WASHINGTON – A judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by Vice President Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, targeting Vice President Mike Pence, and the authority to drop President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory, in Vice President’s hands placed.
U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who is a Trump appointee, said Gohmert and a group of other Republicans on the lawsuit “have ‘no status’.
Gohmert “claims at most an institutional inquiry into the House of Representatives,” Kernodle wrote.
Gohmert and the Republican group filed the case against Pence this week, arguing that the vice president has the constitutional authority to decide in which states the Electoral College votes.
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Kernodle continues: ‘The other plaintiffs, the slate of the Republican presidential voters for the state of Arizona (the’ nominated voters’), claim an injury that the accused, the vice president of the United States, is not reasonably traceable. probably will not be corrected by the requested relief. ”
“Consequently, as set out below, the court has no jurisdiction over this case and the action must be dismissed,” the judge said.
Pence, in a 14-page submission by Justice Department attorneys Thursday night, claims the lawsuit should be filed against Congress.
“[T]These plaintiffs’ lawsuit is not a proper way to address the issues because plaintiffs have sued the wrong defendant, “reads the reply, continuing that Pence” ironically is the person whose power they want to advance. “
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Pence will oversee Congress when he officially counts the votes of the Electoral College on January 6, and the case argues that Pence has the constitutional authority to ignore votes for Biden in states where Republicans have tried to cast doubt. .
There is no evidence to support Trump’s allegations of widespread electoral fraud.
In December, states ratified their election college results, giving Biden 306 votes to President Donald Trump’s 232.
Contributing: Jeanine Santucci
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