It probably stings Cruz to know that his party’s leaders have such an issue with his actions that they reformed a law written in 1887 to prevent him from doing it again. Had this reform been in place when he stood to object to Arizona’s votes, his objection would have been gaveled out immediately.
6, raising the threshold of the required number of members who object to the counting of the vote to one-fifth of the members of each chamber - that’s up from the currently required one in each chamber. It also prevents the very stunt Cruz pulled on Jan. The bill advanced by the committee clarifies the vice president’s role in certifying Electoral College votes as ceremonial only. His vote last week was the logical extension of what he’s said for months. 6 was a terrorist attack, but a justified fight for truth. Since then, he’s done an about-face, spending a lot of time raising a lot of money from folks who do not believe Jan. 6, Ted Cruz distanced himself from what he described as a “terrorist attack on the Capitol.” He called the violence “despicable” and said he disagreed with former President Donald Trump’s language. Like most Republicans in the immediate days after Jan. He has been a central figure helping people get on that very bandwagon. It is perhaps more troubling that he was motivated to yell “stop” during Congress’s certifying of electoral votes not because of any real evidence, but because lots of people simply felt like voter fraud was happening somewhere. senator claims to believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that voter fraud is an overwhelmingly intractable problem. It is troubling that a Harvard- and Princeton-educated U.S. He stood to contest Arizona’s electoral votes, saying, “I urge you to pause and think, what does it say to the nearly half the country that believes this election was rigged if we vote not even to consider the claims of illegality and fraud in this election?” He said the reform “reduces the ability of Congress to respond to the very serious problem of voter fraud.”Ĭruz was one of the most vocal senators on the night of Jan. It’s bad policy and it’s bad for democracy,” Cruz said as he voted against it.
LAW OFFICE OF JESSICA CRUZ UPDATE
Of the 15 people on the Senate Rules Committee, which advanced legislation to update the act late last month, only one voted against doing so: Texas’s Ted Cruz. And, finally, we have some movement on reforming the Electoral Count Act - that pesky law all those folks wielding flagpoles and assaulting police officers were told allowed Vice President Mike Pence to reject the will of the people. Īs of Saturday, it has been 640 days since Jan. A version of this post was originally distributed in Votebeat’s weekly newsletter.
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