For the past year unhinged Democrats, such as Communist-aligned Rep. Jamie Raskin, have periodically announced plans to stop the certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s election.
Indeed, as recently as December 27, 2024, Far Left “legal scholars” were floating ideas on how Democrats might prevent President Trump from returning to the Oval Office.
Evan A. Davis, a Columbia Law School-educated lawyer, and David M. Schulte, a former law clerk for Justice Potter Stewart, argued that Trump should be blocked from taking office based on the 14th Amendment, which bars any individual involved in an insurrection from holding a federal office. In an op-ed published in The Hill, the authors contended that Trump’s involvement in the Capitol “attack” disqualified him from the presidency.
"The evidence of Trump’s involvement in insurrection is overwhelming, and the law is clear," Davis said. "Democrats would be justified in rejecting his certification based on this constitutional requirement." Schulte further emphasized the legal responsibility of Congress to ensure that only eligible candidates are certified.
Davis and Schulte also cite the Electoral Count Act, which lays out procedures for disputing the results of a presidential election. They argue that the law allows Congress to reject electoral votes from states where the candidate is constitutionally disqualified. Their argument builds on the premise that Trump’s participation in the insurrection makes his electoral votes "irregularly given," thus justifying their rejection, reported econotimes.com.
To quantify just how disingenuous Davis and Schulte are in their “analysis” one needs only look to the Supreme Court case in which the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a similar effort in Colorado. The Court ruled that states cannot disqualify a presidential candidate, but Davis and Schulte believe the situation is different when Congress is tasked with certifying the results.
The problem is that no court has ever charged Mr. Trump with “insurrection” and absent such an adversarial proceeding where Trump has all his constitutional due process rights recognized and protected the claims that he was involved in an “insurrection” are nothing more than meaningless political dicta.
Likewise, Congress has held no hearings in which Mr. Trump was afforded his due process rights, and beyond Nancy Pelosi’s discredited January 6 Committee hearings, Congress has taken no action regarding the events of January 6, 2021.
Indeed, with Democrats in control of both chambers of Congress they did not charge Trump with “insurrection” or pass legislation barring him from public office under the 14th Amendment.
So, where did that leave congressional Democrats when yesterday’s session to certify the results of the 2024 election for President opened?
For a short answer the letters S-O-L come immediately to mind.
In the end the whole election certification process happened swiftly and without unrest. One by one, the state results were read aloud by the tellers as senators and representatives sat in seats in the House chamber. Vice President-elect JD Vance joined his former colleagues. Within half an hour the process was done.
Accepting reality, Democrats, who have raised symbolic objections in the past, including during the disputed 2000 election that Al Gore lost to George W. Bush, that was ultimately decided by the Supreme Court and Trump’s 2016 victory, have no intention of objecting, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in firm rejection of Davis and Schulte’s disingenuous proposal to oppose the certification of Donald Trump’s 2024 landslide victory.
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