7 Takeaways From a Senate Panel’s Hearing on Election Fraud
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks Wednesday at a hearing on election security and the 2020 election process. (Photo: Greg Nash/Getty Images)
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday held its first hearing looking into the issues of vote fraud and other irregularities surrounding the 2020 election.
The committee’s chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., defended the hearing against Democratic detractors.
Johnson said the hearing was about ensuring confidence in the electoral system and getting to the facts. The hearing included testimony from legal and election security experts, as well as from witnesses from the hotly contested states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Texas’ lawsuit that documented malpractice in the 2020 presidential election [
Supreme Court denies Texas, Trump appeal over election results in four other states, by Tyler Olson, Bill Mears, Michael Ruiz, Shannon Bream, Fox News, December 11, 2020]. And the Leftist Mainstream Media want you to know President Trump’s claim that vote fraud delivered victory to Sleepy Joe Biden are “false” and baseless,” as The Associated Press put it [
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s claims of vote rigging are all wrong, by Hope Ye, Ali Swenson, Amanda Seitz, December 3, 2020]. Trump is wrong, we are told, to say “this was like from a Third World nation,” as he has declared more than once [
On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 a coalition of 17 state attorneys general, led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, filed an amicus brief in State of Texas v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of Georgia, State of Michigan and State of Wisconsin to urge the Court to grant Texas leave to file their original action. The brief can be found here.
“The integrity of our elections is of critical importance to maintaining our republic, both today and in future elections,” Attorney General Schmitt said. “The stakes of protecting our Constitution, defending our liberty and ensuring that all votes are counted fairly couldn’t be higher. With this brief, we are joining the fight.”
Sen. Ted Cruz says social media giants in Silicon Valley have created an "Orwellian world" where citing former President Jimmy Carter on election integrity issues might get a man branded a "right-wing nut job."