Nancy Pelosi Should Decline to Seat Unconstitutionally Elected Republicans
By: Dr. Dion
Tags: Politics, Election 2020, Congress, SCOTUS, Trump

State of the Union/CNN

Late last week, 126 Republican members of the US House of Representatives signed their names to an amicus brief that was submitted to the United States Supreme Court, the highest court in America. An amicus brief is short for amicus curiae brief which literally means a “friend of the court” brief. These briefs are submitted by persons who are not parties to or attorneys for a case but have strong interest or views about the issues of a case.

In this case, the Texas Attorney General attempted to petition the court to overturn the results of the presidential election in four states — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. AG Ken Paxton sought to overturn the results of the election in these four states because — according to him — election decisions were made by actors other than state legislators, which is — according to him — a violation of the constitution.

AG Ken Paxton Press Release

By signing on to the amicus brief, 126 members of Congress asserted:

This brief amicus curiae presents the concern of amici as Members of Congress, shared by untold millions of their constituents, that the unconstitutional irregularities involved in the 2020 presidential election cast doubt upon its outcome and the integrity of the American system of elections. [emphasis added]

There are 126 members of Congress — nearly 30% of the body — who doubt the results of the 2020 presidential election in four states.

Of the 126 members of Congress who signed their names, attesting to the court that they agreed that the presidential election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin should be thrown out, 17 were re-elected in those very same elections.

By attesting that they believe the election was conducted in an unconstitutional manner and that such actions violated the integrity of every vote cast and that the citizens’ trust in the electoral process was tainted and that they doubt the outcome of the election, these members have made a compelling case that they should not take their own seats in the 117th Congress.

There are 17 current members of Congress who each were re-elected to serve an additional term in Congress in elections that they believe were unconstitutional, that they believe were tainted, that they believe violated the integrity of every vote nationally, that they believe damaged the public trust in the American electoral system. We know they believe this because they signed their name on a document that stated this, and submitted it to the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Each of these members stated — in writing — that they doubt the outcome of their own elections. As constitutionally elected members of the highest legislative body in the world, there is no reason to doubt these honest, credible, and good-faith claims of irregularities.

Speaker Pelosi should decline to seat these members in the next Congress to help restore the trust of the American people. To deny them seats would be a great first step in achieving their stated desire — to restore trust in the integrity of the election process.