Pence is a simpering, ball-less, limp bag of nothingness.
He always DID -
It was SUCH an “illegal act” that they tried to pass a law banning it AFTER THE FACT!
He could have done it, but Biden STILL WOULD HAVE BEEN INSTALLED. It would have been all for naught.
Pence gave aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States. The Constitution has a word for that.
For all... mark levin’s take on things....
Specifically, Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the federal Constitution could not be more explicit. It states, in pertinent part: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress …”
- The state legislatures could have selected the slate of electors if they thought there was a problem with the election process
Levin on the v.p,
We’re not 100 percent sure what the Vice President’s role is. Look at the Constitution, does it tell us? No. Look at the 12th Amendment. Is it clear? It’s ambiguous.
Look at the Federal statute they all rely on from the 1880s. Is that clear? No, it’s convoluted, which is precisely why Republican and Democrat senators are now proposing a bill to clarify what the role of the Vice President is, when he oversees this process and they want it to be purely ministerial, where he has absolutely no ability to make any independent decisions.
So why are they doing that? Because it’s not clear if he did. I’ll give you a perfect example. What if we learn after the “election” that there was all kinds of bribery taking place, a bribery scheme in let’s say a state that turned out to affect the outcome of the election? Now, is the Vice President of the United States overseeing the process of the President of the Senate? Can he object? Can he send it back to the States?
- The constitution is not clear on duties of the v.p. It does say what the v.p does, but IT DOES NOT SAY what the v.p. could not do.
https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/life-liberty-levin-efforts-january-6-committee
Levin more directly - I can’t find the original bookmark, so this is close
It is not clear under the United States Constitution. It is not clear under the 12th Amendment what the responsibilities of the vice president of the United States are and how they are limited. So to not have an opposition, to not have a legal challenge right there in the committee, to not challenge these witnesses, this is a railroad job, pure and simple and it’s time the media get off its ass and pay attention and the legal analyst act like real lawyers. That’s it.
If it were illegal they wouldn't have needed to change the law making it illegal.
And it may never get repealed.
We'll see.
It would have been turned over to the House of Representatives...
“thirty pieces of silver? ha, chicken feed!”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/07/mike-pence-signs-seven-figure-deal-for-memoirs#:~:text=Pence‘s%20autobiography%2C%20currently%20untitled%2C%20is,%243m%20and%20%244m.
Pence, Mr. 1%
Pence has repeatedly maintained he lacked the constitutional authority to send the elections results back to the contested states for review and insisted he saw no evidence of voter fraud swaying the outcome of the 2020 election, a point Smith notes early in the indictment.
The former vice president’s own words prior to the events of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, however, seem to contradict his post-vice-presidency narrative.
See here:
Video footage from a public address less than one week prior to the electoral certification on Jan. 6, 2021 shows Pence expressing concerns about election irregularities in the contest and vows to hear the objections of his supporters during the certification process, seemingly suggesting he held a belief in his authority to do so.
“I know we all got doubts about the election. I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities,” he told supporters on Jan. 4. “I promise you this Wednesday. We’ll have our day in Congress. We’ll hear the objections. We’ll hear the evidence.”
Summary: first, Pence said, publicly, yea, I’ll look into the 2020 election and sure there do seem to be problems.
Then, he doesn’t do that at all.
bttt