Anonymous ID: 2fad60 Nov. 16, 2020, 5:07 a.m. No.11666933   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6948 >>6957

https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/release/hice-gsa-administrator-must-adhere-to-constitution-past-precedent-in-determining-president-elect/

https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Letter-to-GSA-re-Transition-final-11.13.20-1.pdf

GSA Administrator Must Adhere to Constitution, Past Precedent in Determining President-Elect

Dear Administrator Murphy:On November 9, 2020, Democratic House Memberssent you a letter that misrepresented the facts surrounding your responsibilities under the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 (Act).1Iwrite to correct the record. Under the Act, you, as administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), have the authority to provide government-funded transition assistance to the President-Elect and the Vice-President-Elect.2However, this assistance can only occur after there are “apparent successful candidates for the office of the President and Vice President, respectively, as ascertainedby the Administrator [you].”3There are enough state contests in question, such that there is not yet an apparent President or Vice-President-Elect.Precedent and legislative history present three situations where theremay bean un-apparent President-Elect: 1.The drafters of the Actanticipated three electoral situations where there would be an un-apparent President-Elect: (1) a tie, (2) a plurality winner, or (3) the presence of extensive voter fraud or intimidation.4The third being applicable to 2020since the Trump campaign has raised questions and filed legal challenges in several states; 2.The drafters concluded that “if there is any doubt in the Administrator’s mind” the Administrator does not have to release transition assistance.5Since states have not yet certified an electoral winner and some states are still tabulating legal ballots, there remainsdoubt as to the winner; and 3.Theprecedent set by the Clinton Administration in the contested 2000 election is that to ascertain an apparent President-Elect there would need to be a concession—which has not yet occurred in 2020—or no more legitimate continuing legal challenges—which has not yet occurred in 2020.6According to Congressional intent and past precedent set by President Clinton, as of today, there is no apparent President-Elect. A GSA spokesmanrecently stated that “the GSA Administrator ascertains the apparent successful candidate once a winner is clear based on the process laid out in the Constitution.”7Istrongly encourage you to do just that: follow the Constitutionand past precedent, not the media,when making your determinationof the President-Elect. This democracy relies on a rule of law and the law must be followed.

Anonymous ID: 2fad60 Nov. 16, 2020, 5:10 a.m. No.11666948   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>11666933

>Under the Act, you, as administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), have the authority to provide government-funded transition assistance to the President-Elect and the Vice-President-Elect.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_W._Murphy