PolitiFact - Steve Scalise’s flawed argument that states didn’t follow their own election laws
This is another example of how you rehash topics that I have already de-bunked many times. You already know all of this. We have been through this many times.
This is the argument that Rep. Steve Scalise liked to make. This argument draws on a legal doctrine based on a strict interpretation of Article 2 of the Constitution. However, it ignores the fact that courts have rejected challenges based on that argument in dozens of lawsuits by Donald Trump and his allies seeking to invalidate the certified 2020 Presidential Election results.
The argument that states can only change election laws through their state legislature also ignores the fact that some election officials have powers to set rules without legislative changes, especially during emergencies ... such as during a pandemic.
Some states did change election procedures without new legislation, including some states which Donald Trump won, like Texas, for example. Gov. Greg Abbott added extra days of early voting for the general election, citing challenges posed by the pandemic. This is common, and nothing new to 2020.
"It is often the case that there are gaps in election statutes that state and local election officials routinely fill according to their delegated authority. So to say that all decisions about how elections are run must emanate from the legislature is not consistent with explicit delegated authority to state election officials."
-- Rebecca Green, Law Professor at The College of William & Mary
If you 'debunked' a tenth of what you purport, you'd be a formidable character.
The constitution is explicit and there is no pandemic exclusion except with the permission of the legislature. Where the legislature has permitted leeway for officials to do so or approve it in such circumstance, it is allowed, but where they have not, it is not. Your own link echoes this, see bolded text of your post; thanks for debunking yourself or at least not understanding the minor point in my post.
Pennsylvania is such an example in which they violated both the state and federal constitutions.
NOW, back to the point; McFarland is not saying what you're hearing but that DOJ/FBI and intel have meddled in elections to effect an outcome; that is inarguably true. What they've done is illegal and people should be in prison for it. We effectually have ministries and special police subverting the will of the people in elections in ways that external enemies could only dream about. That's the point you avoided to puke up more 'crazy MAGA' goofiness in response, without attention to the gravity of the problem.
I and others have been warning for years that if they can do this to a candidate, nominee, and then elected president, what can they not do to you or I? We now know they've used FISA - FOREIGN Intelligence Surveillance Act - powers to not only illegally obtain warrants against the Trump campaign/admin, but have done so not just to the original 300K reported, but more than three million Americans. That includes large numbers of Dem constituent Marxist BLMers, Antifa during riots of 2020 as well as people who were just in DC for rallies on Jan. 6, all warrantless violations of the constitution.
Told you so.
WTFU.
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