"Don't think this one has fully sunk in yet: A member of Congress suggested ..."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

SpeakerOfTheHat Retweeted

Don't think this one has fully sunk in yet: A member of Congress suggested that GOP-controlled states anoint Trump electors **before those states were even called.**

This wasn't overturning the election. This was scrapping democracy before the votes were even counted.

Link to tweet

[onecaliberal]

1. K&R

[Sneederbunk]

2. Who said this? I am betting my money on Nunes.

[mahina]

7. Oh of course. I didn't think of him. This explains his exit stage far right.

[DeeNice]

3. kickety kick kick

It didn't get by me fwiw. I want to say they are as unamerican as you can get, but I know they'll prove me wrong.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

5. When ever they hit a new low

There's always someone with a shovel.

[dchill]

14. Yep. Hold my machine gun!

[ashredux]

4. Why not be even more aggressive, and just send State electors before anyone even votes!!!!!!!

[LaMouffette]

10. Sure, why not? They're already calling fraud months in advance of elections!

[mahina]

6. My money is in Gaetz for that one. Second choice Gym Jordan.

Marge, Boebert and Gozer (I know, but right?) couldn’t write that many words without spelling mistakes. Nor could they think that through.

50$ on Gaetz. $25 on Gym.

/I kind about the bet. But not the substance!

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. Even conservatives in Congress can't spell. Agressive? Forgot the second G, skeezix

For all of them to demand people know English here, why do so many of them make me feel that are remedial ESL for non-native speakers?

What a MORAN!!!

[MiHale]

9. KnR

[Wounded Bear]

11. Sadly, the Constitution is rather vague on the subject...

All it says is electors shall be appointed "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct." The popular vote isn't even mentioned.

Right now, most states have laws in place defining how the popular vote applies and how electors are chosen. Republicans are attacking that system frontally, both through gerrymandering and through re-assigning how electors are chosen and allocated.

[Fiendish Thingy]

19. But the Electoral Count Act, and it's revisions, are not silent

The Governor has final say in the appointment of electors, not the legislature (unless the legislature acts before the election and takes that power away from the Governor, and he/she agrees to sign the bill making it law),

[radius777]

22. The problem is that a now far-right SCOTUS could declare the ECA

and state election laws unconstitutional. The Constitution in its strictest interpretation gives state legislatures the absolute right to select electors.

[Fiendish Thingy]

24. SCOTUS overturning the ECA would seal its fate as an illegitimate body

SCOTUS has already ruled ECA constitutional, with governor certified slates of electors being the only official ones to be counted.

https://verdict.justia.com/2020/09/30/no-republicans-cannot-throw-the-presidential-election-into-the-house-so-that-trump-wins

The conservative justices on the court have a loyalty to their ideology, not to Trump himself.

They ruled against Trump in his 2020 challenges, and I expect they would do so again.

[radius777]

28. I'm not as confident as you are.

The article you cited is dated 9/30/20 and Barrett was sworn in 10/27/20.

The anti-democratic and anti-majoritarian strain within conservatism is strong and did not begin with Trump.

They desperately want an apartheid style system where a conservative white minority rules with an iron fist, and IMO will use whatever tortured logic they can to get there. The recent ruling on the Texas anti-choice bounty law shows us that 5 of them don't care about precedent, legitimacy or even basic logic.

[Fiendish Thingy]

29. SCOTUS, with Barrett, ruled against Trump in his election challenges.

Barrett did recuse on one case.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

12. SAD ! pathetic from our government workers, do your job

defend the constitution against all enemies, period !!!

[KS Toronado]

13. My monies are on Roger Q Marshall Q party KS

[ancianita]

15. Yep.

Those with no civics knowledge exercise their freedom to fill their jackal brains with traitorous thoughts.

[The Mouth]

16. Technically, the states can select the electors however they wish.

Blue states can do the same, too.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. GOP is full on, unapologetically anti-democracy at this point.

[Lonestarblue]

18. There must be some federal law the DOJ could use to prosecute this person.

That is true election fraud!

[choie]

20. Why don't we know which rethug fucker texted that?

Why are they being protected?

[ExTex]

21. Remember the good old days when the GOP fretted over how to attract more voters?

Then they decided, "F*ck it. We'll just suppress voting, gerrymander like hell, and cry 'election fraud' whenever a Democrat wins. Also we'll harass election officials and workers out of their jobs and replace them with our own stooges while we wink at Republicans who vote more than once".

So far the new strategy seems to be working.

[Emile]

23. How pathetically sad it must be to be a Republican

and the only way you can win the presidency is by cheating. They sure as hell can't get the majority of votes anymore!

[flying_wahini]

25. Well it worked in Florida when Gore lost. Right?

[SharonAnn]

26. Right, they weren't going to let him officially WIN (which he would have if they'd counted all votes

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

27. It was Gym Jordan...

He was outed by the conservative organization that originally authored the idea...they are still claiming that it was based on sound constitutional law...🤔

[Delphinus]

30. Really?

I want them to name say their names and I want the traitors expelled from the House, never to return.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

31. Looks like I was wrong...

I read today (12/17) that the text came from Rick Perry's phone (he denies it).
The same conservative group claims that the text originated from them. They have claimed it was sent to several people sympathetic to their cause. Their original claim that Gym Jordan forwarded it still stands but CNN is reporting Rick Perry sent it...they all lie, so who knows 🤔