By Stephen B. Meister Commentary During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the Tenth Congress enacted the Insurrection Act of 1807, which was then signed by Jefferson into law, to foil the plot of Revolutionary War hero Aaron Burr—following the destruction of his political career after he shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—to raise […]
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17 States Urge Supreme Court to Review Texas Bid to Challenge Election in Battleground States
By Janita Kan Seventeen states are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Texas’s request to challenge the 2020 election results in four battleground states. The states, led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Dec. 9 underscoring that the case filed by Texas is of great public importance and requires the attention of […]
Overwhelming Evidence of Outcome-Altering Voting Irregularities
By Patrick Basham Commentary Voter fraud has a long history in U.S. elections. Since the nation’s independence, there have been 1,302 proven cases, resulting in 1,125 criminal convictions. This year’s election is likely to add to those tallies. There’s overwhelming evidence that outcome-altering irregularities occurred on and around Election Day. The Trump legal team has already submitted […]
This Election Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test
By Michael Walsh Commentary Let’s start with this inconvenient and overriding truth about the 2020 election: there is no such thing as a Joe Biden fan. Nobody actually likes Joe Biden, nobody admires him, nobody looks up to him. He’s no one’s idea of role model or an aspiration. Throughout his nearly 50-year career as […]
Trump on Election Battles: Legislators, Judges Need ‘Courage’ to Do What’s Right
By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump on Tuesday wondered if lawmakers or judges have the courage to help him challenge election results in key battleground states. “Let’s see whether or not somebody has the courage—whether it’s a legislator or legislatures, or whether it’s a justice of the Supreme Court or a number of justices of the Supreme Court. […]
Number of Congress Members Planning to Challenge Election Results Expected to Grow
By Zachary Stieber Trio working to convince senators to join them. The number of members of Congress who will commit to challenging the results of the Nov. 3 election during the upcoming joint session is expected to grow. “There’s three of us that have publicly said that we will refuse to certify Electoral College votes […]
Trump Says He Will Intervene in Texas’ SCOTUS Election Case
By Tom Ozimek President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he and/or members of his legal team would join, as intervenors, the lawsuit brought by Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton to the U.S. Supreme Court against four battleground states. “We will be INTERVENING in the Texas (plus many other states) case. This is the big one. Our Country needs a […]
States Back Texas in Supreme Court Suit, Alleging ‘Unconstitutional’ Election in Battleground States
By Janita Kan Several states have expressed their support for Texas’s bid to challenge the election results in four battleground states, which was filed on Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court. Attorneys general for Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri, and Louisiana have issued statements in support of a motion put forward by Texas asking the nation’s top court for […]
Troubling Foreign Ties Behind Voting Machines Used in US
By Bowen Xiao Behind a significant portion of voting machines used in the United States lies a complex web of questionable foreign ties, a hidden ownership structure, and transparency concerns with the software itself, as well as a connection between three key voting systems companies: Smartmatic, Sequoia Voting Systems, and Dominion Voting Systems. Information from lawsuits, public […]
Inauguration Committee Fails to Pass Resolution Acknowledging Biden as President-Elect
By Jack Phillips The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies voted down a resolution to acknowledge Joe Biden as the president-elect as President Donald Trump and other Republicans continue lawsuits challenging the results of the Nov. 3 election, according to several members of the bipartisan panel. There are three Republicans and three Democrats on the panel […]
Campaign Lawyer: Legislatures in Swing States Will Switch Electors to Trump
By Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump’s campaign is confident that at least one state legislature will take back the power to select electors and change to supporting Trump, campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis said Monday. While the campaign is continuing to press forward with lawsuits in swing states, Ellis said she and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani have […]
The ‘Move On’ Chorus Needs to Deal With the Facts of the Election
By Roger Kimball Commentary Ross Douthat is one of the faux-conservatives who The New York Times likes to keep around to provide respectable, buttoned-down window dressing to camouflage its more outré excursions. I’ve never met him, rarely read him, but I did glance at his recent column “Why Do So Many Americans Think the Election […]