Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Biden CRUSHES MAGA Traitors with this HISTORIC Act Today

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

Legal AF host, Michael Popok, reports on a new law just signed President Biden, eliminating all Electoral College counting loopholes that will prevent the next trump from trying to cling to power by pressuring or doing worse to the Vice President and using slates of fake electors.  Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the Meidas Media Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://pod.link/1510240831 Legal AF: https://pod.link/1580828595 The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://pod.link/1595408601 The Influence Continuum: https://pod.link/1603773245 Kremlin File: https://pod.link/1575837599 Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://pod.link/1530639447 The Weekend Show: https://pod.link/1612691018 The Tony Michaels Podcast: https://pod.link/1561049560 American Psyop: https://pod.link/1652143101 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So Michael Popok, legal AF with breaking news. I never thought I'd say breaking news about a change to a law that's been on the books since 1887, but we have a brand new electoral count reform act being passed by this Congress, along with President Joe Biden and a reform to the presidential transition improvement act. It was already on the books. Why is that important? Because it is the electoral count act of 1887 that John Eastman, Peter Navarro, Meadows, and others around Donald Trump and Donald Trump tried to use to exploit, to avoid the peaceful transfer of power and try to muck up the works and throw a monkey wrench into that peaceful transition by trying to exploit loopholes where in the Electoral Count Act of 1887, they did it in various ways because that act allowed just one member of the House, one member of the House to challenge another state's electoral vote. That's exactly what they did. They got one member of the House to stand up

and grind the transition to a complete halt. They also had some insecure provisions or provisions that were not clear with ambiguities about how the court process would play out if there was a challenge to the electoral vote. There was also some lack of clarity about slates of electors that would be sent in, who would have to sign them for each state, who could reject them. And then finally, there was ambiguities that were attempted to be exploited in the role of the vice president in

the process, which led to a tremendous pressure being placed on Mike Pence by John Eastman, by the Department of Justice, by Donald Trump leading to the now infamous cry of hang Mike Pence. Well, let's call it the hang Mike Pence amendment, which is now resulting from the new changes to the Electoral Count Act. How did we get to the Electoral Count Act? Well, that was a cleanup after another disastrous election. I'll be a not one that led to a riot and assault and almost the fall of our capital.

But one that was equally rife with fraud, backroom dealings, and an attempt by those in power to cling to power. So in 1876, 10 years or so before the electoral count act was passed, there was a now infamous campaign between Rutherford B. Hayes and Sam Tilden. And Rutherford B. Hayes and Sam Tilden came out of election day with Sam Tilden ahead in the electoral count and ahead in the popular vote and Ruth River Behaze. Ruth River Behaze behinded both. But there was a challenge with competing slates of electors.

This sounds familiar. They were being sent in from various states in the South, including Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina. So there was a deal that was brokered in that election in which the all of those 20 electoral votes were given to Rutherford Beheys to make him the president of the United States, although he hadn't really won those states. It was given to him in the Nagout back office, a back room negotiations in return for something, in return for federal troops being removed from the South where they had been policing and executing the restoration of the Union following the Civil War and under Lincoln. So when reconstruction was ended, that was the compromise.

The, uh, the president agreed once he was elected to end reconstruction in the South, take federal troops, mainly northern federal troops out of the South, and in return, he would be president. Well, that unsavory compromise, which led to a candidate who did not win the electoral vote and did not win the popular vote being one of our presidents, led 10 years later to the reform of 1887 in the Electoral Count Act. But apparently, they didn't clean up enough of the loose language and ambiguities. And those are those loopholes that John Eastman and Donald Trump try to exploit arguing that

the vice president did not have just a ceremonial role in the accounting of the electoral votes and the certifying of the election for one candidate or the other, but he could actually stop the vote counting, investigate votes from different states, decide disputes among competing slates of electors, and everything that, frankly, he was not empowered to at all, except with a very bizarre, strange, illegal interpretation of the original Electoral Count Act. They also took a page, the Maga Republicans and John Eastman, out of the 1876 election by creating these false slates of electors and sending them in to the National Archive for counting, and to the Congress for counting.

They were not signed by the governors of those states. They were not signed by the governors of those states. They were not signed by the secretary of states of those states. They were really just signed by these renegade rogue electors, states of electors handpicked by MAGA to again throw a monkey wrench into our peaceful transition of power process. Now with the new law that got passed, it was a bipartisan bill in the Senate that was sponsored by both Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer for the Democrats, sponsored by Joe Machen, sponsored by Susan Collins in Maine, getting a full group of senators in the Senate to support it. It then got passed by the Senate delivered to the president just several days ago where he signed it as part of the $1.75 trillion spending bill. What does Senate bill 4573 do now law? First of all, it declares once and for all that there shall only be a single slate of electors

per state, and that single slate has to be signed by the governor unless the state provides for the signing by another official, like the Secretary of State. So no governor, no Secretary of State official seal, no dice on a list of electors. So we won't have competing slates of electors or the attempted fraudulent slate of electors in the future. Secondly, it expanded or expedited judicial review. Any losing candidate can go directly to a three-judge panel at the trial level. Three judges will hear it at the trial level, and then there will be an immediate appeal directly to the Supreme Court by the

losing candidate. If there's other challenges by states and other citizens of the electoral count, that is a discretionary jurisdiction for the Supreme Court, they can choose to take up the case or not at their discretion. The new amendments to the Act, to the Electrical Account Act and the Presidential Transition Improvement Act, will declare, once and for all have declared, once and for all the device presidents roll, his merely ministerial and ceremonial. He cannot do anything. merely ministerial and ceremonial. He cannot do anything. He can't accept or reject or adjudicate disputes over the electoral vote.

He has no power other than ceremonial. And that's now established clearly in the amendment. We also have the improvements to the Presidential Transition Act so that whereas Donald Trump clung to power to the final days and refused to cooperate with the transition of power, meaning that all of the shadow cabinet of Joe Biden and all of the people that he had chosen for office couldn't get their hands on transition materials, couldn't get their hands on government resources and taxpayer resources. If you recall, they had to actually sue the head of certain departments who were responsible

for budgeting and doling out the money to the winning candidate. The new amendment makes it clear that either the person who loses conceits or if they don't concede within five days, the person that is has on paper, all the electoral votes to be the president is presumed to be the presidential candidate and has access to all of the funds, all of the materials immediately. And if there's more than one of those people who think they've won the election than both of them are treated as the presumed winner to get access so that we have a peaceful transfer of power without delay, as opposed to what we had here, which was, you know, Mark Meadows burning documents in his fireplace, not allowing the Biden administration, incoming Biden administration, to have access to any of the White House briefing materials or presidential briefing books to get going so that there was a gap of knowledge

in transition that could harm and did harm the United States and its interest around the world. That will now be eliminated by the new changes in the new law that Joe Biden just signed another legislative victory for the president of the United States. In his first two years in office, the list goes on and grows, but here is yet another bipartisan acts. The second one in two weeks, we already had the law that now establishes the federal recognition for gay marriage, which was also bipartisan, picking up 10 or 11 Republican Senate votes.

And now we have, again, a change to a 135-year-old law just a year or so after, or two years after, Jan 6, in record time, to make sure that the next Donald Trump or this Donald Trump doesn't attempt to exploit loopholes to cling to power in an unconstitutional or illegal fashion. This is Michael Popok, legal AF reporting about the amendments that have just been passed and signed by Joe Biden to the Electoral Count Act and the Presidential Transition Improvement Act. by Joe Biden to the Electoral Count Act and the Presidential Transition Improvement Act.