After losing the popular vote, the Electoral College and 59 court cases to block the will of the electorate, it seems that President Trump can have no more options when it comes to the prospect of remaining in office on January 20th. But some of the president’s most ardent supporters see one last ray of hope: Vice President Mike Pence.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, filed a far-reaching case against Pence on Sunday, which by law will provide for the counting of the votes in Congress on January 6, when Joe Biden will be formally declared. the winner of the presidential election.
Gohmert, who is joined by a group of Republicans, is asking the court to give Pence the sole power to stop Trump’s defeat in major warring states, rather than simply overseeing the votes of the Electoral College.
‘Under the twelfth amendment, accused Pence alone has the sole authority and sole discretion to open and permit the voting for a given state, and where there are voters among the voters, or where there is objection to any slate. voters, to determine which voters’ votes, or not, will be counted, ”reads the lawsuit.
The case, which according to lawyers has almost no chance of delivering the outcome the plaintiffs are hoping for, will be heard by Judge Jeremy Kernodle, an appointment of Trump, in Texas.
Marc Elias, a Democratic lawyer specializing in elections, did not come up with words after reviewing Gohmert’s attempt to allow Pence to choose the winner of the 2020 election.
I usually ignore Gohmert, but I feel that some are nervous. Do not be. This lawsuit is nonsense.
I wish I could say it’s the dumbest thing Gohmert has ever done, but it’s not. The real scandal is that he is still a member of Congress. Https://t.co/tGfvn9mrli
– Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) 28 December 2020
Yet Gohmert and his fellow Republican litigants are not the only ones hoping for a Jan. 6 miracle. A small group of members of the Republican House also plans to contest the election results in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin – states that crowned Biden the winner.
Together with Gohmert, Representative Mo Brooks, R-Ala., Will try to overthrow the election results in a dramatic final stand on the floor of Congress before the final votes of the election.
“We have a better role under the Constitution than the Supreme Court has than any federal judge does than any judge of the state does,” Brooks told the New York Times. “What we say goes. This is the final verdict. ”
Conservative detective Rasmussen Reports went so far as to cite a quote often attributed to 20th-century Russian dictator Joseph Stalin when he endorsed the idea of making Pence decide to run for office. to keep.
Come January 6:
(Those who cast the ballots decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. – Stalin)
“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence will receive the sealed certificates containing the ballot papers of the presidential voters.
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– Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) 27 December 2020
“There is nothing that prevents Pence, under the (plenary and unacceptable) authority that entrusted him as president of the Senate, from refusing to open and count the certificates of the six disputed states,” Rasmussen continued.
How Pence will respond on Jan. 6 amid challenges by some Republican lawmakers against the outcome of the election college remains to be seen. There have long been rumors about the vice president that he has presidential aspirations, and the sight of him declaring Biden a winner is unlikely to sit well with Trump’s most ardent supporters. Yet a growing chorus of right-wing Trump is now growing to concede his election loss.
Pence has been relatively low over the past few days. Over the weekend, Pence, who heads the president’s coronavirus task force, violated the committee’s own travel guidelines when he went on a ski vacation in Vail, Colo. The journey continued despite the president refusing to provide a stimulus bill intended to help Americans suffering from the pandemic.
Hours after Pence planned to declare Biden the winner of the election, he must leave the country on a trip to Bahrain, Israel and Poland, reports NBC News.
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