Empire State Today

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) doesn’t want Congressional hearings on the 2020 election, saying that the misinformation being spread is “beyond the pale.”

“Rather than accept the simple truth that Joe Biden will be the next president of the United States, there are actually sitting senators and Congress members who prefer to undermine our democracy by indulging President [Donald] Trump’s wild conspiracy theories,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. 

Schumer was quoted as saying that after an announcement “that next week [the chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs] will convene a hearing on, quote, election irregularities. When is this nonsense, detrimental to our democracy going to end?”

A lawsuit filed regarding alleged voting irregularities by the state of Texas against several states was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) is one of 106 House representatives that signed on to a brief supporting the rejected lawsuit.

“As members of the federal legislature, Amici seek to protect the constitutional role of state legislatures in establishing the manner by which Presidential Electors are appointed to ensure the Electoral College selects the candidate for President of the United States that was chosen by counting only lawful votes. Amici include 106 U.S. Representatives,” Pelican State News reports the brief says.

“Relevance of Amicus Brief to Motion for Leave to File a Bill of Complaint This brief amicus curiae presents the concern of amici as Members of Congress, shared by untold millions of their constituents, that the unconstitutional irregularities involved in the 2020 presidential election cast doubt upon its outcome and the integrity of the American system of elections. Amici respectfully aver that the broad scope and impact of the various irregularities in the Defendant states necessitate careful and timely review by this Court,” according to the filing.

Texas argued state legislators should have the right to determine which candidate gets electoral votes.