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maxsolomon

(32,987 posts)
5. The EC objection process is in the Constitution. It's not Sedition.
Wed Jan 13, 2021, 07:22 PM
Jan 2021

They were within their rights to object. It was bullshit, of course, but Dems have objected previously, too: in 2000, 2004, & 2016.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/nation-world/objections-to-a-presidential-certification-vote-is-not-rare-dems-did-the-same-to-trump

It's a difference in degree, not kind.

Now, did they incite Insurrection? Different question.

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