• dhork@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    A few things of note here. First, there is no guarantee that Mike Johnson will even be in a position to do anything about it. It’s the new Congress that counts these votes, so if Democrats can pick up a few seats then Jeffries will be Speaker.

    Second, recall that they made some changes to the EC voting process:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Reform_and_Presidential_Transition_Improvement_Act_of_2022

    They increased the threshold of members who need to object to 1/5 of each body (so, 87 House members + 20 Senators). Is it possible they already have these people in the bag? Possibly, especially since the yo-yos who objected last time haven’t really had any consequences to that.

    They also clarified exactly two grounds for challenges:

    The electors of a state were not lawfully certified

    An elector’s vote was not “regularly given”

    But I suppose there is nothing to really stop them from claiming the electors were not lawfully certified, even if they were. They are still complaining that Jack Smith wasn’t lawfully installed, and even got a judge to buy into it.

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      They are still complaining that Jack Smith wasn’t lawfully installed, and even got a judge to buy into it.

      That judge being Aileen Cannon, who Trump nominated, has been obviously slow walking his case, is clearly doing everything she can to protect him, and even she wasn’t stupid enough to try this argument until Clarence Thomas dropped a big fat hint in a SCOTUS decision to give her cover.