Giuliani backs Missouri letter questioning election results

(AP) A panel of Missouri lawmakers has given approval to a resolution questioning the integrity of the presidential election. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a House committee on Monday voted 6-3 in favor of the resolution.

The vote followed hours of sometimes contentious public testimony, including from President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who attended on Zoom.

The resolution says Missouri lawmakers have “no faith” in election results from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, despite the fact that Trump and his allies have lost dozens of times in courts across the country and have no evidence of widespread fraud.

The nonbinding resolution would have no authority to force Congress or other states to act even if it’s passed by the full House, which appears unlikely.

This might be as far as the resolution goes.

The chairman of the House Rules Committee in a statement said the panel won’t take up the measure. That’s significant because bills must be approved by either the Rules or Fiscal Review committee before they can be debated by the full House.