Congress is trying to prevent future coup attempts. Trump thinks it means he was right all along. (via MaddowBlog)
The law was passed in the aftermath of a brutally messy election controversy, and it was designed to establish a congressional process for certifying electoral votes. For generations, it was largely treated as a legal afterthought, if it was thought of at all.
All of that changed in dramatic fashion during the Trump era — or more specifically, as the Trump era came to a difficult end — when it became obvious that the antiquated law was in need of an overhaul to prevent future coup attempts. To that end, Democrats and Republicans struck a deal on the Presidential Election Reform Act, which appears poised to become law. As a recent NBC Newsexplained, it would “remove any doubt that the vice president’s role in counting Electoral College votes is simply ministerial. It would lift the threshold for members of Congress to force a vote on discounting presidential electors from just one member of the House and the Senate each to one-third of both chambers.
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