As you contemplate the fact that possible 140 House members and at least a dozen Senators are going to “object” to the certification of the election on Wednesday and demand a ten day audit of the election (taking the certification up to the 16th at the earliest) I’m sure you recall this:
Trump impeachment: ‘Let the people decide for themselves’ says president’s lawyer
Donald Trump’s legal team has closed their first day of defence arguments by criticising the impeachment prosecutors’ calls to remove President Trump from office.
White House Counsel Patrick Cipollone said voters should make the decision: “That’s what the founders wanted. That’s what we should all want.”
Sure. And all the Republicans except Romney voted to acquit Trump of his crimes based on that logic. Now they want to reject the will of the voters:
And Josh Hawley, the man who is leading the charge to overturn the election had a lot to say on that subject:
Apparently, impeaching a president under the rules laid out in the Constitution is usurping the will of the voters while pulling an unprecedented, partisan, sideshow even after the judiciary has already determined the election was fair is perfectly fine.
This is really beginning to worry me. I don’t think they can prevent Biden from being sworn in. But the fact that all these congressional representatives and Senators are willing to go this far is extremely unnerving. I’m no longer sure this is just an appeasement of Trump and his cult followers or even a way to rationalize further vote suppression. It’s starting to look as though they’re buying into the notion that this gambit is legit.