Despite Democrats arguing for years that President-elect Donald Trump is a threat to Democracy for allegedly pushing to overturn the results of the presidential election in 2020, some on the left have proposed plans where Congress could nullify the results of the 2024 election. An ally of former President Barrack Obama and a close friend of failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently described the possibility in an opinion piece published in The Hill.
In an article titled, “Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now,” Chicago investment banker David Schultz and New York City Bar Association president Evan Davis argued that Congress theoretically has the power to nullify President-elect Donald Trump’s decisive win over Vice President Kamala Harris. However, such a move would subvert the democratic interests of over 77 million Americans.
“To make an objection under the Count Act requires a petition signed by 20 percent of the members of each House,” one part of the op-ed states. “If the objection is sustained by majority vote in each house, the vote is not counted and the number of votes required to be elected is reduced by the number of disqualified votes. If all votes for Trump were not counted, Kamala Harris would be elected president.”
“To make an objection under the Count Act requires a petition signed by 20 percent of the members of each House. If the objection is sustained by majority vote in each house, the vote is not counted and the number of votes required to be elected is reduced by the number of disqualified votes. If all votes for Trump were not counted, Kamala Harris would be elected president,” the opinion piece concluded.
The sentiment expressed in the article echoes that of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) who claimed that Congress could disqualify a Trump victory, even at the risk of civil war breaking out. At the time, Raskin correctly assumed that the Supreme Court would rule that Trump could not be disqualified from Colorado’s state ballot based upon the “Insurrection Clause” of the 14th Amendment. Therefore, Raksin concluded that it would be up to Congress to disqualify Trump.
“And the greatest example going on right now before our very eyes is Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, which they’re just disappearing with a magic wand, as if it doesn’t exist, even though it could not be clearer what it’s stating. And so they want to kick it to Congress, so it’s going to be up to us on January 6, 2025, to tell the rampaging Trump mobs that he’s disqualified. And then we need bodyguards for everybody, and civil war conditions, all because the nine justices — not all of them, but these justices who have not many cases to look at every year, not that much work to do, a huge staff, great protection — simply do not want to do their job and interpret what the great Fourteenth Amendment means,” he said.
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