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Last night, the US Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by Texas that sought to make the 2020 election something that could at least pass for free and fair in dim light. As a result, we will have a man (and I use the term only in its loosest form) sworn in as president who is not only in the latter stages of physical and cognitive decline but for whom there is no solid evidence that he won the election. READ: BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules on Whether to Accept Texas Lawsuit Against Contested States.
The decision to dismiss was a disappointment because there were major Constitutional issues presented and eighteen other states joined in asking the Supreme Court to resolve a basic question: is there any recourse available to anyone to challenge a blatantly fraudulent election carried out under illegal procedures. Along with those courageous states were 126 GOP members of the House of Representatives led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (list of members).
Pascrell Demands 126 Members Seeking to Overturn Election Not Be Seated in Congress December 11, 2020, 3:52 pm | in
Pascrell Demands 126 Members Seeking to Overturn Election Not Be Seated in Congress
PATERSON, NJ – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today called on House leaders to sanction Members and exclude from the 117th Congress any Members-elect who are supporting Donald Trump’s efforts to invalidate the 2020 presidential election. Pascrell cites the text of Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment which disqualifies from service any individuals who seek to attack American democracy, as well as Congress’s power to exclude Members by majority vote as acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court in Powell v. McCormack.