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Pence: Constitution ‘Constrains Me’ From Rejecting Electoral Votes
The Epoch Times ^ | January 6, 2021 | Zachary Stieber

Posted on 01/06/2021 1:37:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday said that he doesn’t believe he has the “unilateral authority” to decide between competing slates of electors.

“It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Pence said in a statement released just before a joint session of Congress began.

As president of the Senate, Pence is presiding over the session. The purpose of the session is to count electoral votes.

Under the Electoral College system, voters choose electors. Those electors then vote, almost always for the candidate that received the most ballots in their state. Congress meets in the January after an election to tally the votes.

Typically a rote affair, this session has taken on heightened significance after seven states sent two certificates to Washington, one for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and one for President Donald Trump. Biden won the states but Trump has said he was cheated.

Trump and some Republicans argue that Pence has the “exclusive authority” to reject electoral votes for Biden and choose the ones for Trump. A lawsuit asking a court to support that view was rejected by a district judge. An appeal was dismissed, though the plaintiffs earlier Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; amendmentxii; articleii; certificate; congress; constitution; countingthevotes; duelingelectors; dumpster; election2020; electionfraud; electoralcollege; noshitsherlock; pence; rubberstamp; states; trump; washingtondc
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1 posted on 01/06/2021 1:37:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Just as it constrained biden from rejecting Trump votes in 2016 and installing hillary.


2 posted on 01/06/2021 1:39:24 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

… nothing about his CONSTITUTIONAL duties ….


3 posted on 01/06/2021 1:39:26 PM PST by Ken522
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To: 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

PING!


4 posted on 01/06/2021 1:39:36 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This guy folded like a cheap suit when the whole gay pizza wedding thing happened.

This is no shock.

But the people are speaking in the capitol.

And loudly.


5 posted on 01/06/2021 1:39:39 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Oh what a shocker!


6 posted on 01/06/2021 1:39:53 PM PST by RC one (Lying, cheating, deceiving & manipulating are as natural to Democrats as swimming is to fish.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Raise your hand if you ever thought Pence would do the right thing.


7 posted on 01/06/2021 1:40:46 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

These people seek the perks and power of public office. But when it gets hot on the field they just punt and go hide.


8 posted on 01/06/2021 1:41:19 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He is right, of course.


9 posted on 01/06/2021 1:41:41 PM PST by deadrock (<img src="WIDTH420WIDTH420.jpeg" width="420">)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

sad. but no surprise for me.


10 posted on 01/06/2021 1:42:05 PM PST by dadfly
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11 posted on 01/06/2021 1:42:40 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I don’t see the part of the constitution requiring anyone to accept fraud.


12 posted on 01/06/2021 1:42:47 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Trump has more soul in his wink)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So Pence thinks the role to count the votes is purely ceremonial. Because the Constitution has in so many other places spent lots of language describing all kinds of other ceremonial situations, or, does he believe the founders wrote such an inspired document and decided to just throw in a meaningless ceremonial task in what is an amazingly short document?


13 posted on 01/06/2021 1:42:52 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Venezuela used to be a free country.

A socialist promised to give “free money” to some of the voters.

Now, they are eating cats in Venezuela.

It happened there.

It can happen here.


14 posted on 01/06/2021 1:43:34 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Well the Constitution sure didn’t constrain the communist operatives in the contested states from conducting blatantly illegal, unconstitutional election fraud, now did it?

Law and order doesn’t work when only one side is trying to play by the rules.

The country needs a cold reboot, with the OS wiped and restored from the original image (the Constitution).


16 posted on 01/06/2021 1:44:04 PM PST by Zeddicus
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“the plaintiffs earlier Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene.’

They’ll fix it, right?


17 posted on 01/06/2021 1:44:10 PM PST by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Pence is a EUNUCH. First sign of conflict, he turned tail and ran. I spit on him.


18 posted on 01/06/2021 1:44:11 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He is correct in a sense, he could easily hear the objections, then decide there is too much Controversy to be decided by the Chair, and Send it to the House to Vote.


19 posted on 01/06/2021 1:44:14 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Muh Consachooshun! Yeah, I’m pretty sure the rigged election threw the rules out the window.


20 posted on 01/06/2021 1:44:21 PM PST by cdcdawg (Turn off Fox!! You can do it! )
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