{"id":2378796,"date":"2024-12-11T08:41:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-targets-rogue-officials-after-u-s-senate-recount-dust-up-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T08:45:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:45:30","slug":"bill-targets-rogue-officials-after-u-s-senate-recount-dust-up-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-targets-rogue-officials-after-u-s-senate-recount-dust-up-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill targets \u2018rogue\u2019 officials after U.S. Senate recount dust-up &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fbill-targets-rogue-officials-after-u-s-senate-recount-dust-up-washington-examiner%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=2378796&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>A new bill\u200b is being proposed in Pennsylvania \u2064aimed at holding local officials accountable for defying election laws. Rep. joe D\u2019Orsie, a Republican\u2064 from York, is spearheading legislation that would grant the state House the authority to remove county and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breyers-departure-could-make-the-supreme-court-more-conservative\/\" title=\"Breyer\u2019s Departure Could Make the Supreme Court More Conservative\">municipal officials<\/a> from office, \u200csimilar to the impeachment process, with the\u2063 final decision requiring voter approval. This move comes in response \u2063to\u200c a controversial decision by Bucks County \u200dCommissioners, who counted approximately 400 ballots that had dating errors during a tightly contested Senate race between incumbent U.S. Senator \u200cBob Casey Jr. and his Republican challenger, Dave McCormick.The bill has garnered support \u2063from D&#8217;Orsie and \u2064members of\u2063 the Pennsylvania Freedom\u200c Caucus, emphasizing the \u200cneed for election integrity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Bill targets &lsquo;rogue&rsquo; officials after U.S. Senate recount dust-up<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1909066\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &ndash; Local officials caught defying Pennsylvania election law may find themselves without a job.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Rep. Joe D&rsquo;Orsie, R-York, is drafting legislation that would give the state House the power to remove county and municipal officials from office. It&rsquo;s similar to the impeachment process and would ultimately require voter approval.<\/p>\n<p>D&rsquo;Orsie and other members of the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus back the bill after Bucks County Commissioners voted to count roughly 400 ballots with dating errors amid a razor-thin race between incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and his Republican challenger Dave McCormick.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pennsylvania voters shouldn&rsquo;t have to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">tolerate rogue county officials openly usurping state law<\/a> to satisfy their own political whims,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This legislation establishes a process for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-senate-frontrunner-fundraises-with-radical-san-francisco-liberals-to-flip-wisconsin\/\" title=\"Dem Senate Frontrunner Fundraises With Radical San Francisco Liberals to Flip Wisconsin\">local voters<\/a> to decide whether a county or municipal official should be removed from office after an offense like we witnessed in Bucks County.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/buckscopa.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/506\/media\">During a Nov. 14 meeting,<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;Commission Chairwoman Diane Ellis-Marseglia said she knew counting the votes defied the state Supreme Court&rsquo;s ruling, but she didn&rsquo;t care.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think we all know that precedent by a court does not matter anymore in this country, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bucks-county-commissioners-vote-to-count-illegal-ballots-in-pennsylvania-recount-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Bucks County commissioners vote to count illegal ballots in Pennsylvania recount - Washington Examiner\">people violate laws anytime<\/a> they want,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;So for me, if I violate this law, it&rsquo;s because I want a court to pay attention.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And pay attention they did. Four days after the board&rsquo;s action,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_86cad14e-a5f7-11ef-b397-ffee35221c13.html\">the state Supreme Court reaffirmed<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;that the ballots were defective.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-3 order came after the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/news-and-statistics\/cases-of-public-interest\/no-136-mm-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>state and national Republican Party filed<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;for extraordinary relief over the issue, which also unfolded in Centre, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties.<\/p>\n<p>In a concurring statement, Justice Kevin Brobson reminded local officials they lack any authority to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-ways-democrats-can-fight-gop-officials-warning-biden-might-not-make-it-on-the-ballot-in-november\/\" title=\"Four strategies Democrats can employ to combat GOP officials&#039; concerns about Biden&#039;s candidacy in the upcoming November election\">interpret state law<\/a>. Justices David Wecht and Sally Updyke Mundy agreed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I write separately to disabuse local elections officials of the notion that they have the authority to ignore Election Code provisions that they believe are unconstitutional,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Only the courts under our charter may declare a statute, or provision thereof, unconstitutional.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Casey&rsquo;s campaign said tossing ballots with dating errors disenfranchised voters. McCormick made the same argument, unsuccessfully, in 2022 after he lost to Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Oz faced off against Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate who ultimately won the seat by more than 5 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/pennsylvania\/article_e231a784-a85d-11ef-bdd8-9fdf4dcc4598.html\">Casey conceded to McCormick<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;17 days after the polls closed on Nov. 5 as the former hedge fund CEO&rsquo;s 17,000-vote lead appeared to be holding &ndash; even amid an automatic recount.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick&rsquo;s campaign said the outcome was a foregone conclusion and shouldn&rsquo;t have cost taxpayers $1 million to reaffirm.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Pennsylvanians deserve action after tyrants seek to undermine our institutions,&rdquo; said Rep. Robert Leadbeter, R-Bloomsburg, who chairs the Freedom Caucus. &ldquo;At a time when confidence in our election process is waning, the least responsible thing to do as legislators is to turn a blind eye and leave illicit behavior unchecked. The Freedom Caucus is proud to lead the charge to right this wrong.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1909066\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1909066\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill aims to remove &#8216;rogue&#8217; officials after Senate recount issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2378797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Pennsylvania_Legislature_Campaign_1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3895,46567,46568],"class_list":["post-2378796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bill","tag-rogueofficials","tag-senaterecount"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Pennsylvania_Legislature_Campaign_1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378796","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378800,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378796\/revisions\/2378800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}