Wednesday, January 06, 2021

Moving On

The argument of the "objectors" is that Congress sits as a "super Court" above the Supreme Court and the entire federal and state judiciaries when it comes to the election of the President of the United States, as the Congress alone gets to decide how state election laws are to be applied and how votes for the President are to be certified.  And contrary to any court ruling on electoral results at any level, from dog-catcher to POTUS, the Congress can change the outcome of the Presidential election without undoing the outcome of any other election on the same ballot, because....reasons.

Congress has the authority to change the law pursuant to a Supreme Court ruling to make that law comply with the ruling of the Supreme Court.  Congress even has the authority to remove Supreme Court Justices or to shrink or enlarge the size of the Court.  But the idea that Congress sits as a "super Court" for the purposes of deciding how the laws of the 50 states were applied in the election of the POTUS (but, especially, no other office on the same ballots) and how the courts (federal and state) ruled on the application of those laws is...unconstitutional.

Plain and simple. Again, irony: all they succeed in doing is postponing the statutorily required ceremony in Congress. Postpone it long enough, and Nancy Pelosi is POTUS on January 20. Win-win!  As for defending the Capitol building, maybe the military should be called in? This could get interesting. And will it win sympathy for Trump's cause? Hardly.
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