copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-01-04): Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender who would lure young girls under the impression that they would be giving him massages that would then "become increasingly sexual in nature," according to the 2019 indictment against him. Jennifer Araoz, one of the victims, said that Epstein would invite her to his house and pay her hundreds of dollars after her visit. While they initially spoke about her life and goals, he later became abusive, Araoz said. [...] The former president’s ties with Epstein has long been the subject of media scrutiny—intensified in the wake of the financier’s indictment. The two had connected while Clinton was working on his nonprofit group the Clinton Foundation, and in 2002, they took a trip to Africa on Epstein’s private jet. [...] Computer scientist and former MIT professor Marvin Minsky was also mentioned in the documents. Giuffre said she was asked to have sex with Minsky when he went to Epstein’s island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Claim: Chief Justice John Roberts visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island. (Facebook posts, 2020-12-17)
Evidence (2024-10-05): - ^ Epps, Garrett (October 24, 2004). "Don't Do It, Justices". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020. Retrieved October 31, 2009. [...] - ^ Justice Roberts (September 21, 2005). "Responses of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the Written Questions of Senator Joseph R. Biden" (PDF). The Washington Post. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2009. [...] - ^ Liptak, Adam (June 22, 2016). "Justices Disclose Privately Paid Trips and Gifts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2021-01-03): The Twelfth Amendment details how Congress is to oversee the counting of electoral votes. But the power to appoint electors is given to the states. Congress or the vice president don’t have the power to substitute their preference or judgment.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2021-01-03): Congress’s task is simply to count electoral votes Jan. 6 [...] "Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state, as designated by those authorized to do so under state law," U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, said in a Jan. 3, 2020, statement signed by several other members of the House. "To take action otherwise — that is, to unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process — would amount to stealing power from the people and the states." [...] "There is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state’s election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented," the statement from Gallagher and the others said. "The text of the Constitution is clear. States select electors. Congress does not. Accordingly, our path forward is also clear. We must respect the states’ authority here. Though doing so may frustrate our immediate political objectives, we have sworn an oath to promote the Constitution above our policy goals. We must count the electoral votes submitted by the states."
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2020-12-15): Federal law requires the states to deliver certified electoral college results to the vice president, serving as president of the Senate, and other parties by December 23. Then a joint meeting of Congress is required by the 12th Amendment to count the electoral votes and declare the winners of the presidential election. The session on January 6, 2021 starts at 1 p.m. [...] The Electoral Count Act of 1887 and several federal statutes address questions about contested electors that land in Congress. The Congressional Research Service’s current interpretation of the Electoral Count Act explains its understanding of the process when it comes to objections to electoral votes. [...] The second scenario applies when two or more slates of electors from the same state are submitted to Congress, as was the case for the 1876 presidential election. It is unclear, said the CRS, if Congress could vote to discard a slate of electoral votes certified by a state if it followed its own election laws. "The assumption presented in the law is that only one list would be from electors who were determined to be appointed pursuant to the state election contest statute (as provided for in 3 U.S.C. §5), and that in such case, only those electors should be counted," the CRS determined.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2020-12-23): President-elect Joe Biden's victory is set to be reaffirmed early next month, when the new Congress convenes in a joint session to count each state's Electoral College votes. [...] Mr. Trump has refused to concede the election and has lost a slew of legal battles seeking to reverse its outcome, but the march towards Mr. Biden's inauguration continues, with the congressional counting of electoral votes the final step in formally acknowledging his victory. [...] In 2017, when the joint session of Congress convened to count the electoral votes and affirm Mr. Trump's win, Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri and Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota were tellers on the part of the Senate, while GOP Congressman Gregg Harper of Mississippi and Democrat Congressman Bob Brady of Pennsylvania were the House's tellers.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2022-01-05): Congress’s job is to simply count up each state’s electoral votes — with the vice president presiding over it all in a ceremonial capacity — and officially declare the winner of the presidential election. After that, all that’s left is to inaugurate the next president. The Electoral Count Act is a 140-year-old law that governs what Congress and the vice president should do in the case of a dispute about which presidential candidate won in a state. (A legitimate dispute about who won the presidential election actually happened in 1876.) [...] Trump and his allies twisted this law to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to try to throw out legitimate election results as Pence presided over Congress’s counting of states’ electoral votes.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2024-10-05): The 12th Amendment mandates Congress assemble in joint session to count the electoral votes and declare the winners of the election.[15] The Electoral Count Act, a federal law enacted in 1887, further established specific procedures for the counting of the electoral votes by the joint Congress.[16] The session is ordinarily required to take place on January 6 in the calendar year immediately following the meetings of the presidential electors.[17] Since the 20th Amendment, the newly elected joint Congress declares the winner of the election; all elections before 1936 were determined by the outgoing Congress. [...] - ^ 3 U.S.C. § 15, Counting electoral votes in Congress - ^ Jalonick, Mary Clare (December 15, 2020). "EXPLAINER: How Congress will count Electoral College votes". AP NEWS. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2024-10-05): Before the election, the political parties in each state choose a slate of electors: real people who ultimately cast a vote for the president. Very often, the electors are party officials or supporters. [...] The electors ultimately cast their votes in December, about a month after the election. Their votes are then certified by Congress in early January, when the president is confirmed and takes office.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Each State's Certificates of Ascertainment confirms the names of its appointed electors. A State's certification of its electors is generally sufficient to establish the qualifications of electors. [...] Choosing each State's electors is a two-part process. First, the political parties in each State choose slates of potential electors sometime before the general election. Second, during the general election, the voters in each State select their State's electors by casting their ballots. [...] It is rare for electors to disregard the popular vote by casting their electoral vote for someone other than their party's candidate. Electors generally hold a leadership position in their party or were chosen to recognize years of loyal service to the party. Throughout our history as a nation, more than 99 percent of electors have voted as pledged.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2024-10-02): The electors of each state meet in their respective state capital on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday of December (between December 14 and 20) to cast their votes.[19][22] The results are sent to and counted by the Congress, where they are tabulated in the first week of January before a joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives, presided over by the current vice president, as president of the Senate.[19][23] Should a majority of votes not be cast for a candidate, a contingent election takes place: the House holds a presidential election session, where one vote is cast by each of the fifty states; the Senate is responsible for electing the vice president, with each senator having one vote.[24] The elected president and vice president are inaugurated on January 20. [...] In 1887, Congress passed the Electoral Count Act, now codified in Title 3, Chapter 1 of the United States Code, establishing specific procedures for the counting of the electoral votes. The law was passed in response to the disputed 1876 presidential election, in which several states submitted competing slates of electors. Among its provisions, the law established deadlines that the states must meet when selecting their electors, resolving disputes, and when they must cast their electoral votes.[23][109] [...] - ^ a b 3 U.S.C. § 15, Counting electoral votes in Congress.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2021-01-05): "Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state, as designated by those authorized to do so under state law," U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Green Bay, said in a Jan. 3, 2020, statement signed by several other members of the House. "To take action otherwise — that is, to unconstitutionally insert Congress into the center of the presidential election process — would amount to stealing power from the people and the states." [...] "There is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state’s election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented," the statement from Gallagher and the others said. "The text of the Constitution is clear. States select electors. Congress does not. Accordingly, our path forward is also clear. We must respect the states’ authority here. Though doing so may frustrate our immediate political objectives, we have sworn an oath to promote the Constitution above our policy goals. We must count the electoral votes submitted by the states." [...] He said this in making the broader point that Congress is not tasked in this case with making "value judgements" about the legitimacy of those votes. That is a power left to the states. The role of Congress, as laid out in the Constitution and federal law, is effectively to observe the electors sent in by the states.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2021-01-04): The statute governing electoral vote counting in Congress prohibits debate and most motions, but supporters of Trump have one chance to object. [...] Congressional Research Service, "Counting Electoral Votes: An Overview of Procedures at the Joint Session, Including Objections by Members of Congress," Nov. 15, 2016 [...] Associated Press, "How Congress will count Electoral College votes," Jan. 4, 2021
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2024-09-12): The counting and certification of electoral votes at the Capitol in January — the first since the Jan. 6 riot in 2021 — will come with significantly increased security, the Secret Service said Wednesday. [...] The designation, a first for the certification of electoral votes, is an effort to avoid a repeat of the chaos nearly four years ago when a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol to disrupt that year's count affirming Joe Biden's victory.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2023-07-06): After Congress has met in joint session for the official counting of electoral votes, all Certificates of Ascertainment and Certificates of Vote remain available for public inspection at OFR for one year and then are transferred to NARA for permanent retention. House and Senate staff meet with OFR staff to inspect the Certificates of Vote in late December. If any State’s Certificate fails to reach the President of the Senate, the President of the Senate calls on OFR to deliver duplicate originals in its possession to complete the set held by Congress. Congress meets in joint session in the House of Representatives on January 6 to count the electoral votes. The Vice President, as President of the Senate, is the presiding officer, whose powers are limited by Federal statute to performing ministerial duties. The President of the Senate opens the votes of the States in alphabetical order, and hands them to the appointed Tellers, who announce the results out loud. The President of the Senate then calls for any objections.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2022-12-22): The omnibus spending bill includes a section that would reform the Electoral Count Act, a 1887 law that governs the counting of Electoral College votes in Congress. [...] "Imagine that there was a law on the books requiring you to travel by horse and buggy. That is what the Electoral Count Act is like," Rebecca Green, co-director of the election law program at the College of William & Mary, told NPR this summer. In the time after voting ended in 2020 and results were certified, Trump and his team argued that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the power to interfere with the counting of electoral votes because the law as it currently stands names the vice president as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress where those votes are counted.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2021-01-06): Wednesday is the culmination of the Electoral College process, when states’ votes determined by the results of the November 3 general election are formally counted during a joint session of Congress. We know the results – Biden won 306 electoral votes, beating Trump’s 232 – but the congressional session seals Joe Biden’s victory, ahead of his inauguration on January 20. Track the electoral vote count in Congress [...] Certificates of vote are the official tallies of each state’s electoral vote. Copies are sent to Washington for counting, but copies also kept in each state and by courts for backup.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2022-12-23): Congress on Friday gave final passage to legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of a presidential contest, the strongest effort yet to avoid a repeat of Donald Trump’s violence-inflaming push to reverse his loss in the 2020 election. The House passed an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act as part of its massive, end-of-the-year spending bill, after the Senate approved identical wording Thursday. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature. Biden hailed the provisions’ inclusion in the spending bill in a statement Friday, calling it "critical bipartisan action that will help ensure that the will of the people is preserved." It’s the most significant legislative response Congress has made yet to Trump’s aggressive efforts to upend the popular vote, and a step that been urged by the House select committee that conducted the most thorough investigation into the violent siege of the Capitol.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2021-01-07): Congress has completed the count of electoral college votes, with Vice President Mike Pence declaring President-elect Joe Biden the winner early Thursday morning. Congress completed their count of electoral college votes early Thursday morning, affirming President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Republican objections to some states did not prevail, but did succeed in drawing out a process that is usually a formality and forced Republican lawmakers to choose between honoring the choice of the voters or standing with President Trump. [...] "Many of us hoped that the presidential election would yield a different result, but our system of government has processes to determine who will be sworn in on Jan. 20. The electoral college has spoken," McConnell said. "So today, I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. The president-elect is no stranger to the Senate. He’s devoted himself to public service for many years." In a conference-wide phone call in mid-December, McConnell and other GOP leaders urged Senate Republicans not to join a long-shot effort led by conservatives in the House to challenge the electoral college results when Congress formally tabulates the vote Jan. 6. Read more » "I am a conservative Republican. Therefore, I must strictly adhere to the United States Constitution. The Constitution clearly limits the role of Congress with respect to presidential elections to the counting of electoral votes that have been certified by the states. The states, consistent with the principles of federalism and a limited national government, possess the sole authority to determine and submit their electors," Moran said, according to the Kansas City Star.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2021-01-06): But only the states have authority to appoint electors, in accordance with state law. Congress has only a narrow role in the presidential election process. Its job is to count the electors submitted by the states, not to determine which electors the states should have sent. The text of the United States Constitution, and the Twelfth Amendment in particular, is clear. With respect to presidential elections, there is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state’s election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented. Nor does Congress have discretion to disqualify electors based on its own finding that fraud occurred in that state’s election. Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state, as designated by those authorized to do so under state law. [...] The text of the Constitution is clear. States select electors. Congress does not. Accordingly, our path forward is also clear. We must respect the states’ authority here. Though doing so may frustrate our immediate political objectives, we have sworn an oath to promote the Constitution above our policy goals. We must count the electoral votes submitted by the states."
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2022-04-26): "The text of the United States Constitution, and the Twelfth Amendment in particular, is clear," they continued. "With respect to presidential elections, there is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state's election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented. Nor does Congress have discretion to disqualify electors based on its own finding that fraud occurred in that state's election. Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state, as designated by those authorized to do so under state law." [...] But only the states have authority to appoint electors, in accordance with state law. Congress has only a narrow role in the presidential election process. Its job is to count the electors submitted by the states, not to determine which electors the states should have sent. The text of the United States Constitution, and the Twelfth Amendment in particular, is clear. With respect to presidential elections, there is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state's election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented. Nor does Congress have discretion to disqualify electors based on its own finding that fraud occurred in that state's election. Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state, as designated by those authorized to do so under state law.
Claim: “Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.” (Mike Gallagher, 2021-01-03)
Evidence (2023-08-07): The Constitution names the vice president of the United States as the president of the Senate. In addition to serving as presiding officer, the vice president has the sole power to break a tie vote in the Senate and formally presides over the receiving and counting of electoral ballots cast in presidential elections.