4 Men & America with guest, Episode 18, Jan. 2025 Happy New Year

Happy New Year 2025
Don, Ken, Paul, Jeff, and special guest Zack discuss the process for the Jan. 3 Speaker vote, the Jan. 6 Certification, "The Brunson Case", Terrorism in New Orleans, the explosion in Las Vegas, Nev, at Trump Hotel, and Jimmy Carter's Presidency,

Links:
Heirs of the Republic (founder Jeff Utsch)
https://www.heirsoftherepublic.com/

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-constitution-and-the-federal-election-process

For presidential races, a federal law amended in 2022 (3 U.S. Code § 5) known as the “safe harbor provision” requires a state to settle these disputes and determine its electors six days before the Electoral College members meet in person. In 2024, that deadline is Dec. 11, since the college votes on Dec. 17, 2024.

Federal law requires states to deliver certified Electoral College results to the vice president, serving as president of the Senate, and other parties by the fourth Wednesday in December; in the year 2024 that date falls on Dec. 25.

Then, by federal statute 3 U.S.C. §12, 13, the vice president or the Archivist of the United States asks a “secretary of state or equivalent officer” of that state to send the certified election results to Congress, using direct mail or a messenger.

For members elected to House and Senate, they are seated at the first meeting of the 119th Congress on Jan. 3, 2025. On rare occasions, Congress has assumed powers under Article I, Section 5 to refuse to seat a newly elected member. But a Supreme Court decision in 1969, Powell v. McCormick, greatly limited that practice.

A joint session of Congress is required by the 12th Amendment to count the electoral votes and declare the winners of the presidential election. That joint session of Congress will be held on Jan. 6, 2025, at 1 p.m. If there are delays related to the count in Congress or a contingent election, those processes would need to be finished by noon on Jan. 20, 2025, for the next president and vice president to take their oaths of office. If that does not happen, the Speaker of the House would serve as president until Congress certifies a winner of the presidential election.

New Orleans terrorist attack and Las Vegas Nev. explosion at Trump hotel...
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/new-orleans-bourbon-street-terror-attack-01-02-25

https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-was-a-terrible-president-and-an-even-worse-former-president/