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House Speaker Mike Johnson has repeatedly insisted that he would perform his constitutional duty — if he deems the 2024 election “free and fair.”When he was slinging french fries for a photo op at McDonald’s last weekend in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump fielded a question from a reporter who asked him if he would accept the results of the election no matter the outcome.
“Regardless? Yes, if the election is a free and fair election, and we pray and hope that it is. There’s a lot of work being done to make sure that’s true. I think this one will be so large there will be no question, and I think Donald Trump is your next president,” he said.
But if Harris wins the election and the House of Representatives retains its Republican majority, the path ahead is far more daunting. The 1887 version of the law was what Trump ally and attorney John Eastman cited when making specious claims in 2020 and January 2021 that then-Vice President Mike Pence had unilateral authority to accept phony pro-Trump electoral slates presented to Congress.
“Even in 2020 when it was the first time the system had really experienced this kind of attack through litigation, the courts did fine. State courts and federal courts handled everything quickly and reached the right results and didn’t let issues linger. We’ve had four years to strengthen and improve the process since then. I don’t think frivolous litigation will succeed,” Noti said.
American University Washington College of Law, said there was a clear distinction between objections in years past and what happened in 2021.“Sixty federal and state courts and judges, including eight nominated to the bench by Trump, rejected every claim of electoral corruption and fraud they advanced in 2020,” Raskin told HuffPost. “And yet they still tried to block the receipt of Electoral College votes from Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania and numerous other states.
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