Vice President Pence seeks dismissal of lawsuit that aimed to expand his power to overturn..election

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

Vice President Pence late Thursday asked for a lawsuit that aimed to expand his power to use a congressional ceremony to overturn the presidential election be dismissed, arguing that he was not the right person to sue over the issue. The filing will come as a disappointment to supporters of President Trump, who hoped that Pence would choose to set aside some of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college votes when Congress meets next week to certify the November election.

The filing came in response to a lawsuit from Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) and a number of Republicans in Arizona, who argued that an 1887 law that governs how Congress certifies presidential elections is unconstitutional. The suit argues that the Constitution gives the vice president, in his role as president of Senate, sole discretion to determine whether electors put forward by the states are valid.

It asks a federal judge to take the extraordinary step of telling Pence that he has the right, on his own, to decide that the electoral college votes cast earlier this month for Biden are invalid and to instead recognize self-appointed Trump electors who gathered in several state capitals to challenge the results.

While experts agree that the law is vague and confusing, it has never before been challenged and instead has been accepted by officials in both parties for more than 130 years as establishing a process in which the voters, ultimately, choose the president. This year, 81 million voters supported Biden, earning him 306 electoral college votes, to Trump's 232.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sasse-letter-electoral-college-ploy/2020/12/31/44da8dba-4b65-11eb-a9d9-1e3ec4a928b9_story.html

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This is all Putin-style shit.

Full headline: Vice President Pence seeks dismissal of lawsuit that aimed to expand his power to overturn the presidential election

[Budi]

1. Gohmert. 🙄 "Puppets for Putin!!"

As far as they're concerned the US Constitution has been already re-written

[redstateblues]

2. Russia also has a Constitution as do most Dictatorships

They treat them the way Trump treats ours

[BlueWavePsych]

3. Et tu, Pence

Pence Seeks Dismissal of Case to Expand His Power

“The filing will come as a disappointment to supporters of President Trump, who hoped that Pence would choose to set aside some of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college votes when Congress meets next week to certify the November election.”

https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/31/pence-seeks-dismissal-of-case-to-expand-his-power/

[onetexan]

4. another move by Passive Pence angling for 2024

[BlueWavePsych]

5. Sad, but true.

For the moment, I'll take the irritation it befalls on Drumpf

[onetexan]

7. likewise, i'm reveling in the needling Pence's action must be causing the Con LOL

[eTXwLA]

6. I was thinking this is Louie's genius plan for assuming the reigns of the cult post-Trump

[myohmy2]

8. I always knew...

...pence was a wimp...

...

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He has to wait for "Mother" to approve or not!