Letters: Sen. Kennedy should be held accountable for his actions
The News-Star (Monroe) 1/29/2021 Monroe News-Star
Congress is constitutionally empowered to count the electoral votes as certified by the states, but not second-guess much less overturn those votes. Being a well-educated lawyer, Louisiana’s Senator Kennedy knows that. Nevertheless, and borrowing from his own metaphor, that didn’t stop him from “taking a Great Dane-sized whiz down the leg” of the U.S. Constitution.
That’s in effect what he did when he voted to challenge Biden’s electoral victory. As an honor graduate from a prestigious law school, Kennedy knew better. He knew, like 94 other senators including Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that an attempt to kill rather than count Biden’s electoral votes would be a violation of his oath of office. Nevertheless, Kennedy kicked up his hind leg and, along with a few other stray dogs from the Senate, defiled the Constitution