As President Trump pushes Congress to block certification of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory, his Republican allies look to the showdown on Capitol Hill a century and a half ago as a.
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Republicans in Pennsylvania's state Senate asked congressional Republican leaders on Tuesday night to delay certification of the state's electoral votes for President-elect Joseph R. Biden, citing "questionable activities" in the election.
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To hear the mainstream media and bleeding-heart liberals tell it, Republicans who plan to object to Electoral College votes in the 2020 presidential election are all but committing treason.
Congress is set to certify the election results Wednesday, and a slew of Republicans a dozen in the Senate, more than 100 in the House plan to make their objections known.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas released Saturday a joint statement with 10 other GOP lawmakers announcing that they “intend to vote on January 6 to reject the electors from disputed states as not ‘regularly given’ and ‘lawfully certified’ (the statutory requisite), unless and until [an] emergency 10-day audit is completed.”
Anti-death penalty activists on Tuesday launched last-minute bids to push back three scheduled federal executions until President-elect Joseph R. Biden takes over, hoping he will spare their lives.