House Speaker Mike Johnson (R) on Sunday slammed CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan for trying to paint her as an “election denier.”
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Johnson — and a majority of the House Republican caucus at the time. — signed amicus easy support Texas vs. Pennsylvania A lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court. The lawsuit alleges that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin violated the Constitution by changing their election procedures through means other than state legislation (citing the COVID-19 pandemic as a justification). claims.
The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that Texas lacked standing to sue and dismissed the case.
But in an interview Sunday on CBS' “Face the Nation,” Brennan tried to use Johnson's support for the case to smear him as an “election denier.”
“You were a member of Congress who distributed the legal brief…by CBS editorial standards, you would be an election denier,” she told Johnson.
However, Johnson resisted, eventually getting Brennan to admit that he had not actually read the legal brief, but only consumed his opinion of it.
“That's nonsense. I'm not an election denier,” Johnson said. “Did you read the brief? Did you have a chance to read what we filed with the Supreme Court?”
“Well, I've read quite a bit of some criticism of it, but-” Brennan admitted.
“You have read the commentary on the brief, but you have not read what we have submitted to the court, have you?” the speaker followed up.
Unfortunately, Brennan refused to answer questions and instead asked Johnson to declare that Biden won the 2020 election, but in court filings he said that Biden was an “election denier.” '' before explaining why it was not.
“President Biden has been certified the winner of the election. He has taken the oath of office. He has been president for three years,” Johnson said. “The argument we made to the court was that it was our only recourse and was clearly unconstitutional in the 2020 election.
“This is Article 2, Section 1, and anyone can Google it and read it for themselves,” he explained. “The system of selecting electors to elect the President of the United States must be done by each state, and that system must be approved by the state legislatures. That is language outside the Constitution, plain language.”
“While there were constitutional violations in the lead-up to the 2020 election, and they were not necessarily malicious, in the aftermath of COVID-19, many states passed election laws in violation of their plain language. “We have changed it,” he continued. “That's just a fact. We submitted that allegation and those facts to the court, and it wasn't directly addressed because of the Texas case. But that's why we brought this issue to the table. It was the only recourse we had to present it head-on to the court.”
No word yet on whether CBS News will label all Democrats A person who objected to a Republican's presidential election As an “election denier.”
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