I support Donald J. Trump!
By Catherine Mortensen
If we learn anything from this week�s events at the Capitol, it should be this: millions of Americans feel forgotten, silenced and dismissed by the country�s ruling elites and t... View MoreBy Catherine Mortensen
If we learn anything from this week�s events at the Capitol, it should be this: millions of Americans feel forgotten, silenced and dismissed by the country�s ruling elites and they are demanding to be heard.
They�ve been heard, alright. But have they been understood? To grasp the totality of what is unfolding before our eyes, we must not only hear, but understand the voices behind the anger.
While the media focuses on a small group that stormed the Capitol, what about the larger group, upwards of a million peaceful patriots, who gathered? We marched not just to protest a stolen election. We marched to protest years of abuses heaped on us by government and institutional elites.
Our list of grievances is long. Here are just a few of them.
1. We are tired of being told to �sit the hell down and shut the hell up!� about our concerns about the fairness of the election.2. We are tired of a government that fails to protect our borders from illegal immigrants, who once here, disproportionately benefit from taxpayer aid programs and commit crimes without penalty.3. We are tired of federal bureaucrats such as former IRS official Lois Lerner who weaponized the vast resources of the federal government to harass private citizens.4. We are tired of intelligence agencies spying on private citizens such as George Papadopoulos and Gen. Michael Flynn.5. We are tired of deep state actors such as former head of the CIA John Brennan lying to Congress without consequence.6. We are tired of the CIA spying on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee responsible for overseeing and investigating wrongdoing at the agency.7. We are tired of seeing elected officials such as former Sen. Harry Reid gain access to the tax filings of private citizens such as Mitt Romney and leaking them to the press.8. We are tired of FBI agents lying to open a fraudulent investigation into a presidential candidate.9. We are tired of a government that allowed Hillary Clinton to go unpunished for mishandling classified national security documents.10. We are tired of a government that allowed Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice to go unpunished for lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi.11. We are tired of a government that paid Iran $1.7 billion in ransom money in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages and then lied about it.12. We are tired of a government that routinely allowed foreign competitors to take advantage of American workers in trade deals that resulted in the loss of millions of American jobs over many decades.13. We are disgusted with elected officials spreading lies about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh without consequence.14. We want no more of elected officials such as Adam Schiff who lie repeatedly about a hoax election conspiracy that resulted in a hoax impeachment trial.15. We are done with Big Tech censoring conservative voices.16. We are done with the cancel culture, which results in ordinary people losing their jobs over their conservative views.17. We are done with the doxxing of conservatives.18. We want an end to the harassment of Republican elected officials and their families at restaurants and homes.19. We want an end to Big Tech and the media censoring inconvenient news such as the Hunter Biden corruption story.20. We want the media and the courts to do their job and investigate widespread allegations of voter fraud in 2020 election.21. We want one system of justice, not the two systems we have now: one for well-connected Democrats and another for Trump associates such as Gen. Flynn, Paul Manafort, and George Papadopoulis.22. We want honest information from the media and government officials who have repeatedly mislead us about Trump, the Covid virus, and the lockdowns that have devastated millions of Americans.23. We want an end to parents having to do double- and triple-duty to educate their children at home, despite continuing to pay taxes to fund their local schools.24. We want our children to experience the joy of milestones such as proms, homecomings, and graduation ceremonies.25. We are tired of the liberal media covering for Biden�s failing mental health.26. We are tired of being attacked and insulted as being racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, Islamophobes, transphobes, etc. simply because they support Trump.
Did we miss anything? If we did, please send an email and we�ll update this list with your grievances. cmortensen@getliberty.org
Catherine Mortensen is Vice President of Communications at Americans for Limited Government.
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January 6: An Historic Moment or Hopeless Hail Mary?
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By�AL PERROTTADecember 30, 2020���21 Comments
Al Perrotta
Wednesday, January 6, is shaping up to be a day like no other in American history.�
January 6 is when a joint session of Congress meets to officially accept the elector slate from each state, and tally up the Electoral College votes. If a candidate tallies 270 votes he is officially elected President of the United States.
Usually this is a ceremonial matter. Like putting a wreath of flowers on the neck of the winner of the Kentucky Derby. The vice president � in his role as President of the Senate � opens the envelopes from each state and declares the number of electors for the candidate the state certifies as its winner.
But this is no usual year.
No Usual Year
President Trump and his team insist Joe Biden was improperly awarded several swing states through fraud, foreign interference and unconstitutional changes to election procedures.
Rep. Mo Brooks says dozens of House members will be exerting their right to challenge the electors from those states. The�right�comes from the Constitution and a law first passed by Congress in 1887.
Sen. Josh Hawley�announced�Wednesday he will challenge the electors. He pointed to the facts that some states didn�t follow their own laws and that �mega corporations� interfered in the election. Newly-elected Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has hinted he will join the challenge, and eyes are on Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Ron Johnson to see if they, too, will stand with the president.
The Daily Signal�s Fred Lucas explains�what happens�when an objection is filed: �The proceedings would stop and both the House and the Senate would be required to�debate the objection�for two hours. A Republican-controlled Senate and a Democrat-controlled House would have to agree on disregarding a state.�
Fat Chance Democrats Will Grow a Conscience
Barring clear and undeniable evidence of fraud or foreign interference, massive enough that even Democrats can�t ignore it, there�s fat chance the House will disregard the electors from any of the dubious states.
After all, it�s basically the same Nancy Pelosi-controlled House that impeached Trump over a phone call. It�s the same House that held up COVID relief for months simply to paralyze Trump�s chances. The same House whose leader Pelosi swore Joe Biden would be inaugurated January 20th, no matter what happened election night. The same Democrats that allowed riots to wreck American cities holding up the promise that the �chaos� would end if Biden were elected.
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A party that would burn business, bankrupt Americans and blackmail a nation to get rid of Trump isn�t going to grow a conscience now.
However, if, by some miracle, enough states are tossed to prevent Joe Biden from securing 270 electoral votes, the election goes to the House of Representatives. At that point, the vote would be by state, and Republicans control a majority of the states. Donald Trump would be re-elected.
Can Vice President Pence Knock Out the Dubious Swing States?
Is there another way to deal with the seven states haunted by credible allegations of fraud or foreign interference or that treated their state and US constitutions like toilet paper? (Even as I write this, Georgia lawmakers are being presented further evidence of voting fraud and irregularities.)
Perhaps. Some argue that Vice-President Mike Pence can toss the Electoral College count on its ear.
Under the�12th Amendment, he � and he alone � as President of the Senate oversees the joint session of Congress. �The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.� The argument is being made that this gives Pence the constitutional authority to refuse to accept electors from states whose elections did not follow the Constitution.
Vice-President Thomas Jefferson did something similar in 1800 before the 12th Amendment was enacted. He tossed the electors from Georgia. (Georgia posing a problem. Some things don�t change.) That decision, helped elevate him to the presidency.
Is the Law Constitutional?
Standing in the way of Pence is the 1887 law mentioned above: the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Drafted in the wake of the�1876 election disaster�and compromise, the law gave Congress a greater � if more muddled role � in settling elector disputes. In essence, it pushed aside the President of the Senate.
But does the Constitution allow that? As the�Epoch Times�reports:
The problem is, there�s a voluminous body of legal analysis arguing that the Electoral Count Act is unconstitutional. Congress has no business granting itself the authority to decide which slate of electors is the correct one and which votes should be rejected. Nor does Congress have the power to designate state governors as the final arbiters, a lineup of legislators and legal scholars have argued.
Among them is attorney and former Texas legislator Rick Green, who�argues in�The Stream�today�that the 1887 law is unconstitutional mush.
John Yoo and Brian Delahunt made the case last October in the�American Mind.��They say that since the President of the Senate counts the votes, �the inextricably intertwined responsibility for judging the validity of those votes must also be his.� That makes the act unconstitutional.
Congress, they argue, can�t tell any branch of government how to perform its duties, and that includes future congresses. They say �the better reading� of the Constitution lets the vice president �decide between competing slates of electors chosen by state legislators and governors, or decide whether to count votes that remain in litigation.�
As we know, the GOP has sent competing slates of electors from seven questionable swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. (Though the validity of the GOP slates is�debatable, since the governors of those states certified the results.)
More intriguing � or infuriating � the Supreme Court has not decided on the series of election-related cases before it. In fact, the Trump campaign�s lawsuit against Pennsylvania is scheduled for January 22 or two days after Inauguration Day!
So, under what obligation is Vice President Pence to accept electors from states whose elect results are still being disputed in the courts?
Former Judge, Rep. Louis Gohmert Sues Pence to Get a Court to Clarify the VP�s Power
Since the 1887 law and the 12th Amendment appear to be in conflict, it would be nice if there were some clarity as to what Pence as President of the Senate can � or cannot � do on January 6. To that end, Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas has now�sued Vice President Pence.
A former judge himself, Gohmert is asking a federal court to strike down the 1887 law and grant Pence the �exclusive authority� to determine which electoral votes to count. According to the suit, the court must judge whether the vice president is bound only by the 12th Amendment. If he is, he
may exercise the exclusive authority and sole discretion in determining which electoral votes to count for a given State, and must ignore and may not rely on any provisions of the Electoral Count Act that would limit his exclusive authority and his sole discretion to determine the count, which could include votes from the slates of Republican electors from the Contested States.
Gohmert says he filed the suit after being unable to reach an agreement with Pence�s lawyers. The implication? Pence�s White House lawyers could not be convinced Pence does have the �exclusive authority� to reject electors.
Or perhaps more accurately, are not convinced enough to advise Pence that he has the authority, knowing the outrage it would cause and the threat giving such advice would pose to their own careers in Washington.
Which gets to our final point.
Having the Guts to Catch the Hail Mary
You hear a lot of talk that the assorted efforts to challenge the election are a �Hail Mary.� In football, a Hail Mary pass requires someone on the other end who wants to catch the ball and win the game. In this election fight, from legislatures, to governors, to judges, to the DOJ and FBI and Republicans in Congress, few seem interested in catching the ball. They are perfectly happy to let the promise of free and fair elections fall to the ground, and the American Experiment with it.
Which is why Trump supporters by the hundreds of thousands are expected to show up on Capitol Hill January 6 for a massive rally. They will rally not only in support of President Trump, but to encourage lawmakers to make the leap, raise their hands, and grab that Hail Mary, and win one for Uncle Sam.
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Addendum: Not for nothing, but ��
The 1886 election was�not decided�until March 2, 1887, a full 115 days after the election.
The 1800 election was�not decided�until February 17, 1801, a full 109 days after election day.
The 1824 election was�not decided�until February 9, 1825, a full 106 days after Americans had voted.
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Al Perrotta is the Managing Editor of�The Stream�and co-author, with�@JZmirak, of�The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration. You can follow him at�@StreamingAl�on Twitter and Parler.�
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Governor Mike Huckabee has asked that we share this from Newt Gingerich:
�I�ve been active in this since 1958; that�s 62 years. I�m the angriest I have been in that entire six decades. You have a grou... View MoreGovernor Mike Huckabee has asked that we share this from Newt Gingerich:
�I�ve been active in this since 1958; that�s 62 years. I�m the angriest I have been in that entire six decades. You have a group of corrupt people who have absolute contempt for the American people, who believe that we�re so spineless, so cowardly, so unwilling to stand up for ourselves that they can steal the presidency, and we�ll wring our hands, bring in a few lawyers, and do nothing.
"My hope is that President Trump will lead the millions of Americans who understand exactly what�s going on: [that] the Philadelphia machine is corrupt, that the Atlanta machine is corrupt, the machine in Detroit is corrupt, and they�re trying to steal the presidency, and we should not allow them to do that.
"First of all, we should lock up the people who are breaking the law. You stop someone from being an observer �- you just broke federal law. You hide and put up paper so nobody can see what you�re doing �- you just broke federal law. You bring in ballots that aren�t real �- you just broke federal law.
"I am sick and tired of corrupt left-wing Democrats who believe that we are too timid and too easy to imtimidate, and therefore they�ll just go out and steal it...You are watching an effort to steal the presidency of the United States, and this is not about Donald Trump. This is about the American people, [who] have the right, in an honest election, with honest, legitimate ballots, to pick their leader. Or are we now just sheep, to be dominated by the high-tech businesses, the news media, and the various political machines?...This is a crisis in the American system, comparable to Washington on Christmas Eve or...Lincoln at Gettysburg. This is a genuine, deep crisis of our survival.�
Gingrich said that in any precinct in which Republicans were not able to observe, the votes should be taken back �- �strip those votes out, do not count them, because they�re by definition corrupt.�
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