Posted on 12/25/2020 9:20:03 PM PST by Hostage
The lawsuit before the Supreme Court seeks to direct the Vice President to refuse to include the Electoral votes from five states until those state legislatures can certify their votes.
In one of the most potent lawsuits to reach the US Supreme Court, the Amistad Project has filed a lawsuit on a point of constitutional order that would force the President of the Senate – Vice President Mike Pence – to remand the Electoral College votes of five states to their respective legislatures for certification.
The Thomas More Society’s Amistad Project filed a lawsuit on December 22, 2020, claiming that a several federal and state laws, some enacted under the guise of COVID protection, had unconstitutionally and illegally delegated the authority of the various state legislatures to certify Electoral College votes to state executive branches.
The Amistad Project is arguing that the state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona – by virtue of this unconstitutional transfer of power, were prohibited from exercising their rightful power under the US Constitution to certify the presidential Electors’ votes cast on December 14, 2020, in their respective states.
Under Article II of the US Constitution, presidential Electors must be appointed by each state in the manner prescribed by the state’s legislature:
The lawsuit charges that Article II prohibits state legislatures from delegating their power to state executive branch officials in any capacity as there is no authority granted to delegate the power.
“There are textual and structural arguments for these state statutes being unconstitutional,” the lawsuit reads, adding that the offending state laws are an “unconstitutional delegation of the state legislative prerogatives of post-election certifications of Presidential votes and of Presidential electors.”
The lawsuit also contends that some of the state legislatures in question, many of which are adjourned until January 2021, are being deliberately prevented from meeting – for partisan political purposes – to perform their post-election certification duty per the US Constitution.
The Amistad Project cited governors in at least two states who refuse to call a special session – per state constitutional stricture – so that the legislatures can legally perform their constitutional mandates.
“The very body that is responsible for how these electors are selected, can’t even meet after the election, up through January. So that’s unconstitutional, in that it’s a delegation of authority to a governor of a legislative function. That is not allowed,” Phil Kline, director of the Amistad Project, told reporters.
The lawsuit names as defendants Vice President Mike Pence, both houses of Congress, and various executive branch and legislative officials from the five states named in the suit.
The relief the Amistad Project seeks from the US Supreme Court is for the High Court to declare sections of the federal and state laws that empower the several state executives with post-election certification authority as unconstitutional.
The lawsuit also seeks to prevent Vice President Mike Pence, who will be presiding over the counting the Electoral College votes, and Congress from including the votes from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin until their individual state legislatures are able to meet and – independent of their states’ executive branches – certify the votes.
A call from National File reporters to Vice President Pence’s chief of staff ended abruptly when the subject of the Vice President’s adherence to his constitutional duties was broached.
To date, his office has not issued a declarative statement as to whether he will execute his constitutional duty to protect the legitimacy of the Electoral College vote.
Do Conservatives understand......in this NWO of globalists, that have “no standing”, according to libs and renegade Roberts.
they will just print more.
My money will be on supremes postponing all such cases past Jan 20, 2021.
Phil Cline hasn’t filed in the wrong court.
Here’s the back chatter:
Pence is to play along with temporarily suspending the Elector count because he’s being sued for participating in an unconstitutional process of fraud.
Pence will stick his tongue in cheek and say “golly gee I can’t count those Electors because I am a defendant in a fraud case.”
The Democrats will go into clinical apoplexy. Republicans will demand they show there’s no fraud.
Democrat lawyers will storm the Supreme Court and demand that Pence count Biden’s fraudulent Electors.
The benefit is to gain time.
There is a concurrent full court press on state legislatures to have them rescind Biden Electors and bring his EC total to less than 270 thereby bringing the election under the 12th Amendment where Trump wins.
AZ and GA are already moving in that direction led by an outraged citizenry that is not going away. WI is also erupting with legislative chaos. AZ, GA, WI alone bring Biden to less than 270.
It’s going to be quite the show.
Notables in the background say it is brilliant because it allows Pence to look hurt and prone to injury giving him a chance to raise his hands palms up with a “what do I do?” look.
Bless their hearts...
Another stunt...
I’ll be dumping Dish TV shortly after the new year starts.
They chose to enable Trump haters in the urbanized areas of the country, instead of educating these meatheads on political economic realities. They enabled their simplistic childlike view of America.
Which is that a rural Americans are destroying urban Americas voting power because of the Electoral College, The Senate,The Reapportionment Act of 1929 etc.
The urban American actually has the ability to make America an organic agricultural second rate power with their anti rural voting patterns.
Since the late 1960’s these morons in government,corporations, and academia have implemented a half assed “Morgenthau Plan” on American producers in industry and agriculture. While making sure a variety of crybaby grievance groups get overpaid positions in both the public and private sector.
As we grind our way through 2020’s, people better figure out the difference between the essential and non essential.
I don’t remember Mike Pence ever giving an interview about what he plans to do after January 20, 2025. There is a lot of speculation based on what people think is Mike’s long range plans.
...I believe this is designed to allow Pence to refuse fraudulent Electors.
Yes, all hell will break loose but it will anyway...
if biden is sworn in more than all hell will break loose..hell hath no fury like 75 million patriots robbed.
taxation without fair representation, back to where we started in 1776..
Hell pulled into town some time ago.
Do or die for Pence.
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No “BOOM”? No “BOMBSHELL”?
The Vice-President can read into the record the electors votes he chooses. Democrats will go crazy but is the Vice-President who will read the votes into the record
What gives him that authority?
What gives the Supreme Court original jurisdiction in this case?
The fact he is VP and reads the votes into the record
That alone doesn't do it.
Sorry but is enough
Don’t know what the VP will do but on that day (Jan 6) of counting the electors’ votes the VP has major authority based upon past readings
Hooray, Amistad!
I was afraid the “conservative legal team was something like Lincoln Project clowns. Amistad is doing a great job!
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