Politics
The clock is ticking – here is why all election controversies must be resolved in less than a month
Most Americans assume that the election is already over, but the truth is that the presidential election has not even happened yet.
Penned by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse
This is going to be one of the most chaotic periods in the history of U.S. politics, because we literally have less than 30 days to solve major election controversies in six different states.
For the Trump campaign, it is going to be a race against time, and so hopefully they have some of the sharpest lawyers in the entire nation working on this 24 hours a day.
Because once the Electoral College has voted, there isn’t going to be any going back. Sadly, the 2020 election season is exposing some real flaws in our system.
Investigating allegations of vote fraud is a task that requires a lot of time, and our system was never designed to allow for that.
Instead, it was just assumed that our elections would be fair and honest and that any potential controversies could be resolved very rapidly.
Most Americans assume that the election is already over, but the truth is that the presidential election has not even happened yet.
According to the U.S. Constitution, it is the Electoral College that elects the president, and they will not cast their votes until December 14th.
So nobody should be claiming that anyone is the “president-elect”, because you can only be the “president-elect” after you have been elected.
Unfortunately, even Wikipedia is promoting the falsehood that you can have a “president-elect” before the Electoral College has voted…
The president-elect of the United States is the person who conclusively appears to have won a presidential election in the United States but has yet to take office as President. The president-elect takes office after the oath of office is administered during the presidential inauguration.
In our system, the American people do not elect the president.
Instead, every four years we go to the polls to choose a slate of electors in each state, and those electors cast their votes to actually elect the president at a later date.
In 2020, members of the Electoral College will gather on December 14th to cast their votes. And the deadline for choosing those electors is December 8th. The following comes from the National Archives…
States must make final decisions in any controversies over the appointment of their electors at least six days before the meeting of the electors. This is so their electoral votes will be presumed valid when presented to Congress. Decisions by States’ courts are conclusive, if decided under laws enacted before Election Day.
So that makes December 8th the most important date on the election calendar, because all of the election challenges need to be wrapped up by then.
Like I said in the title of this article, the clock is ticking.
Six days after December 8th, the electors will formally cast their votes, and then we will finally have a “president-elect”. Here is more from the National Archives…
The electors meet in their respective States and vote for President and Vice President on separate ballots. The electors record their votes on six Certificates of Vote, which are paired with the six remaining Certificates of Ascertainment. The electors sign, seal, and certify six sets of electoral votes. A set of electoral votes consists of one Certificate of Ascertainment and one Certificate of Vote.
Normally, voting by the Electoral College goes entirely as expected. Both parties work very hard to make sure that the electors that they choose to appear on the ballot are very loyal, and a majority of states have now passed laws which require their electors to vote in line with what the citizens of their states have chosen.
In fact, at this point there are 29 states (and D.C.) which have laws that give them “legal control over their electors”…
Alabama (Code of Ala. §17-19-2)
Alaska (Alaska Stat. §15.30.090)
California (Election Code §6906)
Colorado (CRS §1-4-304)
Connecticut (Conn. Gen. Stat. §9-176)
Delaware (15 Del C §4303)
District of Columbia (§1-1312(g))
Florida (Fla. Stat. §103.021(1))
Hawaii (HRS §14-28)
Maine (21-A MRS §805)
Maryland (Md Ann Code art 33, §8-505)
Massachusetts (MGL, ch. 53, §8)
Michigan (MCL §168.47)
Mississippi (Miss Code Ann §23-15-785)
Montana (MCA §13-25-104)
Nebraska (§32-714)
Nevada (NRS §298.050)
New Mexico (NM Stat Ann §1-15-9)
North Carolina (NC Gen Stat §163-212)
Ohio (ORC Ann §3505.40)
Oklahoma (26 Okl St §10-102)
Oregon (ORS §248.355)
South Carolina (SC Code Ann §7-19-80)
Tennessee (Tenn Code Ann §2-15-104(c))
Utah (Utah Code Ann §20A-13-304)
Vermont (17 VSA §2732)
Virginia (§24.2-203)
Washington (RCW §29.71.020)
Wisconsin (Wis Stat §7.75)
Wyoming (Wyo Stat §22-19-108)
There are still 21 states which could theoretically have electors that vote however they want, but because the parties carefully choose their own electors it is very unlikely that we will see any “faithless electors” in this election.
So the bottom line is that all of the legal disputes about the choosing of electors will be wrapped up by December 8th one way or the other, and that gives authorities very little time to determine what actually happened on November 4th and the days following.
Trump’s legal team is facing a task of monumental proportions. They have got to condense years of work into just a few weeks, and they have got to be able to prove that voting results need to be overturned in at least three states before the December 8th deadline.
On Tuesday night, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told Sean Hannity that Trump’s team now has 234 pages of sworn affidavits alleging election fraud. But does Trump’s legal team have enough time to use that evidence to flip the results in enough states to alter the eventual outcome?
At a minimum, Trump is going to need three states. Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan would get him to a tie in the Electoral College, and that tie would be broken by a vote of state delegations in the House of Representatives.
Trump could also win an outright victory by flipping a combination of four different states, but that won’t be easy to do in less than a month.
As I have been detailing on The Most Important News, an enormous amount of evidence that is favorable to Trump has been emerging.
But Trump’s biggest enemy is the clock. Each day that passes without something major happening is a big victory for Biden and a huge loss for Trump.
One way or the other, it will all be over by December 8th.
I wish that we had much more time than that, but we simply do not.
Politics
Biden Wants To Give Separated Illegal Immigrants $450,000 Per Person
The average amount sought through the courts is roughly $3.4 million per family, according to the report.
The Biden administration is mulling a plan to offer immigrant families separated during the Trump administration $450,000 per person in compensation, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.
The payments – part of an inter-agency solution to several lawsuits filed on behalf of separated parents and children claiming lasting psychological trauma could amount to nearly $1 million per family, though ‘the final numbers could shift,’ according to the report.
According to sources, most of the families crossing into the US from Mexico included one parent and one child. Depending on circumstances, many families could get smaller payouts.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents families in one of the lawsuits, has identified about 5,500 children separated at the border over the course of the Trump administration, citing figures provided to it by the government. The number of families eligible under the potential settlement is expected to be smaller, the people said, as government officials aren’t sure how many will come forward. Around 940 claims have so far been filed by the families, the people said. -WSJ
In total, the potential payout could reach $1 billion or more.
Throughout the Trump administration, thousands of children were separated from their parents (and coyotes paid to bring them into the country) after they had crossed illegally into the country from Mexico. The lawsuits allege some of the children suffered various ailments – including malnutrition, heat exhaustion, and were kept in freezing cold rooms with little medical attention. Some claim lasting mental health problems due to the trauma of being without their parents for several months.
The average amount sought through the courts is roughly $3.4 million per family, according to the report.
“President Biden has agreed that the family separation policy is a historic moral stain on our nation that must be fully remedied,” said ACLU deputy director, Lee Gelernt. “That remedy must include not only meaningful monetary compensation, but a pathway to remain in the country.”
Senate Republicans slammed the plan on Thursday afternoon following the WSJ‘s report.
“The Biden administration’s promises of citizenship and entitlement programs have already caused the worst border crisis in history—a huge cash reward will make it even worse,” said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).
The discussions about the payouts have taken place over the past few months among a group of dozens of private lawyers representing the families and government lawyers. Some government lawyers have viewed the payouts as excessive for people who had violated the law by crossing the border, the people said. One government lawyer threatened to remove his name from the case out of disagreement with the potential settlement offer, the people said. -WSJ
“It is a complicated, complex piece of litigation” – trying to resolve hundreds of separate lawsuits at the same time, and “sometimes even more complex to try the cases” said Margo Schlanger, who ran the civil-rights office during the Obama administration at the Department of Homeland Security and now teaches at the University of Michigan law school.
What will the reparations crowd think of this?
Politics
White House To America: ‘We’re Coming Door To Door…With Shots!’
Will CDC soon recommend a nation-wide re-count of Covid deaths?
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said at the daily press conference yesterday that President Biden’s strategy to get everyone a Covid shot – whether they want it or not – is to start going “door-to-door” to those not yet jabbed. So…they have a list? Also today: bomb-maker Raytheon goes “woke.” Capitol Hill Cops set up shop in California. Will CDC soon recommend a nation-wide re-count of Covid deaths?
Politics
Half A Million Illegals Crossed Since Harris Named Border ‘Czar’
By the time June’s figures are reported in the coming days, the combined number is expected to be over half a million, more than the entire population of Miami, Florida or Cleveland, Ohio.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures, around 500,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since Kamala Harris was named border ‘czar’.
The Washington Free Beacon reported the findings, noting that only three months has passed since Harris took on the responsibility, and that the half a million figure is just those that have been apprehended.
The CBP says around 180,000 immigrants are being caught per month. In April agents arrested 178,854 illegal immigrants, the highest monthly figure for 21 years. That figure was then surpassed in May as agents apprehended 180,034 illegals.
By the time June’s figures are reported in the coming days, the combined number is expected to be over half a million, more than the entire population of Miami, Florida or Cleveland, Ohio.
Harris only bothered to visit the border when President Trump announced he was making a trip. Even then Harris visited El Paso, some 1000 miles away from where the crisis is taking place.
Previous to this, Harris lied and claimed she had been to the border, telling NBC’s Lester Holt “This whole thing about the border. We’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”
When Holt pushed back and said she had not, Harris snapped “I—and I haven’t been to Europe. And I mean, I don’t—I don’t understand the point that you’re making,” then again laughed maniacally:
On Tuesday, Republican Senator Ron Johnson argued that Harris’ trip to El Paso was designed to distract the media and keep them away from the real crisis hit areas of the border.
“They took her to a point in the border where she wouldn’t see the crisis and so the press wouldn’t report on the crisis,” Johnson said.
The Senator added, “You just simply can’t understand what this administration is doing. We literally are apprehending now about 6,000 people per day. That’s I mean, that’s a large caravan every day being processed, some of them being returned, others are being dispersed. But this crisis is not going away. It’s just under everybody’s radar because the press isn’t covering it.”
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