Okay for you lazies out there, here's my best shot at the cliff notes.
What Maximus is saying which is different than what I hear from other sources is that when there are objections, if they are sustained by the Senate, but not the House for instance, then Pence has to break the tie which he can do by awarding the votes to one or the other or tossing out the votes for both. Other sources are saying the Electoral Count Act says state Governors have to decide. Maximus made ZERO mention of governors. Obviously the governors are corrupt as shit and will not vote to accept Trump electoral votes, but Pence would. So that is a pretty big difference.
More details on what he says, to the best of my ability (you're right this is tedious as shit):
He says that what Cruz is asking for couldn't happen within 10 days so it's really just him saying that they plan to object and possibly that they are stalling. There is precedent for objecting to EACH electoral vote, like 11 times for Arizona, for instance, and if so, they can possibly drag this out over a week with 2 hours for each vote. All that time they get to present fraud evidence.
Will Pelosi try to prevent debate in the House?
Once the objection starts in the House, he says that Pelosi will allow the debate even if she wants to ignore the Electoral Count Act which mandates she allow the debate. Because if she ignores it, it's already considered an unconstitutional act that needs reforming and it will empower Pence to toss the act aside and assume his greater 12 Amendment powers on counting the votes he chooses, so she won't risk that.
After the debate on each vote or state they can vote for or against the objections. In the House, he thinks they would be close, but they will not sustain the objection. If they do sustain in the Senate, then he says Pence would be the "tie" breaker. But he doesn't think it super likely any of these will be sustained in either house.
However Maximus recommends Pence sets aside the Act and decide whether he's going to accept any decision the house and senate make whether one or none of the houses sustains the objection. He doesn't see how any member of congress would have recourse against Pence. Even the Supreme Court doesn't have standing in joint session of Congress.
He says it's possible that with the Cruz 10 days and over a week of debate, they could reach Jan 20th and still be debating. Maximus goes into who might be ACTING President at that point. Whoever it is will not be able to do much because they are not allowed to move on until this is finished and the debate has to finish.
When the debate hours are finished, if nobody has 270 at that point it goes to voting by state (~28 GOP to 21 Dem) which would likely give Trump the presidency. However nobody will have 270 ONLY IF Pence decides to throw out enough of the dual electoral votes. Maximus recommends Pence take that role, but nobody knows if he will. Still, this is also different than other sources who say it HAS to go to vote by state if it reaches Jan 20th.
Okay for you lazies out there, here's my best shot at the cliff notes.
What Maximus is saying which is different than what I hear from other sources is that when there are objections, if they are sustained by the Senate, but not the House for instance, then Pence has to break the tie which he can do by awarding the votes to one or the other or tossing out the votes for both. Other sources are saying the Electoral Count Act says state Governors have to decide. Maximus made ZERO mention of governors. Obviously the governors are corrupt as shit and will not vote to accept Trump electoral votes, but Pence would. So that is a pretty big difference.
More details on what he says, to the best of my ability (you're right this is tedious as shit):
He says that what Cruz is asking for couldn't happen within 10 days so it's really just him saying that they plan to object and possibly that they are stalling. There is precedent for objecting to EACH electoral vote, like 11 times for Arizona, for instance, and if so, they can possibly drag this out over a week with 2 hours for each vote. All that time they get to present fraud evidence.
Will Pelosi try to prevent debate in the House? Once the objection starts in the House, he says that Pelosi will allow the debate even if she wants to ignore the Electoral Count Act which mandates she allow the debate. Because if she ignores it, it's already considered an unconstitutional act that needs reforming and it will empower Pence to toss the act aside and assume his greater 12 Amendment powers on counting the votes he chooses, so she won't risk that.
After the debate on each vote or state they can vote for or against the objections. In the House, he thinks they would be close, but they will not sustain the objection. If they do sustain in the Senate, then he says Pence would be the "tie" breaker. But he doesn't think it super likely any of these will be sustained in either house.
However Maximus recommends Pence sets aside the Act and decide whether he's going to accept any decision the house and senate make whether one or none of the houses sustains the objection. He doesn't see how any member of congress would have recourse against Pence. Even the Supreme Court doesn't have standing in joint session of Congress.
He says it's possible that with the Cruz 10 days and over a week of debate, they could reach Jan 20th and still be debating. Maximus goes into who might be ACTING President at that point. Whoever it is will not be able to do much because they are not allowed to move on until this is finished and the debate has to finish.
When the debate hours are finished, if nobody has 270 at that point it goes to voting by state (~28 GOP to 21 Dem) which would likely give Trump the presidency. However nobody will have 270 ONLY IF Pence decides to throw out enough of the dual electoral votes. Maximus recommends Pence take that role, but nobody knows if he will. Still, this is also different than other sources who say it HAS to go to vote by state if it reaches Jan 20th.