Pence Asks Judge to Reject GOP Congressman's Elector Lawsuit (BREAKING)

Newsmax ^ | 31 Dec 20 (6:22 PM) | Short URL Email

[hapnHal]

Vice President Mike Pence asked a federal judge in Texas to deny a Republican congressman’s emergency request for a court order that would essentially allow the vice president to reverse Donald Trump’s election loss during a joint session of Congress Wednesday.

Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas should have sued the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives if he disagrees with the established way that Electoral College votes are counted, Justice Department attorneys representing Pence said in a filing Thursday.“The vice president -- the only defendant in this case -- is ironically the very person whose power they seek to promote,” the government said.

“The Senate and the House, not the vice president, have legal interests that are sufficiently adverse to plaintiffs.”Gohmert argues Pence can hand Trump a second term by simply rejecting swing states’ slates of Democratic electors and instead choosing competing GOP electors when the Senate and House meet jointly to open and count certificates of electoral votes. Election experts have said such a finding would create a major conflict of interest.

The House asked for the judge’s permission to file its own brief, in which it argues Gohmert is trying to “upend” Congress’ longstanding role in counting the votes of the Electoral College and invalidate the Electoral Count Act, which has governed the process since 1887.“The House also has a compelling interest in ensuring that the public’s confidence in the processes for confirming the results of the 2020 presidential election is not undermined by this last-minute suit, which would authorize the vice president to ignore the will of the nation’s voters,” House attorneys said in the request.In another filing Thursday, Colorado elector Alan Kennedy argued Gohmert’s lawsuit is based on flawed legal arguments and debunked claims of election fraud.

[Reily]

I read somewhere that Dresden was bombed because the Red Army complained that the USAAF had done nothing to help their advance into Germany. So a target was picked and it was bombed.

[Eagle Forgotten]

within a few hrs of the election board agreeing that [Jovan Pulitzer] could run his test on the ballots, the ballots were hauled off in trucks to be shredded....

but you knew that didn't you...

No, I did not know that. There so many lawsuits and hearings and disputes swirling around that I would not be able to master all the details without devoting full time to the subject. It was my general impression that there was an ongoing dispute about whether he can test the ballots.

In post #56, Hostage writes: "Jovan reports that someone is possibly shredding the ballots before his team gets to them."

A charge that someone is "possibly" shredding ballots doesn't prove that ballots have actually been shredded.

Furthermore, if one could prove that ballots have been shredded before being tested, that would not prove that there was fraud. It would certainly be indirect evidence of fraud, to be considered and weighed against whatever non-fraud explanation was offered for the act, but that is different from the direct evidence of test results on ballots.

Do you have a citation – from some source with first-hand knowledge, not Jovan Pulitzer himself and not hearsay – to establish that any ballots have actually been shredded?