Kowabunga, Buffalo Bob! The Head Groundskeeper here at Stately Blaska Manor is fire and brimstone on the January 6 insurrection but the alternate electors (as they shall henceforth be known) were, at worst, a failed legal stratagem — not a crime!
Who says? Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Harvard University — a respected jurist who is not to be sneezed at (or coughed on)! We’ll quote just enough of his essay in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to constitute fair usage and not Harvard-style plagiarism:
by Lawrence Lessig:
Sometimes, it is completely appropriate for presidential electors to meet and cast their ballots, even if their candidate has not yet been declared the winner in the presidential election. And that “sometimes” was true here in Wisconsin in 2020. …
In 1960. Richard Nixon had been declared the winner [in Hawaii] just after the polls were closed. John Kennedy’s team … challenged the results, but that challenge was not resolved by Electors Day. So Kennedy’s electors, as well as Nixon’s electors, gathered in separate places on Electors Day, and each cast their ballots. …
In 1856, a snowstorm blocked electors in Wisconsin from meeting on Electors Day. They were only able to cast their ballot the following day. Congress spent two days debating whether Wisconsin’s votes could be counted at all. In the end, it didn’t matter to the result, so Congress left the question unresolved (the votes were not added to the total). ….
That’s why in 2020, a lawyer working for Donald Trump, Kenneth Chesebro, recommended to a former Wisconsin judge, James Troupis, that the campaign ensure that in any contested state, Trump electors meet and cast their ballot for Donald Trump. Chesebro … in 2000 had worked for Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore in Florida. But the Gore team never bothered to have the Florida electors meet and cast their ballots. Had the results in Florida been reversed, Congress would have hadno votes from Gore to count on Jan. 6. …
The Wisconsin Supreme Court had ruled against Donald Trump on the morning of Electors Day, 15 minutes before electors were to vote. That decision was clear but not technically final: Lawyers representing Donald Trump still had the chance to ask for a rehearing. That rehearing would only have happened after electors were to vote.
Lessig’s Bottom Line: “Given the rules of the Constitution, the decision of the Wisconsin Republican electors to meet and vote was, therefore, completely reasonable.”
Another word salad mess that comes too late to mean anything. Fake…Alternate…Inmate. Call them whatever you want. Funny to see a professor from HAAAARRRRVVVAAARRRDDD now being praised after everyone dumped on that school for weeks. I wonder how deep DEI runs in his department.
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Heh! Professor Lessig is not the only Hahvahd associate who’s acknowledged sanity by kicking despicable Lefty in their miniscule ‘nads.
Billionaire democrat Donor QUITS PARTY Over Anti-Semitism On Campuses And ‘Reverse RAYcism’
MONEY QUOTE: “I Was A Bill Clinton democrat And What The Party Has Morphed Into Is Not Something I Want To Be Associated With”.
Whoa Nellie; THAT’S gonna leave a mark, am I right?
Anywho, quite simply, Lefty needs to understand that the fact-based Universe juuuuuuuust ain’t that into them!
The gotch
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Speaking of getting whacked in the nuts. A judge finally ended that clown show run by the righties and ruled Wolfe stays at WEC. End of story. No more lies and fantasies. No more wasted time and money. The Goobers On Parade look like fools AGAIN. But; the upside is we don’t have to watch those My Pillow ads since that broke ass Mikey can’t pay his bills.
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Another word salad mess that comes too late to mean anything. Fake…Alternate…Inmate. Call them whatever you want. Funny to see a professor from HAAAARRRRVVVAAARRRDDD now being praised after everyone dumped on that school for weeks. I wonder how deep DEI runs in his department.
Heh! Professor Lessig is not the only Hahvahd associate who’s acknowledged sanity by kicking despicable Lefty in their miniscule ‘nads.
Billionaire democrat Donor QUITS PARTY Over Anti-Semitism On Campuses And ‘Reverse RAYcism’
MONEY QUOTE: “I Was A Bill Clinton democrat And What The Party Has Morphed Into Is Not Something I Want To Be Associated With”.
Whoa Nellie; THAT’S gonna leave a mark, am I right?
Anywho, quite simply, Lefty needs to understand that the fact-based Universe juuuuuuuust ain’t that into them!
The gotch
Speaking of getting whacked in the nuts. A judge finally ended that clown show run by the righties and ruled Wolfe stays at WEC. End of story. No more lies and fantasies. No more wasted time and money. The Goobers On Parade look like fools AGAIN. But; the upside is we don’t have to watch those My Pillow ads since that broke ass Mikey can’t pay his bills.