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"The Vice President of the United States has no authority to do what many Freepers are insisting Pence should have done on January 6th."

And you know that because????

He had "no authority" according to the Washington establishment. It would have been better to have tried and lost, than never to have tried at all. What did he have to lose? What was it going to cost him to test the system...push the envelope? A book deal? His standing with the GOP Elite? The bottom line is, that Pence was more worried about his political future than he was of anything else on January 6th. He chose to take the easy way out for himself.

Read the 12th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It's written there in plain language, regardless of whatever some hack with a political agenda says.

There is a very clear process laid out there:

1. The state electoral votes are signed and certified.
2. The certified votes are sealed and transmitted to "the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate" (this is the Vice President).
3. The President of the Senate, "in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives," opens all the certificates.
4. "The votes shall then be counted."
5. The person with the greatest number of electoral votes for President is the President-elect.

There's no leeway in here for the Vice President -- or anyone else -- to "reject" electoral votes, or "suspend" the counting of electoral votes, or "send back electoral votes for clarification," or any of the other nonsense I've seen proposed here on FR since then.