Just a reminder: Kamala Harris still hasn't resigned from the Senate.
Also an important tidbit about this hearing: The government lawyers that the legislature relies on in PA to tell them what they can and can't do, were telling the senators that it was not legal for them to take back their delegated constitutional power from election officials. Yet that's exactly the right they have.
They tried to make it seem like what Rudy was suggesting was something of an opinion interpretation of the constitution. Yet it clearly lays it out as plain as day. It's just common sense. If a person can delegate power, then the person delegating is the rightful possessor of that power.
To think otherwise is like saying if the president hires someone to enact policies of his, and they do something against his instructions, that their actions stand as if they are the president themselves, even if the president disagrees with their actions. Which is obviously ridiculous.
It's also no different than if someone could say that a Senator has the ability to have someone appear in their stead. Which again would be ridiculous, and clearly not the way things work at all. If a Senator isn't at a vote, they can't just have someone sit there and vote for them, they have to be physically present to vote at all.
So it's clear that while the legislature can delegate powers, they can't give those powers away, especially not to the point where they somehow no longer have those powers.
Just a reminder: Kamala Harris still hasn't resigned from the Senate.
Also an important tidbit about this hearing: The government lawyers that the legislature relies on in PA to tell them what they can and can't do, were telling the senators that it was not legal for them to take back their delegated constitutional power from election officials. Yet that's exactly the right they have.
They tried to make it seem like what Rudy was suggesting was something of an opinion interpretation of the constitution. Yet it clearly lays it out as plain as day. It's just common sense. If a person can delegate power, then the person delegating is the rightful possessor of that power.
To think otherwise is like saying if the president hires someone to enact policies of his, and they do something against his instructions, that their actions stand as if they are the president themselves, even if the president disagrees with their actions. Which is obviously ridiculous.
It's also no different than if someone could say that a Senator has the ability to have someone appear in their stead. Which again would be ridiculous, and clearly not the way things work at all. If a Senator isn't at a vote, they can't just have someone sit there and vote for them, they have to be physically present to vote at all.
So it's clear that while the legislature can delegate powers, they can't give those powers away, especially not to the point where they somehow no longer have those powers.