Monday 19 September 2022 10:02 PM Liz Cheney draws up legislation to STOP Trump from 'corrupting' Congress during ... trends now
Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney has introduced her own version of legislation to reform the Electoral Count Act that she says would prevent future attempts by former President Trump or others to try to 'steal' a presidential election.
The legislation, which follows a separate effort in the Senate, comes after experts identified ambiguities in the 1887, which sets out the procedures for certifying and counting the electoral votes for president.
Trump leaned in imprecise language in his repeated demands that former Vice President Mike Pence refuse to accept votes that were counted and certified by states.
The overturn effort featured in Trump's second impeachment, as well as probes by the House Jan. 6th Committee. There is a Justice Department investigation of the 'fake' electors scheme.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., introduced legislation to reform the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which governs how Congress proceeds with the the Electoral College vote in presidential elections
'Our proposal is intended to preserve the rule of law for all future presidential elections by ensuring that self-interested politicians cannot steal from the people the guarantee that our government derives its power from the consent of the governed,' wrote Cheney and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who serves with her on the Jan. 6 panel and was a House impeachment manager.
The lawmakers point to former President Trump's 'intentionally false election-fraud allegations' as well as the primary wins at the national, state and local level of candidates who 'also embrace those lies and other groundless conspiracy theories.'
'This raises the prospect of another effort to steal a presidential election, perhaps with another attempt to corrupt Congress’s proceeding to tally electoral votes,' they write.
The legislation appears to be on a fast-track. The House Rules Committee is set to meet on it Tuesday, with a House vote scheduled for Wednesday.
The bill reaffirms that the vice president 'has no authority or discretion to reject official state electoral slates, to delay the count in any material way, or to issue procedural rulings that have such an effect,' the two lawmakers write in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
The bill points to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, which states: 'The President of the Senate [the vice president] shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole
