Trump loyalists in Congress to challenge Electoral College results in Jan. 6 joint session (Update: Insurrectionists storm Congress)(And now what?)

[superchuck500]

I guess it's time to start a thread for this. We know that at least 140 members of Congress have pledged to join the objection. Under federal law, if at least one member of each house (HOR and Senate) objects, each house will adjourn the joint session for their own session (limited at two hours) to take up the objection. If both houses pass a resolution objecting to the EC result, further action can take place. If both houses do not (i.e. if one or neither passes a resolution), the objection is powerless and the college result is certified.

Clearly this is political theater as we know such a resolution will not pass the House, and there's good reason to think it wouldn't pass the Senate either (with or without the two senators from Georgia). The January 6 joint session is traditionally a ceremonial one. This one will not be.

Many traditional pillars of Republican support have condemned the plan as futile and damaging. Certainly the Trump loyalists don't care - and many are likely doing it for fundraising purposes or to carry weight with the fraction of their constituencies that think this is a good idea.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32717.pdf

 

[DaveXA]

Trump can't wreak any havoc without all the people who help and support him, so I put equal responsibility on all of those people too.

Definitely. Trump doesn't happen without the people who enable him.

 

[Optimus Prime]

It will be massively disappointing if this beefed up security isn’t called the FAFO Force
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The federal government will dramatically increase security protections for the joint session of Congress where lawmakers count states’ electoral votes, an escalation of government-wide efforts to prevent a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the Secret Service said Wednesday in a statement provided to The Washington Post.


The Department of Homeland Security has designated the next electoral count — scheduled for Jan. 6, 2025 — a National Special Security Event, giving the once-routine post-election gathering the same level of security accorded to presidential inaugurations and political conventions, the Secret Service, which will take over security for the count, confirmed.


“National Special Security Events are events of the highest national significance,” Eric Ranaghan, the special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service’s Dignitary Protective Division, said in the statement.

“The U.S. Secret Service, in collaboration with our federal, state, and local partners are committed to developing and implementing a comprehensive and integrated security plan to ensure the safety and security of this event and its participants.”……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/11/congress-january-6-security-repeat/

 

[MT15]

They’re still arresting them - great!!

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Never Forget.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I’m interested in seeing this

 

[MT15]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump’s lawyers made a last-ditch effort on Tuesday to limit the amount of evidence that could become public that special counsel prosecutors collected during their criminal investigation into the former US president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The prosecutors last week filed under seal a brief, which may be as long as 180 pages, to presiding US district judge Tanya Chutkan that defends the viability of the charges against Trump even after the US supreme court’s presidential immunity ruling.

Simultaneously, the prosecutors asked the judge to allow them to file a public version of the secret brief with quotations and references to grand jury testimony from some of Trump’s closest aides, such as his former chief of staff, and his former vice-president, Mike Pence.


To protect the integrity of proceedings and to protect lesser-known witnesses, the prosecutors said they intended in their public filing to redact specific names and use job titles to give context to the information being referenced.

The kinds of identifiers being proposed by prosecutors include, according to their filing: “Campaign Manager”, “Arizona’s Governor”, “Senior Campaign Advisor”, “executive assistant”, “the Defendant’s Chief of Staff”, “Georgia Attorney General” and “Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee”.

On Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers bitterly complained that the redactions were so specific that it would make public identification of the witnesses easy, accusing prosecutors of trying to damage Trump’s presidential campaign with fewer than five weeks until election day.

“In numerous instances, the redactions and pseudonyms proposed by the Special Counsel’s Office fail to meaningfully mitigate the privacy and safety issues the Office references in the Motion and has previously discussed at length,” the Trump lawyers wrote.…….

Trump makes last effort to keep hidden January 6 case evidence before election

Prosecutors asked permission to file public version of brief with references to testimony from Trump’s closest aides

www.theguardian.com

 

[superchuck500]

 

[efil4]

After her addressing the court ( further down the tweet ) here is the Judge addressing her.

Whoa.

 

[CoolBrees]

9 years is too light.

She should get 20 years lose her citizenship

Traitor.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

After her addressing the court ( further down the tweet ) here is the Judge addressing her.

Whoa.

His full length admonishment...

 

[fooferdoggie]

His full length admonishment...

traitor calling others traitor only in trump world.

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

Eagerly awaiting trump to deny he even knows her.

 

[efil4]

His full length admonishment...

Judge: Mr Case, anything else? ( defendant attorney )

Mr. Case ( rises and addresses court as he makes way to podium ): Yes your honor we have a motion previously filed for a stay....

Judge: yeah i already denied that.

( its at the very end )

Ouch.

 

[UriUT]

"My indictment has nothing to do with the facts".

 

[DaveXA]

"My indictment has nothing to do with the facts".

Good riddance.

 

[Booker]

What’s really great about the conviction is it’s in state court, so even if Trump gets back in office he won’t be able to pardon her.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Raju: What is your response to the president’s apparent reaction to his then-vice president, his life being in danger?

Mast: I don’t think that that should be categorized as anything other than hyperbole right there. He had said–

Raju: I think it’s based on the evidence that the prosecutors found, though.

Mast: He had Secret Service protection. Now at that time, we thought that Secret Service protection was the gold standard of protection and they would be keeping him safe. He was under protection. Okay. He’s being brought to a secure facility. Okay. That’s something that’s being done. It doesn’t really require a great deal of thought. And he wasn’t really in peril. That’s the truth of the situation.

Raju: They were saying “Hang Mike Pence” in the Capitol. You don’t think his life was in peril?

Mast: No, his life wasn’t really in peril. He was protected by Secret Service. That is a fact. And the people that came to the Capitol — as we know, it doesn’t like to get reported — the president told them to go there peacefully, not anything otherwise. But the unsealing of these documents by Jack Smith, that’s — clearly it’s political. That’s the point I would make, number one, this has political intentions. They want to affect November 5th.….

House Republican Tells a Shocked Manu Raju That Mike Pence ‘Wasn’t Really in Peril on Jan. 6’

CNN's Manu Raju was stunned after his guest Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) said that former Vice President Mike Pence "wasn't really in peril" on January 6 while protestors chanted "Hang Mike Pence" outside the Capitol. The conversation stemmed from what was inside special prosecutor Jack Smith's new...

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