint.
“Forget the conspiracy theories — here are the real election security lessons of 2020”
Politico:
The foreign cyberattacks that so many intelligence officials feared didn’t upend the 2020 elections — but this year’s contests nonetheless showed how much the nation still needs to do to fix its security weaknesses.Paper trails protected the integrity… Continue reading
“Get ready, Georgia: More election drama expected after Senate runoffs”
AJC:
Georgia’s extraordinarily thin partisan divide set the stage for rampant misinformation, lawsuits and fights over election integrity after the presidential election.With control of the Senate on the line Jan. 5, elections officials are bracing for a new round of… Continue reading
“Pence under pressure as the final step nears in formalizing Biden’s win”
WaPo:
Pence is hoping for a low-key Jan. 6 and is not planning any unnecessary drama, aides said, intending to stick to his perfunctory role. He is eyeing a trip overseas soon after.Trump realized only recently that Pence would play… Continue reading
“Government report warns of potential violence and foreign interference during Georgia Senate runoffs”
Yahoo News:
With the Georgia Senate runoff races just two weeks away, the Department of Homeland Security is warning of the possibility of “ideologically motivated violence” and even a foreign influence campaign as voters prepare to go to the… Continue reading
“Could Trump declare martial law to try to steal the election? That and other efforts his allies are floating won’t work, say legal and national security experts. Here’s why.”
WaPo reports.
Can anyone imagine such a headline as recently as 5 years ago?
NYT: “A President Unhappy, Unleashed and Unpredictable”
Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt:
He has otherwise sequestered himself in the White House, playing host to a cast of conspiracy theorists and hard-core supporters who traffic in ideas like challenging the election’s outcome in Congress and even invoking … Continue reading
“Inside Trump’s pressure campaign to overturn the election”–Politico Reports Trump Tried to Pressure at Least 31 Republican Leaders Across the U.S.
Politico:
Over the next month, the president would conduct a sweeping campaign to personally cajole Republican Party leaders across the country to reject the will of the voters and hand him the election. In his appeals, he used specious and… Continue reading
“The System Is Not Working: The Lopsided Election Result, Not The Courts, Saved Our Democracy”
Jonathan Manes at Just Security.
Derek Muller Lays Out THE Conservative Case Against Texas’s Bizarre Suit to Steal the Election for Trump at the Supreme Court
Derek at Law & Liberty:
The Electoral College is a designedly decentralized process for the selection of the President of the United States. Each State may choose its presidential electors in the manner that the legislature deems appropriate.The State of… Continue reading
“How Trump drove the lie that the election was stolen, undermining voter trust in the outcome”
WaPo:
Trump is continuing to press his case, even now that the electoral college has formally elected Biden. In a meeting with allies on Friday, the president discussed deploying the military to rerun the election and appointing attorney Sidney… Continue reading