Pascrell demands 126 members seeking to overturn election not be seated in Congress

[Nevilledog]

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Tweet text:
Bill Pascrell, Jr.
@BillPascrell
Today I’m calling on House leaders to refuse to seat any Members trying to overturn the election and make donald trump an unelected dictator.
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[randr]

1. This is a very sane and proper response

[Chin music]

5. Exactly. It's part of Congress's Powers.

Exactly designed for time like this.

[wcmagumba]

2. I wish they could/would do this but I have no idea about the actual procedures or laws...

involved and whether or not there would be any "teeth" to such an action...

[PoliticAverse]

7. There was actually a Supreme Court case the jist of which is Congress can't refuse to seat

legally elected representatives (Congress can only use their power of expulsion to get rid of such members).

And of course even if they could there is no chance of this actually happening.

[Proud liberal 80]

10. 'Legally' elected

So that means the Reps from Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania shouldn’t be seated then right?

[Pantagruel]

12. "Congress can't refuse to seat legally elected representatives"

They just signed a lawsuit claiming the elections were illegal. At least some of them are self-admitted illegally elected?

[PoliticAverse]

13. Well in 4 states anyway. And if Congress bought that argument they'd have to not seat the Democrats

elected in those states as well.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Do you recall Roland Burris (D-IL)

https://www.politico.com/story/2009/01/dems-accept-burris-into-the-senate-017366

The SCOTUS begged off the case and left the Appeals Court ruling in place that directed that IL hold special elections for the seat. But that didn't happen until a year or so later, and Democrats relented after much rancor, and seated Burris (after which he was replaced by Mark Kirk (R-IL) who won the special election the following year to fill out that term). Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) eventually won the full next term of that seat. Dick Durbin is the other Senator there.

The Senate also refused to seat Al Franken for some 7 months, even with all the court cases and the vote having initially been certified.

So yes, they can refuse if their rules so deem it.

[scarletwoman]

26. That's the Senate, not the House. Different rules.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Each chamber does their own rules

I.e., if the House rules allow it then it can be done and the SCOTUS cannot interfere with that.

[scarletwoman]

27. Link to the Supreme Court case to which you are referring:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powell_v._McCormack

Congress can exclude a member only by a two-thirds vote to expel.

[Chin music]

3. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

Completely righteous move Mr. Pascrell. TY.

[Pantagruel]

4. I just proposed that

Media outlets should henceforth refuse the 126 any airtime whatsoever. They are avowed enemies of the democratic process by signing on to this, deny them media exposure. Any future story in which they appear should clearly identify them as signers of the shameful amicus brief designed to author a virtual coup.

[Proud liberal 80]

11. I wish the media would do that

But they wouldn’t

[KewlKat]

6. I hope they can mAke it happen!

[usajumpedtheshark]

8. Agreed! Can you imagine the size of the protests if we weren't in the middle of a pandemic?

[2naSalit]

9. K&R

[BootinUp]

14. Just do it. Nt

[nebby70]

15. since we're living in an era of breaking norms ...

... perhaps this would be the best ...
... if the election was compromised, wouldn't their wins also be compromised?...
... oh nuts, that's right ... it's only votes for democrats is illegal ... I keep forgetting ...........

[Ponietz]

16. Certainly beats trying to play patty cakes with them

Fact: the old paradigm is dead

[Nevilledog]

17. NEW letter from Pascrell

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Tweet text:
southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Rep. Pascrell writes to Pelosi and Lofgren asking them to look into not seating the 126 amici in the new Congress, invoking Reconstruction era constitutional “safeguards to cleanse from our government ranks any traitors and others that would destroy the union.”
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1:38 PM · Dec 11, 2020
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[SWBTATTReg]

20. Exactly, and they should review and sign the oath of office too, redo it, since they seemed to have

failed in their duties as a duly elected representation to uphold the laws of the the US. They are not. If they don't sign their oaths they should be stripped of their elected offices and new representatives selected/nominated...they did this during the civil war (and I'm not 100% sure if they were appointed or elected via new elections at that time) when the confederate states seceded from the Union (or tried), thus, the federal government installed new governments (when each state was readmitted) and required a oath to honor and support the US government and the constitution.

[BComplex]

18. Here are these traitors. But you don't see gangs of democrats outside their homes,

threatening them and their kids.

We have 2 kinds of people in this country: civilized, and barbaric.

[soothsayer]

19. I love this!

Make it so

[bucolic_frolic]

21. It's a well-earned public shaming that will not age well for each and every one of them

Time for America, the real America, to bite these cockroaches in the behind

[smirkymonkey]

22. K&R

[PatrickforO]

23. Wow! I like the cut of Pascrell's jib.

You bet. They want polarization - they GOT it.

[mountain grammy]

24. up to 126..the fascists are falling in line.

[peggysue2]

28. Hear, Hear!

These men and women have demonstrated their unwillingness to protect the country and the Constitution. Their actions are seditious and there should be consequences for the bad faith and dishonor they've willfully enacted, as in forfeiting their right to be seated.

Enough is enough. Time to push back.

[ffr]

30. Let them wear their Scarlet Letter.

T for traitors and seditionists.

[bluecollar2]

31. The Democratic party should be taking out ads

On billboards on highways throughout the appropriate districts.

Make them look like mugshots.


Frontal and side face shots with the caption, "Wanted for sedition" or something to that effect.

But they probably won't...

We need to "work together, heal...." etc....

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

33. Right. Dems and the media ought to be harping on the Rs' treachery.

But obnoxious rats are so awful that they can't be honestly portrayed without that portrayal having an air of hyperbole. And Rs know this and depend on it .