By Philip Elliott November 4, 2024 3:28 PM EST This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. In the wake of the failed effort on Jan. 6, 2021, to force Congress to set aside the results of the presidential race, lawmakers stepped up and passed the bipartisan Electoral Count Reform Act, which spelled out the rules for how one presidency ends and another begins. That brought some needed clarity to the federal