Thread by @TimAlberta

States administer elections in this country. States canvass. States certify. States appoint slates of electors to the EC.

Once those state results are certified, and EC votes cast, there is no federal role beyond Congress tallying them and the sitting VP announcing a winner.

This is very straightforward. Can members of Congress object to the count? Yes. But objections have historically been extremely rare and narrow in scope. They've also been ineffectual—because federal lawmakers wouldn't dare, with the stakes so high, usurp the will of the states.

This is what makes 2020 so special. The same folks who've screamed about federal overreach and #makeDClisten are now proposing Congress disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans and strip states of their electoral sovereignty.

It would be stunning if it weren't so predictable

I'm laying this out, plain as possible, because Fox News wrote a story about my tweets re: the meaning of "conservative." So let's be clear.

What Hawley, Cruz and dozens of House Rs are planning is not—by any definition—conservative.

It is—by any definition—radical and extreme.

Here's that link.

I stand by what I said. Anyone who participates in this cynical sham on Jan. 6—anyone so fearful of their base that they'd rather attempt a power grab than explain the precepts of federalism—must never again be labeled a "conservative."
foxnews.com/media/politico…