• MimicJar@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    The new House isn’t sworn in until January 3… By the time we get to January 6, the electors are supposed to have voted. December 11 is the deadline for appointing electors, December 25 the deadline for voting. Mike Johnson will still be in charge on both of those days.

    Since we’re not playing by the rules anymore, could the new house speaker (assuming Democratic majority) just extend/accept things on Jan 3rd?

    Since we’ll know that sooner they would just need to signal that they intend to accept late appointments and voting.

    I suppose that too would go to the Supreme Court, but it seems worth trying.