Congress agrees it’s time to do something about the Electoral Count Act. In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, Trump lawyer John Eastman sent a memo …
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What if a law on the books derails the 2024 presidential election?
How the law came to be
The Electoral Count Act was drawn up in response to the bitterly contested election between incumbent President Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden in 1876. It was a tumultuous time in U.S. history, a period between the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction, when there were high levels of political polarization, rampant election fraud and political violence.
This is the Big Lie's lasting damage
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