Posted on 12/31/2020 5:25:05 PM PST by Ikemeister
What? Is Pence a Deep State agent? Is President Trump one of ‘em too? Not possible.
This is not to say that under separation of powers and court precedent state legislatures and the courts should not have already acted and made a lot of noise about it.
This court shouldn’t be involved here. Our Constitution is clear as to VP Pence’s duty on January 6th. We don’t need a federal judge to muck it up at this point.
Just most of the elected GOP.
I agree with the argument that the VP should not be able to reject whatever state submissions of electoral votes he disagrees with. That places too much power in one person.
I am hoping to see House and Senate members object to the questioned state’s votes. And those votes referred to the House and Senate for debate and vote.
I think that any state that obstructed observation should be overturned and made an example that you don’t conceal your election process. That more than sufficient votes can be shown to be fraudulent or at least in doubt, is extra motive to throw out those state’s votes.
But I would also be careful against setting a precedent that could be turned against us in the future. If precedent became that a state automatically got overturned for a non-transparent process. Then you would have democratic operatives blocking transparency in Republican states.
That may be the courts decision!
Man gets sued and moved to dismiss the lawsuit. Shocking!
Folks, it’s done. It’s Trump vs the entire world with no help from anyone. It’s been done since SCOTUS rejected that excellent Texas case. Some Senators or Reps going around saying they’re going to object or some shit isn’t going to change anything. It’s obviously just some last minute theater. Almost everything out of the GOP is theater.
Biden successfully stole the election. It’s done.
We need to start looking towards our next move. That next move isn’t “oh, we’ll just vote ourselves back into power,” because that’s done too. It’s gone with the wind.
Could be SCOTUS decision at some point but a federal judge in Texas should not have the power to tie Pence’s hands. At least that’s the way I see it.
I fully expect Trump to be inaugurated for 2nd term. It’s going to be clear to us how and why but the left is going to explode.
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This is the crux: “ The vice president — the only defendant in this case — is ironically the very person whose power they seek to promote,”
Courts adjudicate controversies between adverse parties. They don’t have jurisdiction to use a “friendly” lawsuit as a sham to issue an advisory opinion, which is exactly what Gohmert was asking the judge to do.
Pence has Standing?
“Pence is a good man”
A lot of people thought that about GWB.
Exactly!
I knew it, or thought I knew it sometime ago. I hoped my gut feeling was wrong.
“the whole world can’t be a deep state traitor. that’s just not possible.”
It is not the whole world. In fact it is a very small club. A lot less than 0.01% of the world’s population
“Pence was to Trump what GHWB was to Reagan. Deep state plant.”
Remember, GWHB was the former head of the CIA.
Never trump Adam Knitzinger’s wife works for Pence.
And more Constitutional ignorance on full display in the comments.
The Vice President has zero power or authority to challenge the validity of the Electors. He merely opens and presides over the counting of the votes in the presence of Congress. That’s it.
Anyone who says otherwise is blowing smoke at best.
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