Hayes Brown: It came down to the wire but the Electoral Count Act of 1887 can't come back to haunt us in 2024.
Congress spent its last few days before the holidays as so many other Americans have: frantically. It was Thursday afternoon, just shy of a potential Christmas Eve shutdown, that the Senate passedThe $1.7 trillion shopping list was long, but tucked in among the must-have line items of the year was a set of long-needed. That’s the 1887 law whose vagaries were key to former President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election. That these reforms got done at all is a minor Christmas miracle.
And while they aren’t a panacea against the anti-democratic movement that Trump has championed, they are a start. What’s more, these minor changes would have been impossible to accomplish in just a few weeks when Republicans take over the House.clarifies some of the supposed “loopholes” that Trumpworld lawyers cited when pushing former Vice President Mike Pence to nullify Joe Biden’s win on Jan. 6, 2021.
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