Democrats are salivating at the chance to see President Donald Trump walk out of the White House, hopefully for the last time, but at this juncture, that’s not a foregone conclusion.
For one, the president’s legal team continues to file court cases, as well as make their case regarding massive election fraud, to GOP-controlled legislatures in battleground states, where the evidence is damning and daunting.
For another, there is mounting support from Republicans on Congress to contest the electoral college results when lawmakers meet to certify them in early January – because of the overwhelming evidence that something is not right about the Nov. 3 election.
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Rep. Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican, has come out and said he will make a motion to contest the results because he is certain they are tainted on behalf of Biden.
“In my judgment, if only lawful votes by eligible American citizens were cast, Donald Trump won the Electoral College by a significant margin, and Congress’ certification should reflect that,” Brooks, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, told Politico. “This election was stolen by the socialists engaging in extraordinary voter fraud and election theft measures.”
Under Congressional rules, a formal challenge to electoral result certification requires at least one member of the House and Senate, Fox News’ Chad Pergram reported last month. So if Brooks can’t get a GOP senator to go along, then his objection will become a symbolic affair.
But he says he’s been engaged ‘indirectly’ with some senators and so the effort to contest, formally, is underway.
“A lot of time is being wasted in court … the Supreme Court does not have the lawful authority to determine whether to accept or reject a state’s Electoral College submissions,” Brooks told Politico.
“Under the United States Constitution and U.S. law, that is the job and duty of elected officials … And so it’s the United States Congress that is the final judge and jury of whether to accept or reject Electoral College submissions by states and to elect who the president and vice president of the United States might be,” he said.
For his part, the president thanked Brooks for his support and leadership on the issue.
“Thank you to Representative Mo Brooks!” Trump tweeted Thursday.
“I’m doing this because in my judgment this is the worst election theft in the history of the United States,” Brooks told The Hill this week. “And if there was a way to determine the Electoral College outcome using only lawful votes cast by eligible American citizens, then Donald Trump won the Electoral College.”
Brooks added that he is “not focused on what is in the legal pleadings in all these lawsuits all over the country.
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“There’s some number of votes that probably were illegal in some different places to some degree,” he told The Hill. “That is not abnormal.”
However, he added that it is “extremely difficult in a court of law to determine how many illegal votes were cast and who they were cast for.”
“And that is one of the reasons why the FBI, the Justice Department, and the federal judiciary are wholly inadequate for handling this issue,” he said.
We would agree, though it’s not as if the Justice Department is jumping through hoops to get on this, which is, itself, criminal.
