Raskin: Congress Will Have To Look at New Legislation Because of Trump's Actions
The attack on the 2020 election may require changes to the US elections system, congressman adds
Congress is going to have to consider new legislation in light of Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to a prominent Democratic congressman on the committee studying that attempt.
“Obviously, we’re gonna need some legislative changes to the criminal code, to account for, now the possibility of presidents taking a headlong rush at seizing the presidency,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md), a member of the House select committee investigating the events surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection. “But there are federal statutes out there that will do the job. We have course have seditious conspiracy. We have conspiracy to interfere with the federal proceeding, which I think everybody can agree took place here.
“After, all the whole chant was ‘stop the steal.’ And they bum-rushed the Capitol. They assaulted federal officers, all in order to interfere with a federal proceeding. That everybody agrees that’s exactly what took place, it did happen by accident, it wasn’t spontaneous,” Raskin added. “Even if it were spontaneous, of course, there are people who agreed to go in together and do it. But this thing was planned. So, yeah, I think that we will have to look at some new federal statutory changes.”
The actions by Trump and his associates could require wholesale changes to the US elections system, Raskin told MSNBC host Chris Hayes in an on-camera appearance.
“And we have to look at the way that the electoral system itself is vulnerable to strategic bad faith actors like Donald Trump. The Electoral College is an accident waiting to happen and we have to deal with that at some point in American history. Why not now?” Raskin asked rhetorically.
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