Pence declined to back Gohmert-led effort to upend election, lawyers indicate

[JacksinPA]

Pence declined to back Gohmert-led effort to upend election, lawyers indicate

Rep. Louie Gohmert is pressing to throw out long-established procedures so that the president will win another term.

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Rep. Louie Gohmert is pressing to throw out long-established procedures so that the president will win another term.


Lawyers for Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Arizona’s 11 Republican electors revealed Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence declined to sign onto their plan to upend Congress’ certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

It’s the first indication that Pence is resisting some of the most extreme calls to reverse the presidential election results, thus relying on his role as the presiding officer on Jan. 6, when Congress meets to finalize Biden’s win.

Gohmert and the Arizona electors sued Pence this week to throw out the procedures that Congress has relied upon since 1889 to count electoral votes. Instead, he said, Pence has the unilateral authority to determine which electors should be voted upon by Congress — raising the prospect that Pence would simply override the choices made by voters in states like Arizona and Pennsylvania that Biden won, to introduce President Donald Trump’s electors instead.
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[CaughtInThe]

Trump is a mob boss.

 

[mrjurrs]

Pence declined to back Gohmert-led effort to upend election, lawyers indicate

Rep. Louie Gohmert is pressing to throw out long-established procedures so that the president will win another term.

www.politico.com

Rep. Louie Gohmert is pressing to throw out long-established procedures so that the president will win another term.


Lawyers for Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Arizona’s 11 Republican electors revealed Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence declined to sign onto their plan to upend Congress’ certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

It’s the first indication that Pence is resisting some of the most extreme calls to reverse the presidential election results, thus relying on his role as the presiding officer on Jan. 6, when Congress meets to finalize Biden’s win.

Gohmert and the Arizona electors sued Pence this week to throw out the procedures that Congress has relied upon since 1889 to count electoral votes. Instead, he said, Pence has the unilateral authority to determine which electors should be voted upon by Congress — raising the prospect that Pence would simply override the choices made by voters in states like Arizona and Pennsylvania that Biden won, to introduce President Donald Trump’s electors instead.
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I don't think it shows anything other than the DoJ can read the Constitution. I believe we should replace the word idiot in the dictionary with gohmert as in...'What a gohmert, or 'That is the most gohmertic thing I've ever heard'.

 

[JacksinPA]

I don't think it shows anything other than the DoJ can read the Constitution. I believe we should replace the word idiot in the dictionary with gohmert as in...'What a gohmert, or 'That is the most gohmertic thing I've ever heard'.

If they pulled this stunt, the whole issue would go to SCOTUS. I don't think Roberts would go along with changing our form of government over one man's ambitions.

 

[JacksinPA]

If they pulled this stunt, the whole issue would go to SCOTUS. I don't think Roberts would go along with changing our form of government over one man's ambitions.

Changing a country's form of government over one man's ambitions reminds me of Julius Caesar. His death & the resulting strife marked the end of democracy in Rome & the birth of the emperors beginning with Augustus.

 

[JacksinPA]

Trump is a mob boss.

Trump had plenty of contact with mob bosses because they basically controlled the construction trade unions in NYC.

 

[CaughtInThe]

Trump had plenty of contact with mob bosses because they basically controlled the construction trade unions in NYC.

And his support is (wink) Southern, Christian men.

 

[JacksinPA]

And his support is (wink) Southern, Christian men.

I'd like to see a count of the number of them who are wife beaters, closet homosexuals & drug abusers but go to church every Sunday. Hypocrites.

 

[BlueTex]

If they pulled this stunt, the whole issue would go to SCOTUS. I don't think Roberts would go along with changing our form of government over one man's ambitions.

There is always plan Z if this gets pushed too far..... The house could immediately vote to impeach both Trump and Pence... That puts it all on the line... The GOP senate then has it all in their hands...