Fox 8 perpetuates big lie of Trump and attempt to overturn 2020 elections, Triad NC article: “High Point University’s new law school dean reportedly helped Trump fight 2020 election results”
Fox 8 perpetuates big lie of Trump and attempt to overturn 2020 elections, Triad NC article: “High Point University’s new law school dean reportedly helped Trump fight 2020 election results”
Ignorance is not bliss.
For these otherwise nice appearing folks to sleep at night they must really drink lots of the kool aid.
From Fox 8 Triad NC.
“High Point University’s new law school dean reportedly helped Trump fight 2020 election results
The man named Tuesday as the founding dean of High Point University’s planned law school is a former jurist of renown who, according to the New York Times, worked behind the scenes to help former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
HPU named Mark Martin, former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, to head the law school it plans to open as soon as it is approved by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, the school announced.
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Martin was named in a report by The New York Times as being part of a “team of lawyers with close ties to the Trump campaign” and to being part of two controversial legal maneuvers that Trump used in his failed attempt to reverse his loss to President Joe Biden and remain in office.
In the in-depth report of the back story behind Trump’s maneuvering on and around Jan. 6, 2021, the Times said Martin worked behind the scenes in drafting legal opinions to support Trump’s unfounded claims of election fraud.
First, the Times reported, Martin was an author of the lawsuit in Texas that attempted to overturn Biden’s electoral victories in Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. That was dismissed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Then, the Times said, Martin reportedly advocated for what has become a pivotal issue in the run-up to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021: that Vice President Mike Pence could reject any state election returns and set aside the electoral votes.
That was a perspective that Trump and his allies pursued with Pence, leading to Trump’s publicly assailing Pence and, on Jan. 6, to calls from the mob of his supporters that invaded to Capitol to “hang Mike Pence.”
“At one point, Mr. Trump told the vice president that he had spoken with Mark Martin, the former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, who he said had told him that Mr. Pence had that power,” the Times reported. “Mr. Pence had assured Mr. Trump that he did not. Mr. Trump made the vice president defend his rationale in a meeting with lawyers whom Rudolph W. Giuliani had helped line up.””
Let’s begin with the simple.
No 2020 election lawsuits were dismissed by the SCOTUS on merits.
Per Law Professor and legal expert David Clements.
“He may have been the first person with his background in criminal casework to acknowledge that there was a ton of evidence revolving around the stolen election but 99.9% of the cases that were dismissed were dismissed on this thing called standing (i.e. claiming that a person doesn’t have a legal stake in a controversy).”
Elections are the province of the states and under the control of state legislatures.
Trump et al were not trying to overthrow legally cast ballots but were trying to get VP Pence to listen to those legislatures regarding illegally cast ballots.
VP Pence controversy.
Over 100 State legislators signed a letter requesting that VP Mike Pence delay the January 6th opening and counting of the electoral votes.
The following is garnered from several news reports:
“On January 6, 2021, you are statutorily authorized and required under the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to preside over both houses of Congress to count and record the Presidential electoral vote count to elect the President and Vice President of the United States. This congressionally set deadline, however, is not the supreme law of the land, and in fact must not supersede our state legislative authority under the Constitution. Moreover, the deadline is not necessitated by circumstances, especially when it truncates the fulfillment of our constitutional duties and our responsibility to the American people.”
“There are extensive and well-founded accusations of electoral administration mismanagement and deliberate and admitted violations of explicit election laws enacted by state legislatures in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,”
“Therefore, we write to ask you to comply with our reasonable request to afford our nation more time to properly review the 2020 election by postponing the January 6th opening and counting of the electoral votes for at least 10 days, affording our respective bodies to meet, investigate, and as a body vote on certification or decertification of the election. This action can be completed prior to the inauguration date, as required by the Constitution.”
List of original signers of the letter:
NameStateTitleAlexander, JulieMIRepArgall, DavePASenatorBarr, TimothyGARepBarto, NancyAZRepBarton, BrendaAZRepBeach, BrandonGASenatorBernstine, AaronPARepBolick, ShawnnaAZRepBorowicz, StephaniePARepBorrelli, SonnyAZSenatorBorton, KenMIRepBrandtjen, JanelWIRepBrooks, RobertPARepBrooks, RobertWIRepCarra, SteveMIRepClark, DavidGARepCook, BudPARepCox, JimPARepDavanzo, EricPARepDiamond, RussPARepDunahoo, EmoryGARepDush, CrisPASenatorEisen, GaryMIRepFillmore, JohnAZRepFinchem, MarkAZRepGilligan, SheriGARepGliem, BarbraPARepGowan, DavidAZSenatorGrantham, TravisAZRepGriffin, BethMIRepGriffin, GailAZRepGundrum, RickWIRepGurtler, MattGARepHorlacher, CodyWIRepJacque, AndréWISenatorJones, BurtGASenatorJones, JeffGARepJones, MikePARepKasier, SteveAZRepKauffman, RobPARepKeefer, DawnPARepKern, AnthonyAZRepKnodl, DanWIRepLangerholc Jr, WaynePASenatorLigon, WilliamGASenatorMaddock, MattMIRepMagnafici, GaeWIRepMaloney, DavidPARepMastriano, DougPASenatorMeerman, LukeMIRepMetcalfe, DarylPARepMontenegro, SteveAZSenatorMoul, DanPARepMurphy, DaveWIRepMursau, JeffWIRepNelson, EricPARepPayne, KevinAZRepPetersen, WarrenAZSenatorPhillips-Hill, KristinPASenatorPittman, JoePASenatorPullin, KenGARepPuskaric, MichaelPARepRamthun, TimothyWIRepRapp, KathyPARepRegan, MikePASenatorReilly, JohnMIRepRendon, DaireMIRepRigby, JimPARepRoae, BradPARepRowe, DavidPARepRyan, FrancisPARepSanfelippo, JoeWIRepSchraa, MichaelWIRepSilvis, JasonPARepSingleton, PhilipGARepSmith, BrianPARepSortwell, ShaeWIRepThiesfeldt, JeremyWIRepThompson, BruceGASenatorTownsend, KellyAZRepWard, JudyPASenatorWard, KimPASenatorWhiteford, MaryMIRepWichgers, ChuckWIRepWilmeth, JustinAZRepWozniak , DougMIRepZimmerman, DavidPARep
From Breitbart.
“Late Tuesday, 88 state legislators from five battleground states sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence in which they asked him to postpone the opening and counting of Electoral College votes, currently scheduled to take place during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress, “for at least 10 days.””
”The letter was organized Got Freedom, a 501 (c) (4) non-profit election integrity watchdog group that also organized a Saturday phone call with 300 state legislators that President Trump addressed.
“The letter was signed by 88 lawmakers, with more signing on by the hour, and similar letters have been signed by other legislators in the swing states, bringing the total to well over 100 total signatories,” Got Freedom said in a statement released late Tuesday.
“These elected officials are not asking Mike Pence to overturn the election results, and they’re certainly not trying to subvert our democracy,” Phill Kline, spokesperson for Got Freedom, said. Kline also serves as the director of The Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit public interest law firm.
“Rather, they’re simply requesting that they be allowed to perform the role required of them by the Constitution — an opportunity that in some cases has been actively denied by their own governors,” Kline added.
Under the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Vice President Pence, as President of the Senate, has a specific constitutional role to play at Wednesday’s joint session of the 117th Congress, convened for the purpose of determining whether or not to accept the Electoral Votes submitted by the Electoral College to Congress as part of the process of selecting the next president.”
From Just The News.
“More than 100 state legislators from contested battleground states have asked Vice President Mike Pence to delay by 10 days the congressional certification of the elections in their states so they can have more time to investigate irregularities and illegalities.”
“The appendix, the lawmakers wrote, "provides evidence of a coordinated and structured multi-state effort to undermine state law protecting election integrity."
"We intend on fulfilling our oaths of office by properly investigating and determining whether the election should be certified, or decertified, by our respective state legislatures," the letter added. "Additional time must be afforded for the legislatures to meet and for state legislators to fulfill their constitutional duties."
“Group organizers said more than two dozen other state legislators had confirmed they had sent other individual or group letters asking Pence to intervene Wednesday, bringing the total to 117.”
“Wisconsin State Rep. Joe Sanfelippo told Just the News he signed the large group letter because there are at least three mass illegalities that occurred during the Wisconsin election that have been confirmed since Nov. 3, all instances in which state officials made election changes that were not approved by the Legislature.”
What the state legislatures had to say.
WISCONSIN
Wisconsin Assembly Resolution 3 January 4, 2021.
“Whereas, the 2020 election and the recount of the results of the presidential
election have brought to light a number of areas in which the letter of the law is not being followed. Those circumstances of departure from the letter of the law include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Clerks provided absentee ballots to electors without applications, as
required by Wis. Stat. § 6.86.
2. Clerks and deputy clerks authorized by the municipal clerk failed to write
on the official ballot, in the space for official endorsement, the clerk’s initials and
official title, as required by Wis. Stat. § 6.87 (1).
3. Clerks issued absentee ballots to electors who were required to enclose a copy
of proof of identification or an authorized substitute document, but who failed to do so under Wis. Stat. § 6.87 (1).
4. Clerks failed to enter initials on ballot envelopes indicating whether the
elector is exempt from providing proof of identification, as required by Wis. Stat. § 6.87 (2).
5. Clerks in Milwaukee and Dane Counties declared electors in their counties
to be “indefinitely confined” under Wis. Stat. § 6.86 (2), causing chaos and confusion, and failed to keep current the mailing list established under that subsection; more than 215,000 electors thus avoided identification requirements and safeguards that the legislature has established.
6. Clerks and the boards of canvassers permitted absentee ballots returned
without the required witness address under Wis. Stat. § 6.87 (2) to be counted in
contravention of Wis. Stat. § 6.87 (6d).
7. Clerks who received absentee ballots with improperly completed certificates
or no certificates filled in missing information in contravention of Wis. Stat. § 6.87 (9).
8. The Wisconsin Elections Commission, in contravention of Wis. Stat. § 6.875,
barred special voting deputies from entering qualified nursing homes and assisted living facilities, instead mailing ballots to residents directly, thereby avoiding safeguards the legislature put in place to protect our most vulnerable citizens and loved ones.
9. The clerk of the City of Madison ignored Wis. Stat. § 6.855 and created an
event named “Democracy in the Park” and, of her own accord, designated alternate sites where absentee ballots could be collected; these ballots were counted in contravention of Wis. Stat. § 6.87 (6);”
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