A protest is not an insurrection...and there was no intent to stop the proceeding...and it wouldn’t matter anyways. Each state had submitted their “ballots” and the VP’s role is simply reading them into the record.
“The Supreme Court’s conservatives appeared skeptical Tuesday of the way federal prosecutors have deployed a felony charge devised in the aftermath of the 20-year-old Enron financial scandal against about 350 rioters convicted or accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”
Do they every say The Supreme Court’s liberals?