Congress may change this arcane law to avoid another Jan. 6
The Electoral Count Act of 1887 has been derided by legal experts almost since the time is was first written
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.
Their concerns have been already litigated in court and rejected by judges, many of them Trump appointees.
The eight representatives have already gone to court multiple times unsuccessfully — as has Trump’s campaign — seeking to block Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania.
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