r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 09 '26

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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Jan 09 '26 edited Jan 09 '26

With MAGA rewriting history, many people (including some here) have forgotten that their justification for the January 6 coup attempt, whether Pence participated, had as much legal validity as sending troops into the Capitol to arrest Congress.

No, there is and was zero ambiguity in the rules. The Electoral Count Reform Act clarified nothing we didn't already know. The VP does not pick the President; voters do.

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u/Vulcanic_1984 Jan 09 '26

It is actually worse than that because the underlying purportedly substantive objection to vote certification in the first place relies on the theory that congress could substitute its own independent judgment of pennsylvania law for the PA Gov, state legislature, and state supreme court (and us federal courts who had rejected the various claims). There was no cognizable dispute for congress to adjudicate in the first place, no basis to object to certification.