Republicans sue Mike Pence in 'desperate' last-ditch effort to overturn election

[IsItJustMe]

Source: The Week - Tim O'Donnell Mon, December 28, 2020, 11:32 AM CST

Several Republicans, including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), have resorted to suing Vice President Mike Pence as part of a "desperate" last-ditch effort to overturn the results of November's presidential election, The Hill reports. The goal of the lawsuit is to get a federal judge to rule that Pence has the exclusive authority to choose electors when he oversees the Electoral College vote certification on Jan. 6.
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Despite President-elect Joe Biden's victory in battleground states like Arizona and Georgia, Republican electors held their own votes earlier this month in a move to disrupt the official process as Trump and his allies continue to make unfounded claims of widespread voter frauThe chances of this lawsuit being successful appear to be negligible. University of California, Irvine, law professor Rick Hasen said flatly "this won't work," while Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis called it "insane." And even if the the plaintiffs do win, Pence — who has not recognized Biden's win, but has generally been quiet about election conspiracy theories — would still have to actually go through with picking pro-Trump electors, a task likely easier said than done. Read the full complaint here.d. The lawsuit urges Pence to recognize the Republican electoral votes rather than the actual Democratic votes.

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-sue-mike-pence-desperate-173200942.html
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Boy, these crazy mofo's just wont stop. As they use to say in the olden days, "There should be a law." How contorted and perverted can these people get in trying to make our legal system to get what they want. Apparently the ski is the limit.

[Arne]

1. Two ski may be the limit.

[sheshe2]

2. Just showing themselves as the traitors and fools that they are.

[Beartracks]

3. Republicans, who hate "participation ribbons," are now not satisfied with getting one, but rather...

... they want the person whose job is handing the first place trophy to the winner, to simply hand that trophy to Trump.

This wouldn't fly at a grade school track meet, so why should Republicans expect it to fly for the Presidential election?

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[bucolic_frolic]

4. Olivia Troye was just on "Dateline: White House"

and indicated she feared violence on Jan 6 surrounding the Electoral College and transition with all the pro-Trump groups in DC.

Sounds like the TaliBund will be on the march

[tanyev]

5. Smart move for Pence to schedule a trip out of the country immediately afterward.

But he'd better hope Donny doesn't fire him and demand the plane come home without him.

[Saboburns]

6. Suit literally says that something actually written in The Constitution is Unconstitutional

I mean...

[Blue Owl]

7. They better be careful or he'll tell Mother on them

[onenote]

8. Pence should invoke the Hubert Humphrey precedent and opt out of presiding over the count.

And let the President Pro Tempore handle it in his absence.

(In 1969, Humphrey, having lost the presidential election to Nixon, chose not to preside over the electoral college vote and, as provided in the Senate rules, the President Pro Tem acted as the presiding officer).

[TeamPooka]

9. That would be Chuck Grassley.