The Electoral College certification is supposed to be the functional equivalent of a swearing in. It`s where the thing gets made official, but it`s not like any decisions are supposed to be made that day. But Senators Hawley and Cruz and others with their unlimited ambition, their big brains, and there`s suppose that expertise in the Constitution were dancing on the edge of overturning democracy itself.
Brian Schatz: “The Electoral College certification is supposed to be the functional equivalent of a swearing in. It`s where the thing…”
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Schatz criticizes Republican senators for their actions that threaten the democratic process during the Electoral College certification.
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