Trump had no real support in the Congress to contest the election at that point. The Democrats controlled the House, and McConnell controlled the Senate.
If Pence had done anything to disrupt or delay the vote counting, he and Trump both would have been immediately impeached by the House, and likely convicted in the Senate within days.
The House immediately impeached him anyway, even after Biden was officially declared the winner. The Senate just didn’t go along, saying the matter was moot AT THAT POINT.
RE: If Pence had done anything to disrupt or delay the vote counting, he and Trump both would have been immediately impeached by the House, and likely convicted in the Senate within days.
This is the MORAL QUESTION: If you knew that an election was fraudulent in several states, would you exercise your duty based on the authority given to you by the constitution despite a possible impeachment?
Or would you, for fear of being impeached, simply let the fraud go uninvestigated?
So, the worst case is a VP gets impeached and Biden wins anyway, but so what? Where’s the dishonor there if you are actually in the right?
Let history be the judge. But act according to your conscience.
Men like Sir Thomas More did at the cost of his life.