“But unlike anyone else, the President is a branch of government, and the Constitution vests in him sweeping powers and duties, Accounting for that reality—and ensuring that the President may exercise those powers forcefully, as the Framers anticipated he would—does not place him above the law; it preserves the basic structure of the Constitution.” — Chief Justice John Roberts
January 6th was an attempted coup by Donald Trump and many Republicans in Congress, and Mike Pence, knew exactly what was afoot. We now understand that 100% of that effort went toward subverting the counting of Electoral College votes. Fake electors. Multiple states and legislatures participated in an orchestrated effort to use knowingly fake electors to subvert the will of the American people. Again, to subvert the Electoral College.
Leading Republicans in Congress, including ex-President Trump and the Speaker of the House, have already publicly stated they believe the election is being rigged. Leaders of many Republican controlled state houses are ignoring statutes concerning the appointments of electors, and saying so publicly.
The threat to our Presidential election comes 100% from the Republican Party.
We all know that, Democrats and Republicans alike. But, thanks to John Roberts our President can stop this in its tracks: Official Acts.
President Biden, as an Official Act, can declare that ballots cast by the voters are demonstrably, throughout our history, safe and secure, and that the threat to our free and fair elections stems solely from machinations to rig the Electoral College, that the use of fake electors in the last election prove that the threat is now existential, it exists, and that but for the Electoral College the Republicans would have no means, of interfering in the Presidential voting and counting.
The Executive Branch is responsible to oversee our safe and secure elections. The Republican’s claims of ongoing election rigging (by Democrats) are to be “solved” by using state laws to lock-in Republican Electoral College appointees no matter the vote.
As it stands today, Republican Senators and Congressmen, majorities of each, concur that they have no faith that this will be a free and fair election, and that there is already evidence that cheating, by some sinister forces, At the same time Republican states are claiming that their legislatures can pick the electors no matter what their Constitutions say.
All Republican roads lead through the Electoral College. The undemocratic Electoral College. The Electoral College that prevents the will of the majority of Americans from being fulfilled. The Electoral College, which, like the Supreme Court, is to used to lock in minority rule of our country.
This is un-democratic, this is un-American, and this is a direct attack on free and fair elections in our nation. And as things stands today, it is unstoppable. Unless…
Unless the President uses the power of an Official Act to strip away the true cancer in our elections: the democracy denying Electoral College, The Electoral College has always given disproportionate election influence to smaller states. controlled by Republicans, from have the say in this election.
Republican leaders in the Senate and House have, for almost 4 years, claimed the system is rigged and cannot be trusted. Their answer is to rig the Electoral College. Their efforts are a slap in the face to every American who ever cared about democracy.
What can absolutely be trusted are the votes of individual voters. Despite the lies Republicans spew, voting by each of our citizens has been safe and secure throughout time.
President Biden should use an Official Act to give our nation a taste of what real democracy is.