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Mike Johnson: “Only the state legislatures can choose those systems [for…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Full interview Speaker Mike Johnson on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan

Published | Video Starts at 08:25

… that we had all sorts of changes to election laws in the states and choosing electors. The mechanism by doing that under Article 2, Section 1, Clause 2, says that Only the state legislatures can choose those systems [for elections]. So when elections officials and secretaries of state and some state court, jud and whomever, the governors, when they changed their rules because of COVID they did it in an unconstitutional manner. (08:25–08:33)

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Asserts that state legislatures are the only bodies authorized to choose election systems.

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