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.
then why does the constitution allow objections to those votes?
wtf is the point then if debate and objections are allowed?
what godam pontius pilate bullshiite on his part
What a disgusting mess we are in. The people are sooner or later going to get very creative.
Maybe P is above Soros for real
i am sorry but fedgov never
never
never says we have no power, we’re just rubber stamps for the states
they never say this crap
if they can only say yes, and never say no or object
we have no need for them to say yes
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.
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Finally a reasonable reply instead of hyperbole. Where in the constitution does he get this option from?
if you havent already
with your trusted few others
get organized
Do not use logic on this thread...
After today it wouldn’t surprise me if Pence resigned.
.... There are rumors that Pence just unfollowed Trump on twitter....
When it mattered most, Pence folded.
I have always been a Mike Pence supporter.
Until today !
What a pitiful excuse for a man !
“He should be arrested for treason and sent to a firing squad,” ..... wait, a particular lawyer suggested that a week ago!
Just as it constrained biden from rejecting Trump votes in 2016 and installing hillary.
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Pence wasn’t VP on January 6th, 2020, plus, it is a false equivalency, comparing the 2016 election to the fraudulent mess we had last November.
“Just as it constrained biden from rejecting Trump votes in 2016 and installing hillary.”
Look moron, Congress votes, the VP does not install.
You can’t even get the basics right in your troll.
Yep. Blame this one on our sick, sad Congress, both parties of which deserve to be deserted like a sinking ship.
Can’t do it.
Wouldn’t be prudent.
Bad for the uniparty...
And facilitating the murder of hundreds of thousands of babies “constrains” him from entering Heaven. So there’s that.
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