Posted on 12/30/2020 5:06:48 PM PST by Beave Meister
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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Pence can just refuse to accept the electors in the seven contested states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin who have sent dueling slates of electors to D.C. Since they violated Article II, Section 1 of the US Constitution by not following their own state constitutions in conducting their elections, the electors' votes submitted should not be considered because they are illegal.
He doesn't have to even accept and count the alternative slate of electors for Trump sent in by the state legislatures. He only has to count the electors from the remaining states.
If the votes of all seven contested states are registered as zero, President Trump would have 232 votes, and Joe Biden would have 222. The 12th Amendment says, "The votes shall then be counted.... The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President."
In plain language, Donald Trump will be re-elected, since he has a majority of the actual electoral votes that are legal. There will be no need to involve the House of Representatives to resolve a contingent election.
He might be the last line of defense, but he has nothing to do with the offensive options that follow.
“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”
Ludicrous on it’s face.
Should Walter Mondale have had the power to ensure 4 more years for Jimmy Carter in 1980...at Reagan’s expense?
Of course not.
If Pence can pick and choose slates of electors, can't any VP do the same, from now on? It will be SOP for the Dems to nominate electors in any state they lose, and for a Dem VP to recognize them.
I long for a solution to this crisis (that the Dems created by CHEATING), but this is a bad way to go. I think the swing states need to recognize there was fraud, the totals are not correct, and rescind certification.
The alternative is CWII.
JMO
If Pence can pick and choose slates of electors, can't any VP do the same, from now on? It will be SOP for the Dems to nominate electors in any state they lose, and for a Dem VP to recognize them.
I long for a solution to this crisis (that the Dems created by CHEATING), but this is a bad way to go. I think the swing states need to recognize there was fraud, the totals are not correct, and rescind certification.
The alternative is CWII.
JMO
And just how is this supposed war going to start, and who will the armies be?
No, they haven't. Not a single one of them.
I’ve been saying all along that he’s a squish RINO.
He is a good man, but incredibly naive about the evil that confronts him.
I knew it. I knew this guy could not be trusted to do the right thing. He’s a weakling.
I would not vote for him.
Ta da
Prove it.
How can the election results be up to pence if pence needs to ask a court to overturn it. Screw the court, do it anyway.
If he sits this one out, I’m sitting that one out.
Louis Gohmert must be a FReeper. He just told OANN that they had better have a lot of popcorn on January 6th, because it’s on.
If that is even true, and not a deep head fake state ruse. As in, BS. Yet another Lincoln Project effort to separate supporters into “camps”.
Inasmuch as the VP’s travel schedule is a matter of national security (kept separate from the President’s)
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