CNN Democracy in Peril January 20, 2022 02:53:00
Check. john. >> that's right, this is this 1887 law that was the toe hold that trump and john eastman used to argue that they could effectively overturn the election in that infamous six-point memo. they argued that basically the law was so badly written that possibly, quite possibly, vice president pence could intercede, objection could be taken to the floor and the will of the people in effect subverted. what that has done is hung a lantern on the need to refine and refocus and rewrite this law to clarify that the vice president's role is a mere functionary and to raise the threshold for the...
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