Vice President Pence CANCELS Planned January 6 Trip to Israel
Pence has cancelled his planned trip to Israel as the upcoming Electoral College fight looms
Vice President Pence has cancelled his planned January 6th trip to Israel, the US embassy in Jerusalem confirmed on Wednesday.
As National File reported earlier this month, Pence was originally scheduled to begin a tour of Israel, Bahrain, and Poland, on January 6th, with other countries potentially added to the list. The trip would begin almost immediately after he would count the Electoral College votes in the joint session of Congress, timing which an ally of Pence told Politico was “anything but coincidental.”
https://nationalfile.com/vice-president-pence-cancels-planned-january-6-trip-to-israel/
LEGAL FILING — Mike Pence refused to sign on to plan to overturn election…
Lawyers representing Louie Gohmert and a group of Arizona Republicans disclosed in a court filing Tuesday that Vice President Pence rejected their request to join their attempt to block electors.
Gohmert and 11 GOP “alternate” electors from Arizona filed suit against Pence on Monday in an attempt to argue that the vice president has sole authority to determine which presidential electors Congress will count when it certifies the results of the election. The suit essentially asks the court to grant Pence the authority on Jan. 6 to overrule the results in swing states such as Arizona and have Congress count only pro-Trump electors.
In new court filings made public Tuesday, the plaintiffs disclosed that they had reached out to Pence before filing their suit in an attempt to join forces but that their talks did not reach any kind of agreement.
“In the teleconference, Plaintiffs’ counsel made a meaningful attempt to resolve the underlying legal issues by agreement, including advising the Vice President’s counsel that Plaintiffs intended to seek immediate injunctive relief in the event the parties did not agree,” lawyers for Gohmert and the electors said in the filing. “Those discussions were not successful in reaching an agreement and this lawsuit was filed.”
The revelation was made in a filing in which Gohmert’s attorneys sought an expedited schedule for a ruling from U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle of the Eastern District of Texas, a Trump appointee.
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Iirc the joint session starts at 1:00. The young woman organizing the GA response says they have two hours to present their material. Might get done by midnight 🤓.
A rumor on twitter is that rats plan something to disrupt. It could be anything. Thank heaven Some of the representatives have an alternative plan.
I saw that, but no reason given.