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And here is the final stand. The President asserts that the Vice President has authority (presumably unreviewable) to determine which electoral votes count. This is dangerously incorrect, and it's worth going into detail about why. A thread:


This is what @lessig and I have called the "VP Super Power Theory" in our course on disputed presidential elections @Harvard_Law. We do a deep dive into it on the Another Way to Elect a President podcast

What's the backstory of this radical theory of the VP's power? Poor drafting of the Twelfth Amendment, which says: "The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted."

Note the passive voice: the VP opens the certificates, but who does the counting? (Writing tip: avoid the passive voice, especially when drafting a constitutional provision that allocates critical powers among political actors.)


So, the VP Super Power Theorist argues, the VP is the only actor mentioned in the sentence so it *must* be the VP who does the counting (and thus can reject electors' votes). Wrong. Every single method of interpretation demonstrates otherwise. Let's go through them:
šŸ‘‡ Barr, Wray, and Haspel, just read the obituary for their careers.

The entire CIA, FBI, and AG have been outworked by a private attorney.


And let me add it is the job of the CIA and FBI to PREVENT this from occuring, not investigate after the fact. That mandate was changed after 9/11. Congress needs to ask how did this voter fraud occur and how was it able to operate unimpeded with no disruption from said agencies.

The FBI was mandated to create a Directorate of Intelligence whose main function is to identify emerging threats to the US: terrorism, foreign intelligence service operations, transnational criminal enterprises, and other things on a grand scale like election interference.

The new mandate is to disrupt, deter and dismantle. How did the FBI fail on such a massive scale? The FBI has analytical units in each field division whose sole job is to identify emerging threats in their area of responsibility.

POTUS even identified the threat for the FBI regarding mail in ballot fraud and potential foreign interference. The FBI has something they use to legally collect intelligence in their AOR to prove or disprove if certain activities are occurring.
Just finished hearings with the Enviro Minister. @amymacsouthbris asked some great questions on coal, emissions and climate action. Unfortunately, the new Minister either didn't have the questions or didn't want to answer.

Remember this square? Qld Environment Minister wouldn't indicate whether these 18 new coal mines will still be operating in 2050, and whether that's consistent with the governments’ target for net zero emissions by


In response to an Opposition Question, the Environment Minister says Qld will need to cut about 40M tonnes of carbon or 40% below 2018 levels to reach Labor's 2030 target of a 30% emissions reduction. But she stumbles when asked about the plan to get there...

Before the 2017 election Gov't promised a green paper on how to cut pollution for these targets, but it never happened. They promised it again this yr - now called a ā€œClimate Change Strategyā€. But...

When asked what funding has been allocated to develop the Climate Change Strategy and when it will be released, @meaghan_scanlon says repeatedly "the plan is a document... it is a document"... and that it will be developed internally.

No budget, no timeline.