Texas congressman Louie Gohmert has suggested that ‘violence in the streets’ may be the only remaining option to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president, after a federal judge rejected his lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence to force to reverse the election.
Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump nominee from Tyler, Gohmert’s hometown, ruled in the case late Friday and ruled that he and other plaintiffs – including the Arizona GOP president and the state’s defeated Republican voters – had no status.
Late Friday on Newsmax, Gohmert said he had asked for redress in court “so you don’t have to have riots and violence” on the street.
“The bottom line is that the court says, ‘We’re not going to touch on this, you have no solution,'” Gohmert said. “In fact, the decision would actually be that you should go to the streets and be as violent as antifa and BLM.”
This is not the first time Gohmert – a former state court judge who has just won his ninth term in Congress – has expressed admiration for using force to stop an election.
At a ‘Million MAGA March’ in November near the White House, he urged Trump supporters to consider ‘revolution’ like the Egyptian uprising seven years ago and the uprising of the American colonies against England.
‘However, they rose up all over Egypt, and because of the fact that the people rose up in the greatest numbers in history, everywhere, they turned the country around … If they could do it there , think of what we can do here, ”he told thousands of cheering fans.
Congress convenes Wednesday to confirm the results of the Electoral College. Biden defeated President Trump by a decisive margin of 306-232 and topped the list with 7 million votes nationwide.
By law, the vice president presides over the joint meeting, but in a completely ceremonial capacity.
Gohmert and his co-plaintiffs wanted the court to have Pence throw out Biden’s victories in a handful of states, destroying tens of millions of ballots and replacing the will of the electorate with their own desire to give Trump a second term.
Kernodle ruled that Gohmert’s lawsuit depended on a series of hypothetical allegations “completely too uncertain to substantiate.”
“Plaintiffs assume what the Vice President will do on January 6, what electoral votes the Vice President will count or reject from disputed countries, or whether a representative and a senator will object in terms of section 15 of the Election Act to every member of the House and Senate will vote on such objections, and how every State delegation in the House would possibly vote under the Twelfth Amendment, without a majority of the election vote, ‘the judge wrote in the 13-page ruling.
The judge also found that Gohmert, as a lone congressman, could not sue on the grounds of alleged damages to the House as a whole, even if he could prove such damages.
Gohmert promised to appeal to the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The lawsuit disputes the 1887 Election Act, which makes the vice president’s role in announcing the results solemn. Members of the House and Senate may object to the elections of any state, forcing a debate, but the vice-president has no word on this; he only announces the results.
Gohmert insisted in court that the law violates the 12th Amendment, which provides for separate votes for the Electoral College for President and Vice-President.
Lawyers casually rejected his argument that vice presidents have actual authority in the process, noting that generations of vice presidents have not noticed such a great power to elect the commander-in-chief.
Pence himself sided with Gohmert in court and asked Kernodle to drop the case. In a 14-page submission by the Department of Justice, it is argued that the lawsuit should be directed at Congress, not at Pence: ‘This is the role that the Senate and the House of Representatives prescribe in the Electoral Act against which plaintiffs object, and not any actions taken by Vice President Pence. ”
Four House members from Texas agreed to object to the Electoral College on Wednesday, citing unproven claims of fraud: Gohmert and representatives Brian Babin of Woodville, Lance Gooden of Terrell and Ronny Jackson of Lubbock.
GOP members of the House say that 140 or more of their colleagues will object to it, although with democracy in the majority they certainly have no chance of stopping Trump’s defeat.
Congress will be expected to debate the results and vote on them if at least one senator objects to them. Josh Hawley, senator in Missouri, plans to do so. Elected Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, who is sworn in Sunday, could also face Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Even in the Senate, such objections have been doomed with McConnell and the rest of the IDP leaders are against the maneuver.