A bipartisan Senate group announces a deal on reforming the Electoral Count Act
The plans were announced a day ahead of the House select committee’s final scheduled prime time hearing on its investigation into the Capitol insurrection.
The plans were announced a day ahead of the House select committee’s final scheduled prime time hearing on its investigation into the Capitol insurrection.
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 has been derided by legal experts almost since the time is was first written
Based on population shifts recorded by the 2020 census, Texas, Florida and North Carolina are among the states gaining representation, while California, New York and Pennsylvania are losing influence.
Letters from the state House and Senate played in to the narrative of Trump’s election-fraud lie, which led to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The votes came after Congress reconvened hours after violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, forcing party leadership to evacuate the scene while rioters overtook the complex.
Supporters of President Trump, responding to his call to head there, stormed the complex, resulting in violence in the seat of America’s federal government.
Their concerns have been already litigated in court and rejected by judges, many of them Trump appointees.
Members of Congress reconvene after pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol and halted election certification proceedings.
The eight representatives have already gone to court multiple times unsuccessfully — as has Trump’s campaign — seeking to block Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania.