...Louie Gohmert Sues Mike Pence...

[babylonsister]

Leading New Texas Rebellion, Louie Gohmert Sues Mike Pence Because VP Lacks Authority to Overturn Joe Biden’s Election Win
Jerry LambeDec 28th, 2020, 12:42 pm


A Texas hardliner is once again leading a post-election rebellion against the future Joe Biden presidency.

Led by Lone Star State Rep. Louie Gohmert, a coalition of outgoing President Donald Trump’s right-wing loyalists asked a federal judge on Sunday to gut a post-Reconstruction era law in order give Vice President Mike Pence the power to determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021.

Gohmert’s cohorts include ex-“Kraken” plaintiff Tyler Bowyer and the Arizona Republican Party’s chairwoman Kelli Ward, whose call for Trump to #CrossTheRubicon was widely interpreted as pining for the president to establish dictatorship just like Julius Caesar did.

Through a creative reading of the 12th Amendment, Gohmert’s brigade contends the Constitution empowers Pence to ignore a statute making his work ministerial and select “competing slates of Presidential Electors.” The lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, is based on outright falsehoods—there are no “competing electors”—and an absurd misreading of federal law that would let the VP unilaterally decide the outcome of his own election.

Trump and his acolytes have called for Pence to block Biden’s victory by rejecting the certificates of votes in states Trump lost. Gohmert and his cohorts take this theory a giant step further, asserting that the Electoral Count Act of 1887 (ECA) violates the Twelfth Amendment by not allowing the VP to count uncertified votes cast by Trump’s slate of “shadow electors.”

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https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/leading-new-texas-rebellion-louie-gohmert-sues-mike-pence-because-vp-lacks-authority-to-overturn-joe-bidens-election-win/

[lame54]

1. Suing him for future crimes

[TexasProgresive]

2. Screwy Louie makes us Texans so proud

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. it's hard to believe someone like him actually exists

[RKP5637]

8. And especially given this!!! What a crazy MF'er! One would think they might be

screened out along the way as a wacko. But then again, it's the GOP.

"Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. is an American attorney and former judge currently serving as the U.S. Representative from Texas's 1st congressional district since 2005. Gohmert is a member of the Republican Party and is part of the Tea Party movement." Wikipedia

[LiberalFighter]

13. Research should be done on cases he presided over.

[RKP5637]

14. Yeah, would probably reveal some very interesting crap of sorts. n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. .

[Fullduplexxx]

5. Trump will push for this

[RKP5637]

10. Yeah, he's going to overload his Twitter account screaming for this. n/t

[CatMor]

6. It seems all Republicans do is sue everyone ...

now they're even suing each other. I guess they're following in their leaders footsteps.

[Beartracks]

7. Wow, it's certainly not *democracy* that these crazy fuckers are trying to save. n/t

[RKP5637]

9. Nope, they want the US to be a tyrannical country with no hint of a democracy.

With a despotic president, and one who is mentally unstable. A constant WTF!

[Beartracks]

11. To them it seems that *democracy* is the thing holding America back from being great?

But then, I guess it matters how you define "great.". Silly me, I thought democracy itself was one of the things that defined American greatness.

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[RKP5637]

12. Yep, I guess we are just wrong in the eyes of the new GOP. n/t

[dlk]

15. The party of tort reform to counter frivolous lawsuits strikes again...