On Monday, January 6, 2025, Congress will meet to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, the final formality in sealing Donald Trump’s victory and the last hurdle before Inauguration on January 20, which is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s last political act will be to preside over Trump’s certification, her powers limited to a ceremonial role by a reform that was passed in 2022 to “protect democracy.”
Oh, the irony. Had Harris won the election, January 6 would have been observed as a solemn anniversary of the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” as President Joe Biden once erroneously called it.
Democrats would have used the certification of the Electoral College
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