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Jan 6 Hearing: GOP lawmaker calls out Maryland’s Raskin over ‘motive’ to abolish electoral college
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A member of the Jan. 6 Committee is beneath hearth from Republicans for reportedly looking for to make the most of the hearings to advertise the top of the electoral faculty.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., reportedly divided a few of the members on the committee, arguing that the electoral faculty needs to be abolished to guard federal elections — subsequently tabulated by nationwide fashionable vote — from being purportedly subverted by individuals like former President Donald Trump, based on Axios.
In latest feedback to the Washington Submit, the Democrat known as the electoral faculty “an undemocratic relic” akin to the way in which state legislatures — relatively than voters straight — elected U.S. senators within the early days of the Republic.
Committee Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., reportedly opposes the notion, saying endeavors to abolish the electoral faculty would demolish the committee’s credibility.
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, informed Fox Information on Thursday that Raskin’s motive is an affront to American governance.
“He needs to get rid of the Electoral School, which is about as basic to our system of presidency because it comes,” he informed “Hannity.” “There is not any manner round this.”
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Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., offers her opening remarks on the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2022. (AP Photograph/J. Scott Applewhite)
(AP Photograph/J. Scott Applewhite)
“The U.S. Structure has fostered the event of the best civilization the world has ever identified. For causes that escape, astound and dismay me, the fashionable Democratic Occasion needs to throw it beneath the bus.”
Raskin’s endeavor, Lee stated, can also be simply the most recent in a line of left-wing behaviors undermining the Structure and rule of legislation, pointing to intimidation techniques in opposition to Supreme Courtroom justices and calls from Democratic lawmakers, like Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York, to undemocratically “pack” the Supreme Courtroom.
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“All these efforts to denigrate the Structure and our system, you’ll be able to draw a constant thread between the statements of Jamie Raskin, the efforts to protest exterior Supreme Courtroom justices houses, efforts to assassinate Supreme Courtroom justices” and extra, he stated.
“It is counter to all the things we imagine in about constitutional authorities.”