Hoyer repeats that Dems will not seat Harris. Since the House is the ultimate judge of its own membership, a court will laugh at Harris. House Admin can order a new election or theoretically even seat McCready immediately, though Pelosi will not do the latter. See IN-8 1985.
https://twitter.com/JoeBrunoWSOC9/status/1078763120863178752
As a Dem, I want the to seat McCready.
As someone who believes in fair play I want them to seat Pittenger, or leave the seat vacant until 2020.
How is leaving the seat vacant until 2020 functionally different from calling a totally new election now (something many of us support, but you have argued against)?
If a new election is called, a new Congressman (who probably would be a Democrat, but not necessarily), would probably be seated sometime in 2019. If the seat is left vacant until after the 2020 elections (which would be the third best way to do things after seating McCready or Pittenger), the new incumbent would be seated with the other freshmen of the 2020 class.
Yes, obviously there is a time difference. What I meant was: you are OK with leaving the seat vacant until 2020 -- when the whole election process starts over -- but you are against starting over with a special election now. These positions seem inconsistent. Both courses of action start over with new primaries. Why do you support a new election in 2020 but NOT one in 2019?
I'm not okay with a new special election. I'd rather just leave the seat vacant until the next general election, if we aren't going to seat McCready/Pittenger.
Yes, that would require a new primary, but that primary would be the one that comes with the general election, not one North Carolina has create out of whole cloth.
This makes no sense at all. F-cking Atlas.
