On December 8, the Presidential Inaugural Committee, composed of members of both houses of Congress, failed to pass a resolution certifying Biden’s election. In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo, morning sunlight illuminates the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington.
On Tuesday (Dec. 8), the Joint Committee on Presidential Inaugurations (JCCIC), composed of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, refused to certify Biden as the winner of the 2020 election. The resolution failed to pass with all Republican members of the committee voting against it.
House Democrat Snyy Hoyer (D-Md.) noted that all three Republicans on the committee voted against the resolution, and the final resolution failed to pass 3-3.
The Joint Committee on Presidential Inaugurations is a special joint committee of the U.S. Congress that has been formed every four years since William McKinley’s inauguration in 1901 to administer the inauguration of the President and Vice President.
In addition to Hall, other members serving on the committee include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican Senator Roy Blunt, and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Blunt, the Republican senator who voted against the bill, said in a statement that the Presidential Inaugural Committee is not in a position to decide who will be inaugurated in the future ahead of the electoral process, and that it is not the department’s task to do so.
He said the committee’s mission is to provide a proper inauguration ceremony for the president ultimately elected, and “I am hopeful that the members of the JCCIC will continue to uphold the committee’s long tradition of bipartisanship and focus on the task at hand.”
On Tuesday, Kawakami’s team released an official statement saying that the election dispute apparently will continue beyond the consistent December 8 election ‘safe harbor deadline.’
The statement noted that “Justice Ginsburg recognized in Bush vs Gore that the ‘decisive date’ is January 6, when Congress counts and certifies the Electoral College votes. The only date fixed in the U.S. Constitution is the President’s inauguration at noon on January 20.”
Despite the media’s desperate attempts to declare the dispute over, Team Trump said, “we will continue to defend the integrity of the election until the legitimate votes are counted fairly and accurately.”
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