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ALEC’s Pennsylvania Leaders Lobby to Overturn 2020 Election Results in Last-Minute Effort The Pennsylvania state chairs of the American Legislative Exchange Council are leading a GOP effort to overturn the state’s presidential election results when Congress convenes in January to certify the Electoral College’s election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Holds Virtual States and National Policy Summit After canceling its plans for an in-person meeting, ALEC opened its annual policy summit online yesterday to consider a wide variety of measures to limit governors’ power to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, stop a bailout for hard-hit states, and lock in a nine-member Supreme Court, provide trainings to help its overwhelmingly Republican members run better campaigns. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Board Member Reveals Kansas Partisan Gerrymandering Plan to Donors ALEC board member, Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle, pitches political donors on the need for a GOP supermajority to stack congressional districts for the next decade, while ALEC trains members on the art of gerrymandering. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC Circulates Sign-On Letter Urging “Swift Confirmation” of Trump’s SCOTUS Pick The American Legislatives Exchange Council is gathering signatures from its legislative members urging U.S. Senators to confirm Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States Amy Coney Barret “as soon as possible.” Read the rest of this item here. ALEC and GOP Push Corporate Immunity From COVID-19 Workplace Illnesses and Deaths ALEC joins with other business lobbyists and Senate Republicans to back sweeping immunity for corporations that negligently spread coronavirus to their workers or customers. Read the rest of this item here. ALEC 2020 Annual Meeting Attendees and Sponsors Revealed The American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) annual meeting continues this week online with workshops on rewriting the U.S. Constitution, reopening schools amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and school privatization. Read the rest of this item here.