Why is it wrong to question the 2020 election?
Presidential election challenges - a partial history
The January 6, 2005 challenges to election fraud in the 2004 election resulted in the Joint Session adjourning, with the two houses of Congress retiring to their respective chambers, as provided for under US Constitution. This requires only one objection from each of the two houses (viz., a Senator and a member of the House). Once they are in their own chamber, each house begins a session where a public trial of facts takes place in the form of a debate.
This was the House debate on the challenge to Ohio’s electors.
This is the process that had just begun on January 6, 2021, with Arizona having been challenged. When the two houses retired to their respective chambers, the Capitol was breached and the sessions were held in suspense for 11 ½ hours, during which time the event was positioned across the media as an insurrection instigated by Trump in an attempted coup d’etat, a clear case of treason. Once that image was painted, it re-colored the entire subsequent proceedings from one of an adversarial nature, to one of a meek, frightened consensus.
In the January 6, 2001 Joint Session (for 2000 election), there were a number of objections to the certification of the votes of several states (including Florida) by members of the House, but no Senator would join them. In these cases, the objections were ruled out of order and were not accepted, resulting in certification of those state’s slate of electors and the respective vote(s).
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