Senator Doug Mastriano is attempting today to get enough support to pass a resolution that would enable Pennsylvania to exercise their constitutional authority to seat the electors themselves and decide which electors to send to DC to vote for president. But enough of his colleagues need to support it in order for it to pass.
CALL THEM AND EMAIL!!! (PREFERABLY CALL). LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. DEMAND THEY DO THIS. IF THEY DON'T, DEMAND TO KNOW WHY.
IF THEIR VOICEMAIL IS FULL, EMAIL THEM, AND THEN CALL BACK LATER.
PA senate:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/contact.cfm?body=S
PA House of Representatives:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/member_information/contact.cfm?body=H
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Doug Mastriano was on War Room this morning in case you missed it. The PA senate leadership was dragging their feet and Doug said we needed to contact the legislature:
https://youtu.be/hXQ4kDgjDiU?t=5786 (timestamp 1:36:20)
And remember: Even if the resolution is introduced and passes, enough republicans in both houses are going to have to flip to supporting Trump electors, not Biden. Remember how weak-kneed they are!
If you live outside Pennsylvania, you can still contact the Senate and House leadership:
Senate Pro Tem (republican): Jake Corman / (717) 787-1377 / (814) 355-0477 /
Senate Majority Leader (republican): Kim L. Ward / (717) 787-6063 / (724) 600-7002 /
Speaker of the House of Reps (republican): Bryan Cutler / (717) 284-1965 / (717) 783-6424 /
Majority leader of House of Reps (republican): Kerry A. Benninghoff / +1 (814) 355-1300 / (717) 783-1918 /
Right, and that's what Senator Mastriano's resolution does. It is necessary.
No, but the state legislature can. That's what you're missing. The state legislature made the current rules in PA. In order for them to do something else, they have to amend their own rules, and that's what this resolution does.
There's parts in that resolution which don't do this, and are contrary to it, such as the very important #6.
What is missing in that resolution and paradym, is the basic premise and understanding, that by (taking the action of) the State Legislature action of the very act of passing it's own Slate of Electors, this (will) supercede's all previous actions by themselves (this legislature); themselves (past legislatures); or anyone else in any branch or layer of government.
By filling in all those other things into this, it gives opponents (and judges) dozens of legal angles to attack and tie up the Electors. And statements like #6 give any spinelss judge/court a legal out, by saying let congess deal with it.
And these things are terrible, never give them easy attacks or spineless ways out, especially when trying to muster a quarum of courage within a legislative body.
Take the high ground and hold it!
Ignoring the rest of your comment, where are you reading from? Here's the resolution I see:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=S&SPick=20190&cosponId=32629&mobile_choice=suppress
I'll compare versions to the one I have.
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=H&SPick=20190&cosponId=32628&mobile_choice=suppress
Ahh The One I was referencing was from 12:50 pm about 7 hrs earlier than the version you linked!
What do you know, some signals might be getting through the noise!! :) *HUGS *HUGS *HUGS
Yes, they did update it I heard. 🙂
To be clear, you are correct that the current state legislature is not beholden to the previous state legislature, in terms of their authority under Article two clause 1 section 2. I actually agree with you that no previous law enacted by previous legislatures can ever supersede that. But the previous rules, having been decided upon by the state legislature, are nevertheless valid at present. But they can absolutely be overridden if the present legislature so chooses. That's my interpretation of the situation. They would obviously need a majority of both senators and reps to go along.
By the way, now that you know they have an improved resolution, you might consider editing some of your previous comments.
As a sidenote, one thing that confuses me about the new resolution is this, in the last section:
Why is that even in there? Congress has no authority (I would think) to not recognize electors that are lawfully selected by the PA legislature under article 2 clause 1 section 2.