Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 30, 2020 by Sundance

Earlier today Missouri Senator Josh Hawley announced his intent to challenge the January 6th congressional certification of the electors.  A group of approximately 30 House representatives, led by Mo Brooks,  will be challenging from the lower chamber.

This sets up a dynamic where formal electoral challenges from both chambers of congress will be taking place based on evidence of election fraud in several key states.  The objection will initiate a debate and roll-call vote to certify electors within both the House and Senate.  Vice-President Mike Pence will preside over the debate in the Senate.

A combination of The Guarantee Clause (constitution) and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (law), establishes the framework for some to argue a fraudulent 2020 election result can successfully be challenged during congressional certification on January 6, 2021. Thus five state legislatures -under Republican control- have sent dual-sets of electors to congress: Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

[Article IV – Sec.4] The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

“The Guarantee Clause” – “At its core, the Guarantee Clause provides for majority rule. A republican government is one in which the people govern through elections. This is the constant refrain of the Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton, for example, put it this way in The Federalist No. 57: “The elective mode of obtaining rulers is the characteristic policy of republican government.” [citation]  “The Clause requires the United States to prevent any state from imposing rule by monarchy, dictatorship, aristocracy, or permanent military rule, even through majority vote. Instead, governing by electoral processes is constitutionally required.”

Let us be clear… There is little framework for this type of constitutional issue. This is  uncharted territory, and consequently there is no body of law or case study upon which to apply a historic reference.   However, that said, the issue of Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, producing a report about foreign election interference could be a fulcrum issue upon which “The Guarantee Clause” of the constitution may apply.

Here’s where it gets interesting….  The Guarantee Clause puts the jurisdiction in the hands of the political bodies, executive branch and legislative branch, to decide the merit of any state vulnerability in their election outcome.   There is little, if any, place for the judicial branch to play a role.

In Luther v. Borden (1849), the Supreme Court held questions involving the Guarantee Clause nonjusticiable, meaning that any remedy for a violation would lie with Congress or the President, not the federal judiciary. Nearly one hundred years later, the Court sweepingly declared that the guarantee of a republican form of government cannot be challenged in court. Colegrove v. Green (1946). (citation)

The federal government, not the state government, ultimately holds the responsibility to protect the entire United States from foreign interference within the Guarantee Clause. This would seem to apply to foreign election interference.  “[B]ecause protection against invasion or domestic violence is normally available only from Congress and the President, the structure of this section suggests that the political branches have at least the primary duty to carry out its obligations.”

If DNI Ratcliffe produces a report (prior to January 6th) that outlines foreign interference in the election; and if the argument can be made the states with the contested (dual sets) of electors were subjects/targets of that interference; then a foundation to nullify the electors from the contested states is laid in congress.

In this approach the electoral nullification argument would appear to rest on The Guarantee Clause; where the state election outcome was not valid – as it is not representative of a republican form of government, and the majority vote requirement was manipulated.

If this type of legislative challenge was to take place, there is little precedent for the judicial branch to be involved except to qualify what role The Guarantee Clause would/could play and to what extent the nullification arguments are constitutionally valid.

Again, this is all uncharted territory.  However, there are people claiming this process could work to keep President Trump in office.   The disqualification of the contested state electors under this argument would ultimately fall upon Vice President Mike Pence who is also President of the Senate and in charge of the January 6th electoral vote certification.

There is a lot of “if-this-then” etc within this framework, and all of it ultimately is predicated on congress challenging the election (now appears likely); and VP Mike Pence then deciding which electors would be certified or nullified (long-shot); but that seems to be the argument some are making.

Immediately after Senator Hawley made his announcement, incredibly the multinational retail corporation Wal Mart responded via twitter with a snarky reply.

Good grief, it is stunning that Walmart would allow such a response.   I will never step foot in their store ever again.

Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on December 30, 2020 by Sundance

With the Georgia senate run-off race only a few days away, members of Georgia’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Elections and members of the Senate Judiciary committee will hold a hearing to study Georgia’s Election laws, and their past and present impact on the current Election cycle.  The Hearing begins at 9am ET.

RSBN Livestream Link – Georgia Senate Livestream Link

But what alternative do Americans have?

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Dr. Brad Lyles —— Bio and Archives—December 29, 2020

In the past several days pro-Trump pundits began floating the idea that Vice-President/President of the Senate, Mike Pence, actually possesses plenary power to accept or reject Electoral votes he believes are fraudulent or fraudulently certified. 

These Trump-supporters point to the 12^th Amendment as the basis for this allegation. However, an unbiased reading of the 12^th Amendment does not at first glance support this perspective. But… recent scholarship makes a compelling case for the assertion that the 12^th Amendment indeed grants the Vice President/President of the Senate such plenary powers over acceptance of Electoral votes. 

And if this is true, and if VP Pence were to nullify sufficient slates of Electors (even if he did not endorse competing slates of Republican Electors), the 2020 election would then transition into what is called a Contingent Election in the House of Representatives – the same form of election that elected Thomas Jefferson President. And a Contingent Election will re-elect Donald Trump – because such an election assigns each State only one vote – and Republicans control the majority of the votes because they control the majority of the States. 

The ultimate preparation for a 12^th Amendment battle is what our rag-tag teams of attorneys and activists are already doing: Building, refining, and organizing the mountains of evidence for election-changing fraud in the Six Swing States. 

Since Election Night on November 3 these teams have also labored to rally support among Swing State Legislators, urging them to recall or nullify their State’s current slates of fraudulent Electors. These teams have invoked every possible mechanism to this end but have succeeded only in carrying off sparsely attended legislative informational hearings with no backing of leadership. Yet, their efforts are slowly having an effect. 

This ‘persuade the State Legislators’ tactic is ongoing and remains a pivotal element on the path to reclaiming our stolen election. To this end all readers who support Trump must continue to call and email these State Legislators every single day between now and January 6, when the Electoral votes are formally counted. 

(I would be honored to email my csv files of the email addresses of State legislators from GA, PA, WI and AZ – thus permitting you to compose your email text  and then paste the email addresses into it – and hit Send). I also have example emails available (drawn from the ones I’ve sent nearly every day since the election). My email: williamlyles@hotmail.com.

The ultimate goal of this State Legislator initiative is to accumulate as many of their voices as possible calling into question the legitimacy of their own  State’s election and communicating their allegations directly to VP Mike Pence – ASAP – and to Republicans in the U.S. House and Senate. 

The greater the number of  State legislator declarations the greater the justification for VP Pence to invalidate Electors from the Swing States. And, it must be kept in mind that VP Pence does not have to ‘replace’ the fraudulent Electors with Trump Electors – he merely needs to take the currently fraudulently certified Electors out of play. 

To the extent he can do this, if it knocks both Biden and Trump below 270 votes, the wondrous Contingent Election, described above, can begin – which we win.  

In addition to the “State Legislator initiative” described above, between now and January 6 Patriots need to overwhelm U.S. Republican House members and Senators – especially the Senators – with phone calls and emails. 

We must demand of our Republican U.S. legislators that they OBJECT to the fraudulent slates of Electors from the Six scandalous Swing States. In particular, they must take whatever action is necessary that will lead to a Contingent Election. 

Note: Phone calls are best because no U.S. Congressperson provides a direct email address – only those useless ‘form’ email boxes. 

However, to date we do not have any Senators on the record confirming they will join a House member in Objecting to slates of Electors on January 6. At least one Senator is required for each Objection. We need to warn our Senators – now – that if they fail to act – aggressively – we will initiate Primary and Recall initiatives  against them, beginning January 7, and without end. 

We come now to the the third initiative comprising the “12^th Amendment Plan” – the VP Pence initiative: VP Pence needs to be overwhelmed with emails and phone calls from Republicans, prevailing upon him to courageously refuse to accept Electoral votes from the Six Scandalous Swing States.  

Motivated (hopefully) by the raucous demands of the 74 million Patriots who voted for Trump, our Republican State and Federal politicians will be motivated – finally – to take a deep dive into the growing treasure trove of hard evidence of election-changing fraud. 

Now, in the final hours of this effort, this evidence of fraud will be sorely needed by U.S. Congresspersons to support their Objections to Electoral votes  on January 6. Mike Pence will need this information to justify his assertion of Amendment 12 powers. And, most importantly, the American public will need this information to determine whether the 12^th Amendment Plan is fully justified as a valid means for overturning the most comprehensively putrid and fraudulent election in American history. 

Patriots can hasten this process by mastering the evidence* themselves – the growing bounty of evidence of fraud – to the end of forcing it upon the legislators they contact – compelling the legislators to at least acknowledge the evidence for election-changing fraud and to cease their willful ignorance and denial. 

If Patriot Republican dreams come true, if VP Mike Pence is truly authorized by the 12^th Amendment to exert exclusive and plenary power over certification of slates of Electors (including the power to nullify fraudulent slates of Electors)  and if VP Mike Pence is prepared to save America despite his certain knowledge he will then be reviled to the ends of time by half the population – and if he indeed nullifies the invalid slates of Electors – the nation will explode into Civil War. 

When/if this transpires on January 6, the overwhelming cold Civil War already consuming us will likely  transmogrify into violence and riots orders of magnitude larger than anything brought to us heretofore by Black Lives Matter or Antifa. 

Sadly, this chilling scenario is all the more likely because current polling reveals 95% of Democrats believe Joe Biden was elected in a free and fair election. Consequently, if Republicans reclaim the election initially stolen from them –  on January 6 – and given that Democrats (mostly) comprise the only Party reliably responsible for political violence in America, the 95% of Democrats who are certain their election was legitimate will unleash hell’s own fury of fire and violence upon our nation. 

As predictably as the sun rising in the East. 

But what alternative do Americans have? It takes no great mind to understand that if the vast and consuming fraud of the 2020 election is allowed to stand, if America possesses no mechanism by which to thwart this fraud’s rectification, our electoral process, and our country, are doomed and unsalvageable. By this standard, honor demands we endure temporary conflagrations no matter how unendurable. 

Our country is worth it. 

Armstrong Economics Blog/Politics Re-Posted Dec 30, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

One reader pointed out that this would not be the first election that led to violence because of corrupt politicians counting votes in their favor. The corruption in politics was just in your face. In Athens, Tennessee, the Cantrell-Mansfield government was not only rigging their election to stay in power, but they were also involved in bootlegging, gambling, and protection scheme shaking down local businesses and citizens along with tourists demanding big fines and fees. Because of the corruption, Athens stagnated and did not boom as other cities revived. When veterans returned home from the war and found corruption out of control, they began to confront Cantrell and Mansfield who tried to nullify the veterans’ votes and reform efforts.

The U.S. Department of Justice proved useless back then as well who supposedly investigated allegations of electoral fraud in 1940, 1942, and 1944, but never took any action. The issue was resolved by violence, which is always the case when the rule of law fails as we see once against today.  A sign marks the spot of the uprising where several hundred veterans, with some accounts claiming as many as 2,000, took up arms against the politicians who retreated to the jailhouse. They took up positions across the street and fired upon them. They finally surrendered and they appointed a new government by sheet force (see account). It was common back then as well that dead voters’ participated in elections as they always do.

Later that year during the state elections, there was fear of violence if the government played games with the vote. The check against corrupt elections was in the wind and they did not want dead people voting as was the common practice.