{"id":1652011,"date":"2022-09-21T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652011"},"modified":"2022-09-21T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T21:20:50","slug":"house-passes-election-bill-that-makes-it-harder-to-decertify-presidential-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-election-bill-that-makes-it-harder-to-decertify-presidential-results\/","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Election Bill That Makes It Harder to Decertify Presidential Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-passes-election-bill-that-makes-it-harder-to-decertify-presidential-results%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652011&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House of Representatives on Sept. 21 passed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-election-law\">election law<\/a> bill designed to address President Donald Trump\u2019s legal efforts to decertify some electoral slates in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, dubbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/8873\/text?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Cheney%22%2C%22Cheney%22%5D%7D&amp;r=1&amp;s=8\">the Presidential Election Reform Act<\/a>, passed in a mostly-party line vote with a handful of GOP defections. The final vote, coming in at 229\u2013203, included the support of 221 Democrats and nine Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>During the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump was trying to determine how to move forward on his claims of widespread election fraud, lawyer John Eastman was among the attorneys in Trump\u2019s inner circle who supported an effort to refuse to certify electoral slates from states where concerns of election fraud were most prevalent.<\/p>\n<p> The 12th Amendment <\/p>\n<p>Eastman\u2019s position\u2014that Vice President Mike Pence had the power under the 12th Amendment to reject some electoral slates\u2014was heavily taken to by Trump, who tried to convince Pence to refuse to certify some electoral slates.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the effort centered on an ambiguous line in the 12th Amendment, passed after the near-crisis of the election of 1800 which saw Congress go through dozens of ballots before finally declaring Thomas Jefferson the winner.<\/p>\n<p>That line reads \u201cthe President of the Senate [i.e., the vice president] shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eastman proposed that Pence could legally refuse to count the ballots of states deemed most at risk of election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of Trump\u2019s 2021 effort have said that the Constitution only intends for the vice president\u2019s role in the Jan. 6 certification of electoral slates to be a \u201cceremonial\u201d one, while proponents of the effort have pointed to similar events in the past, particularly in regards to the presidential elections of 1800, 1876, and 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives on Sept. 21 passed an election law bill designed to address President Donald Trump\u2019s legal efforts to decertify some electoral slates in 2021. The bill, dubbed the Presidential Election Reform Act, passed in a mostly-party line vote with a handful of GOP defections. The final vote, coming in at 229\u2013203, included [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}