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The Safe Harbor date was huge in G W Bush being elected in 2000 when Gore contested the Florida results and asked for a recount. The Supreme Court ruled that the Florida recount was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. That was because Florida had no standard way of recounting the paper ballots. Was the punch tab counted as a vote if dented, partially punched (the famous hanging chad) or completely punched out? What might be a vote for Gore in one county might be a no vote in another. The Supreme Court voted 7-2 that the recount as undertaken was unconstitutional and therefore invalid. This could be rectified by having a meeting to determine a standard by which vote were counted and to get that information to every single person who had to hand count millions of votes with both a Republican and a Democrat representative, looking at each ballot. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 that it was too late in the process because of Safe Harbor to come up with a standard method and to hand count the millions of votes. The way I read the decision, it basically said that had they gotten together and came up with a procedure of a standard way to recount, it would be lawful. The Gore team argued so long in court by contesting the standard for recounting that they ran out of time because of Safe Harbor. Also, if I remember correctly, in dissent the liberal side of the Supreme Court said essentially, to heck with the law. This is so important that we can simply disregard Safe Harbor. š Law? What law? Anyway, thatās the only Safe Harbor story that I can think of at the moment.
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Done deal. There are actually four dates for a president to take office. 1. Election Day 2. Safe Harbor day or the date where a stateās electors must be certified. Basically, any court challenges or recount must be settled within the state by the Safe Harbor date. I think they list the Safe Harbor date as the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December. There are then about 6 weeks after the election to count the votes in any state and settle any issues. 3. Certification of the election on January 6th at a joint session of Congress. 4. Swearing in of the President.
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Itās kind of interesting that all of the money that was spent on him from outside sources (I think over a million dollars for basically a local election) was to get him to win the Speaker seat again. That much money and influence didnāt come from people because of a safe Republican seat Coveyās big push (also with a lot of money behind him) as far as voters were concerned was to keep Phelan from repeating as Speaker. Although Covey didnāt win, the people who wanted Phelan out were in effect able to keep him from being the Speaker. Not directly but all of the ruckus that was raised almost surely had an effect on the Speaker race and him dropping out.
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Two women arrested after Beaumont officer suffers head injury
tvc184 replied to thetragichippy's topic in Local Headlines
That person/woman is a lawyer? -
Two women arrested after Beaumont officer suffers head injury
tvc184 replied to thetragichippy's topic in Local Headlines
Internet comments can be so entertaining. Looking at Facebook, one guy claimed that the officer broke the law by jumping into the vehicle to apprehend the woman. 𤣠-
I donāt use Allstate, but Iām not really sure what he said or meant.
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Two women arrested after Beaumont officer suffers head injury
tvc184 replied to thetragichippy's topic in Local Headlines
The article says that the driver was arrested for Intoxication Assault. That is a proper charge but I think the DA may seek an indictment on Aggravated Assault/Serious Bodily Injury on Public Servant. That carries up to Life or 99 Years. -
Whatās that, three in a little over a week? It is not a record but geez. But they can happen anywhereā¦ā¦
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šš¼ š¤£ Itās not a terrorist eventā¦. itās improvised explosive devices. HUH? Apparently IEDs have nothing to do with terrorism. IED in reverse isā¦ā¦.
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According to KBMT, the deceased suspect graduated from Beaumont Central.
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Never mind. It finally loaded. Hopefully that nonsense will change.
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I canāt open the link but surely they didnāt actually rule that it wasnāt a terror attack. That sounds like partisan propaganda but thatās why I am asking.
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š¤£š¤£š¤£ Thatās how you bring down stats. Just declare a fact isnāt true.
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ā¦. and the second attack at Trump Tower in Vegas.
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I have heard all kinds of things. Supposedly a vet, possibly from Beaumont and so on.
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Sugar Bowl postponed 24 hours.
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At least 10 dead after a person with an Isis flag (reported by the FBI) drives into crowd in the French Quarter. Apparently that is a new tactic of using vehicles for mass attacks. They didnāt identify any religion or group affiliation (except Isis flag) but the perpetrator was identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar. He was terminated by the policeā¦.
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Gingrich was all of it. Clinton was smart enough to go along with it. That is smart politics.
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And the assault weapon ban. But, he did sign the last balanced budget as presented to him by the newly elected Republican House. Clinton was a realist and not so radically divided like now. He was on the left side of the aisle but not so far left as to not compromise with the GOP. I believe it was Clinton who signed the defensive of marriage act and also didnāt open the border.
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Thank goodness they slipped Clinton in between them.
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And yet another family violence murder in Beaumont.
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A great Christian. Not so great as a president. RIP [Hidden Content]
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TDS for four more yearsā¦.. I watched a Youtube reaction yesterday that popped up on my feed. I am not even sure who it showed but reacting to the Trump win a guy literally asked how people could vote for a guy that puts out mean messages. Here we go with mean tweets again! 𤣠It worked so well before. It might not occur to the people about to fall off of the left side of the flat Earth but Trump is on his last term. He canāt run again. Impeachments, fake accusations of misogyny and white supremacy, complaints about tweets, insurrection accusations, my body-my choice, choosing your pronouns, men beating up women in sports, nonsensical and corrupt prosecutions and so on donāt matter any more. Trump slapped all of those deranged attempts at gaslighting off and had an election win by gaining in every demographic. So letās lift a šŗ as a toast to our Democrat brothers and sisters and hope that they can get back to arguing about real issues like their opinions on the best ways of saving Social Security, defending this nation, slamming the border shut, ending sanctuary states and cities, opening up the oil fields until an actual solution can be found to not using as much fossil fuels, etc.
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Family violence apparently, the holiday seasonā¦.