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Liz Cheney Proposes Bill to Stop Trump Being Reinstalled as President
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2022-09-19 at 5:09 PM UTChttps://www.newsweek.com/liz-cheney-trump-jan6-wall-street-journal-zoe-lofgren-1744083
As part of the proposed changes, Cheney and Lofgren suggested updating the Electoral Count Act of 1887 on the basis of "four fundamental principles."
The first change will be altering the act to make it clear that a vice president "has no authority or discretion" to reject official state electoral slates or delay the count as part of their ceremonial role as presiding officer of the Senate.
As part of his attempts to overturn the 2020 Election, Trump falsely suggested Mike Pence had the power to stop the results being certified in Congress on January 6, 2021, even as the then-vice president said he had no constitutional or legal basis to do so.
Elsewhere, Cheney and Lofgren proposed narrowing the grounds in which members of Congress can object to electoral slates. Grounds which would be accepted include constitutional requirements for candidate and elector eligibility, as well the 12th Amendment's "explicit requirements" for elector balloting.
Once the objections have been filed, one-third of both chambers would have to approve for it to be entertained, and then a majority vote needed for it to be sustained.
Cheney and Lofgren also proposed that presidential candidates should be able to sue if any election official refuses to transmit lawful election results to Congress, and to have it written in federal law that elections can't change after the election has taken place.
"Our proposal is intended to preserve the rule of law for all future presidential elections by ensuring that self-interested politicians cannot steal from the people the guarantee that our government derives its power from the consent of the governed," the pair wrote. -
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