Congress passed a bill that includes the revision of the Electoral Count Act

[Hardkill]

Both chamber of Congress just passed a $1.7 trillion omnibus bill that includes the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022. Biden will of course sign this into law ASAP.

The main provisions of this act include:

- Identifies each state's governor as responsible for submitting certificates of ascertainment. Unless otherwise noticed by state laws or constitutions.

- Provides for expedited review, including a three-judge panel with a direct appeal to the Supreme Court, of certain claims related to a state’s certificate       identifying its electors.

- Requires Congress to defer to slates of electors submitted by a state’s executive pursuant to the judgments of state or federal courts.

- Clarifies that the vice president cannot solely determine, accept, reject, or otherwise adjudicate disputes over electors.

- Raises objection threshold from one member of each chamber to 20% of each chamber.

- Prohibits state legislatures from declaring a "failed election." They can instead move their election only by “extraordinary and catastrophic.”

 

There were only about 38 states that were a part of the United States by in 1887 and times were obviously very, very different back then compare to today. Not to mention, Trump tried to get Congress to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Therefore, this new law basically modernizes the outdated 1887 Electoral Count Act in order to further ensure that Trump or someone else like him will never be able to steal a presidential election in the future. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Count_Act

*See very bottom of that wiki article to read up on Clarifications and revisions made to the ECA of 1887.

Edited December 23, 2022 by Hardkill

[Bojan V]

Why are so many different things included in one bill?

[Hardkill]

20 hours ago, Bojan V said:

Why are so many different things included in one bill?

It’s an omnibus bill containing more than one bills with many different kinds of provisions in it.

This is the definition of an omnibus bill according to wikipedia:

“An omnibus spending bill is a type of bill in the United States that packages many of the smaller ordinary appropriations bills into one larger single bill that can be passed with only one vote in each house.”

Edited December 25, 2022 by Hardkill