GOP false fraud claims can become a feature

Even after getting past 6 January, the new Congress until the next election will have GOP members willing to repeat the same Trumpian foolishness.

As Raffensperger’s response to Trump underscored, individuals who carried out duties faithfully — including some GOP senators who will count Biden electors and state legislatures that refused to send alternate electors — are a big reason the system is working this time. But for how much longer?

“It’s important to underscore that the justification for objecting to Biden electors — numerous claims of fraud that have already been shot down in dozens of court rulings — is just as baseless as the one that Trump used to demand vote-rigging in Georgia.”https://t.co/AB4tiCi4LK

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 5, 2021

In a future presidential election, if Republicans control both chambers of Congress and similar objections are brought against a victorious Democrat’s electors, mightn’t they succeed in invalidating them?

“It’s become a lot easier to envision that in the last month,” Alexander Keyssar, the leading historian of U.S. democracy, told me. “I find this to be very worrisome — very disturbing.”

This is striking from a cautious academic like Harvard’s Keyssar. His great new book recounting the story of the electoral college, and his history of the contested right to vote in America, are models of meticulous scholarship. The latter recounts the worst democratic breakdowns in our history.

Now Keyssar thinks we’re seeing the portents of another serious breakdown. By seeking to invalidate Biden’s electors, Keyssar warned, Republicans have showed a “willingness” to “go down this path,” making this more likely to “happen again in different circumstances.”

Can you imagine the reaction if @IlhanMN filmed a video of herself defiantly loading a weapon and threatening to bring into Congress? https://t.co/zrDLzQxuKj

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 4, 2021

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‘Firearms are not permitted', police warn Trump supporters ahead of protest – video https://t.co/1LMi7it09s

— The Guardian (@guardian) January 5, 2021

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