The central point is that the VP, as the presiding officer and final authority, has the unquestionable authority to declare that the states in question have not conducted presidential elections. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, but no one has the authority to override his decision.
The statement says nothing about who might or might not have "won" the contested states. Rather, by not following their own laws, as enacted by their own legislatures, they have violated Article II, Section 1. Thus, they have not conducted an election, and their results are void.
If the votes of all seven contested states are registered as zero, President Trump will have 232 votes, and Joe Biden will have 222. The 12th Amendment says, "[T]he votes shall then be counted[.] ... The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President[.]"
In plain language, Donald Trump will be re-elected, since he has a majority of the actual electoral votes. There will be no need to involve the House of Representatives to resolve a contingent election.
Richard Nixon chose not to contest the 1960 election because he felt that winning that way would lead to an ungovernable country. If V.P. Pence does this, that same argument might be made. But is the country governable even now? Blue states such as California, Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan are already operating in an openly lawless manner with their "emergency" "COVID-related" restrictions. Their denial of the civil rights of law-abiding citizens is horrific. Their refusal to do basic policing and law enforcement is a recipe for open war. How much worse would things be if the V.P. lived up to his oath and upheld the law?
Ideally .... the Blue States would then want to secede.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that can be peacefully facilitated.
But I think I will swing by the ammo store on the way home tomorrow to top off ..... just in case he grows a pair.
ReplyDeleteI think he will do nothing.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
ReplyDeleteBut I dont think Trump is planning to peacefully step down either.
He's got something up his sleeve.
.... it probably wont be pretty.
I agree with that too.
ReplyDeleteThere's gonna be a fight either way (any which of the 3 ways: 1) Trump is re-inaugurated and the evil (D) are hunted for pelts for causing delay, and for their revealed worldwide bullsh_t during elections; 2) Trump declares martial law to take control of the situation, and the evil (D) are hunted for pelts for causing delay, and for their revealed worldwide bullsh_t during elections; or 3) Biden takes office, whereafter he and his felonious Burisma cohort V.P. pick Kurmala get removed from office by. . . [if you don't know how, then you are not entitled to know how], and the evil (D) are hunted for pelts for causing delay, and for their revealed worldwide bullsh_t during elections).
ReplyDeleteSo Fn roll the dice and letzee wat happenz. I'm getting old, I don't want to have to wait to do this when I'm 90, and Trump being confirmed the victor at this point (which he is) ain't going to lift the needle off of the peg as far as paying for the magnitude of bs that we've had to put up with from the (D).