At a Senate election hearing On December 16, Republican Senator Rand Paul said the court’s rejection of the election fraud suit was not a matter of case per se.
Paul said the court dismissed the Trump campaign lawsuit and other election-related lawsuits primarily on procedural grounds. “The court has never considered the facts themselves. The courts don’t like elections. They have an excuse to stay out of it.”
Ken Starr, a former prosecutor and lawyer, told Paul that the vast majority of the 60 voter-fraud lawsuits had been dismissed by judges on procedural grounds rather than on the merits.
Starr also pointed to the situation in Pennsylvania, where election officials acted unconstitutionally before Election Day on November 3.
In response to the Pennsylvania issue, Paul said: “The legal issues [in Pennsylvania] are easy to rule on, even as a doctor [outside the legal profession] I know that the secretary of state cannot make laws.”
“I think we still have a lot to do.” Paul continued, “There was electoral fraud. In many ways, there are many forms of theft. The only way to solve the problem is to strengthen the rule of law in the future.”
Mr. Paul’s comments at the hearing drew particular attention. He is also open to joining several other congressmen in a joint session of Congress on January 6th to challenge them to overturn the results of some state elections.
Representative Mo Brooks, a Republican, has also said publicly on several occasions that he will challenge the electoral College results in several key swing states.
Also appearing at the hearing was Chris Krebs, the recently fired director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), who repeated that “this was a secure election.” Mr. Krebs was fired after CISA issued a statement on Nov. 12 saying that the “November 3 election was the safest election in The history of the United States.”
Paul also responded to Krebs at the hearing: “When you say this election is the safest election ever, are you talking about foreign interference? If you think that no dead people voted and no one broke the rules, then you are wrong when you say ‘safest election’. I don’t think you’ve reviewed the issues that we’ve raised here.”
One of the agencies that issued the declaration was CISA’s Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Council (SCC). And Dominion And Smartmatic, companies suspected of rigging the election, are SCC members.
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