Alabama AG declines whether Biden is duly elected president

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Thursday declined to say whether Joe Biden had been duly elected president, as he testified against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson during the fourth day of her Senate confirmation hearings.

Marshall, a Republican who challenged the results of the 2020 election and was called to testify as a GOP expert witness at Jackson's hearing, was asked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R. I.e. if Biden was elected and lawfully serving president of the United States of America. Marshall said he is the president of the country. When Whitehouse asked a second time, he gave the same answer.

Why do you answer that, omitting the language '' that is legitimate and lawfully serving? I am answering the question. Marshall replied that he is the president of the United States.

You don't have a view as to whether he is lawfully serving or duly elected? Marshall replied: "I'm telling you that he's president of the United States. Marshall, who became the 48th attorney general of Alabama in 2017, signed a brief in support of a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in December 2020 and asked the Supreme Court to throw out election results in key battleground states that had voted for Biden.

Marshall said that the unconstitutional actions and fraudulent votes in other states not only affect the citizens of those states, but also affect the citizens of all states, as well as the entire United States, referring to former President Donald Trump's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.

Marshall was the chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association on January 5, 2021, a national group representing the top law enforcement officers in their states, when its fundraising arm sent out robocalls urging people to march to the U.S. Capitol the next day.

The voice on the robocall recording said we will march to Capitol building and call for Congress to stop the steal at 1 p.m. The calls did not advocate violence or suggest that the building should be breached.

Marshall said he hadn't known about the robocalls after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and disrupted the Electoral College certification process.

Marshall said he did not know how the calls were funded when asked by Whitehouse on Thursday. We denounced lawlessness, not only because it was related to what took place on January 6 but also the lawlessness that continues to go on across our country with violent crime, he said.

Marshall said he opposes Jackson's confirmation to the court because he believes that a fundamental redesign is needed in our criminal justice system and that she would be so inclined to use her position on the court to this end.