Georgia Rejects Trump’s Request
On Saturday Trump phoned Kemp asking him to directly break the Law.
On Sunday, Kemp Rejected the Plea and chastised Trump.
Mr. Trump asked Mr. Kemp in a phone conversation Saturday to call a special session of the state legislature and to push lawmakers to appoint pro-Trump electors who would swing the Electoral College in his favor. Mr. Trump repeated the request at a rally Saturday night in Georgia, which Mr. Kemp didn’t attend.
“The governor is not going to call us into a special session,” Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan, said on CNN. “We’re certainly not going to move the goal posts at this point in the election. We are going to continue to follow the letter of the law.”
A second Republican elected official, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, said on ABC, “I don’t believe that there’s the will in the general assembly for a special session.’’
“State law is clear: the legislature could only direct an alternative method for choosing presidential electors if the election was not able to be held on the date set by federal law,” Messrs. Kemp and Duncan said in their statement.
“Any attempt by the legislature to retroactively change that process for the November 3rd election would be unconstitutional and immediately enjoined by the courts,’’ they wrote.
This is pretty clear isn’t it?
So let’s not whitewash the matter.
Trump does not give a damn about the rule of law.
Mish
I am convinced that there was significant fraud election in many of the precincts this election. It also looks like the voting machine system was rigged, but we will not know until the claim is investigated. This election was too close not to verify the results, at least in the states where it was close. If there was anywhere near the level of fraud that is allegated, we have a serious problem. Free and fair(accurate) elections separate us from the banana republic/dictatorship countries of the world. Godspeed to President Trump and his legal team!
So it took you an entire month to figure out how to post your totally outdated “stop the steal” malarkey? Too funny!
Another sour looser….You poor fool…Trump reminds me of the last days of Hitler in his bunker….The parallels are strikingly similar…a dictator facing defeat.
The only surprise is that anyone thought Trump did care about the rule of law.
What would be the point anyway? Trump would have to have a whole bunch of other states do the same thing which won’t happen.
A self-coup (or autocoup, from the Spanish autogolpe) is a form of putsch or coup d’état in which a nation’s leader, despite having come to power through legal means, dissolves or renders powerless the national legislature and unlawfully assumes extraordinary powers not granted under normal circumstances. Other measures taken may include annulling the nation’s constitution, suspending civil courts and having the head of government assume dictatorial powers.[
Trump is our King
Trump is the greatest President of all time! We worship him! He is our Furor, our God almighty. King of the USA.
Telltale sign — Trumptards have virtually disappeared from the comments here. Just one Phlegmish holdout.
They have just gone deeper into the darkness. I have one that texts me, and his message is that 60% of the people know that Trump won, that it’s obvious the election was stolen, and that Fox has become a liberal pawn, so now they have to get there news elsewhere.
With six weeks until he leaves office, Trump remains as unpredictable and erratic as ever. He may fire Barr or others, issue a raft of pardons to protect himself and his allies or incite a confrontation overseas. Like King Lear, he may fly into further rages and find new targets for his wrath.
“If there are these analogies between classic literature and society as it’s operating right now, then that should give us some big cause for concern this December,” said Wilson, the Shakespearean scholar. “We’re approaching the end of the play here and that’s where catastrophe always comes.”
Hamlet is a better analogy. Trump arrives on the political scene to find the rot deep and in everyone except Guiliani/Horatio. We are in the last scene and he’s dying from his fight, but it wasn’t exactly a fair fight.
Trump Cultists mostly silent in response, except for a lonely Newsmax link that I can’t be sure isn’t satire. Kudos for keeping a straight face.
Trump is leading a movement that does not care about truth or law. It does not care about democracy. It is not much further to where this movement no longer cares about maintaining peace. They care only about winning at all costs, and eventually this will be used to justify force.
It is a growing fascist movement, and it needs to be put down.
“Trump is leading a movement that does not care about truth or law. It does not care about democracy. It is not much further to where this movement no longer cares about maintaining peace. They care only about winning at all costs, and eventually this will be used to justify force.” – Now do elimination of presumption of innocence, NY’s elimination of double-jeopardy protections, extra-judicial killing of citizens, wiretapping and prosecuting journalists, stretch of the commerce clause to justify federal power grabs, presidential override of immigration law, imposition of law by judicial fiat, antifa/occupy/WTO black block/weathermen/SDS violence. I’ll wait right here.
Just remember – one party wants to increase federal power via taxation and exercise power through corporations. Those are the fascists.
Only one side is actively trying to overthrow an election, which is decidedly against the basic tenets of the Constitution.
Arizona legislature shuts down, avoiding having to vote on replacing the electors.
Is there any question what that outcome would have been? And that plague rat Guliani infected the place to give them an easy out.
Republican Judge tears up Sidney Powell’s request and argument . The Kraken was laughed at in Georgia
If Trump is not in office on January 20th you can be certain that Trump (or Pence if Trump arranges it somehow) will grant Trump, his family, and his associates complete pre-emptive pardons for any and all federal crimes. There will be no better indicator of guilt of widespread crimes against the country and the people of the United States than this blanket pardon. It is the main reason that Trump wants to stay in office, to avoid any prosecution for himself and his family.
That is filled with issues. Pre-emptive pardons are not a thing and would likely be struck down by the Supreme Court. I am told Trump feels stuck these days no matter what he does. Also remember Pence will be the one certifying the result of the Presidential election when he oversees the Senate in early January. I doubt Pence would pardon him. And the pardon is exactly for what ? Trump has no federal indictments against him yet.
WHICH CRIMES exactly ?? The ones in CNN brainwashed minds, maybe ? The reason Trump is hanging on to power is simply because he and the republican party want to gain senate majority in january….
“If?” He lost the election. If he is in office on 20 January, we have a major problem.
Listened to a relevant podcast on behind the bastards. How the average german enabled the holocaust. Tells how the average german went along with the nazi party because they agreed with some of their ideas. Everyone should give it a listen.
We are living it now with tech censorship and people losing their livelihoods if they espouse unpopular views.
Are you referring to silencing political opponents, deplatformings, disinvitations, and our media deciding to not vet one candidate and declare the other a Russian agent?
Hillary gets it
Yep. She doesn’t get enough credit for seeing all this well in advance. It wouldn’t have mattered but I would have changed my vote for her if I had 2016 to do over again. I was duped by the media, Trump, Comey and Wikileaks (Russia).
YEP! , On second thought you should have elected the bitch of all bitches, that s obvious ….
Has a dictator ever been peacefully removed?
A dangerous game the republicans are playing. most are afraid to stand up for the constitution over blowback from trumps base. Some are joining in in a quest for power. The far right base doesnt see the coup attempt they are enabling.
Is/Has Trump discussed expanding the Supreme Court, eliminating the filibuster, and adding states to the Union? The socialists are the ones aiming to trash the system.
My guess is that the impending Barr defenestration has to do with the reluctance of a “real” lawyer to use the methods desired by Trump.
Had Georgia attempted to replace the Electors, that would have presented a court case that likely would have ended up at the US Supreme Court. I find it difficult to believe that they would sanction such an action.
It is not clear that there has been significant election fraud. Other than a lot of bluster, there has been no presentation of evidence, which is why Trump keeps losing his cases. Even if there was, the remedy should never be to tear up the Constitution and create a dictator. The solution is to tighten the controls for the next election. Everyone favors fair elections. We need to continue to focus on making sure each election is safer, and has less fraud than the prior one.
If Georgia had voted to nullify the vote it would have been a shit show and would have bee challenged as unconsititutional. I’m no lawyer but I think this would go against Purcell. If Georgia wanted to submit its own slate and not have citizens vote it needed to communicate that before hand. Citizens have a right to know the rules. The elector can’t simply sit back see how the vote was going and then decide to nullify it because their candidate didn’t win. This is 3rd world stuff. It would have failed but should never even get to that point.
Kemp has already indicated he will certify the electio later today.
It’s been painfully obvious for years that Donald Trump doesn’t respect our laws, institutions or our constitution. It was abundantly clear that Trump should have been removed on the second impechment count(Romney called this one right) but right after the Senate failed to remove what did Donald Trump do ? He sent Rudy to the Ukraine to pressure a Euroepean ally dependent on aid to interfere in our election. We’ve had our years of Trump not giving a dam about the law which is a fitting conidering how he’s conducted himself before that. His earliet lawyer was Roy Cohn a mafia figure
Cohen was involved with Senator McCarthy as well.
Cohn
LOL… he did NOT ask Ukraine to interfere in your fckn elections, he merely wanted to expose CRIMINAL behaviour and abuse of power by your president elect and his son, exactly what the Dems and their CNN have been doing with Trump for 4 years 24/7…
… neither did Mussolini, Hitler, or Jones
Or George W Bush or Barack Obama for that matter.
Neither do his followers…. for them, Dear Leader is all that matters.
No surprise there. What is extremely disappointing is how many, perhaps the majority, of Republicans join with him in trashing the law, our institutions, honesty and truth.
Exactly. The GOP: Party of Hate® needs to die.
“..perhaps the majority, of Republicans join with him”
Not real surprise there. Republicans have not been able to win the popular vote in ages. They win by focusing on the electoral college, the courts and locally by gerrymandering. Republicans are the most anti-democratic party of the two.
BTW I think Trump knows he will not succeed but all this blustering gets his coffers full (200M so far). Not surprise there many of his supporters give millions every year to the evangelical mega churches so they are use to be taken.
….The coffers of the republican party you ll mean …..NOT HIS….
Nope. The PAC is controlled by Trump not the RNC
sickening and heartily scary for the country’s future!
“What is extremely disappointing is how many, perhaps the majority, of Republicans join with him in trashing the law, our institutions, honesty and truth.”
Yeah, except for those in various elected positions, as the article mentions. They are insignificant though. LOL!!!