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You know what really prevents future coups, prosecuting that absolute fuck out of the people who previously tried. >

Nah, can't hold those accountable. That's too easy. >


George Conway explained nearly a year ago, “The Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 already make it entirely clear that the Vice President merely opens the envelopes. But sometimes we want to make laws even clearer so that even semiliterate psychopaths have a chance at understanding them.”

Correct. >

I like George. >

I like the line "But sometimes we want to make laws even clearer so that even semiliterate psychopaths have a chance at understanding them.” >

Call it the Anti-Trump law. >

Came here to say this. >

The bar is really so low >

The key elements of the new Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act include clarifying the ceremonial role of the Vice President in the electoral vote count, raising the threshold for objecting to a state's electors, designating state governors as responsible for submitting a single slate of electors to Congress, providing an expedited review process for certain claims related to a state's electors, and requiring "extraordinary and catastrophic" events for a state to move or cancel an election