“And all Pence had to do was not knowingly certify fraudulent electors.”
That’s a myth.
Report: Vice President Mike Pence Does ‘Not Believe’ He Has ‘Power to Block Congressional Certification’
Breitbart
HANNAH BLEAU
5 Jan 2021
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/05/report-vice-president-mike-pence-does-not-believe-he-has-power-to-block-congressional-certification/
“Some have speculated that the vice president could simply say, ‘I’m not going to accept these electors,’ that he has the authority to do that under the Constitution,” Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow said this week, adding “I actually don’t think that’s what the Constitution has in mind.”
“If that were the case, any vice president could refuse any election,” Sekulow said. “It’s more of ministerial procedural function.”
It is unlawful to certify fraudulent electors.
He also had the option to kick it back to the states.
He sat on his hands and did nothing then stabbed everyone in the back.
Congrats, “trust sessions, trust bar, trust pence” complete.
Sekulow is a moron. Pennsylvania sent a letter and begged Pence to not certify thier electors for 10 days, not a refusal, but to put it on hold. That is not unreasonable, and he could have done the same thing with the other states in question because the govenors in bkue states refused to reconvene them. Certification would have been on the 16th and nothing violated. Pence and all the others who certified the electors committed treason whether they like it or not.
Wrong-o.
That issue has not been settled;
and given that the fate of our Constitutional Republic was/is at stake, it should have been tested to the fullest. Pence’s ‘thoughts’ on the matter/cowardice have doomed this nation.
WRONG! He could resign IMMEDIATELY!
The power to accept or reject electors lies with Congress in joint session, over which the Vice President is merely the presiding officer.
But the presiding officer has considerable power, in fact the ultimate power, when the Houses of Congress are divided on a question. For any objection made against the presiding officer’s decisions must be sustained by majorities in both Houses of Congress in order for the presiding officer’s ruling to be overturned.
So, while the Vice President alone has no real power, the Vice President backed by either 50 Senators or 218 Representatives can make a final determination as to the status of electors. Whereas without the Vice President, you need both 51 Senators AND 218 Representatives to make that determination.
I mean, how many ministerial procedural functions have been utterly politicized over the years, especially the last four years. This is a terrible excuse.
And a hypocritical one. At 1pm Pence, sensing the mood in the room of kleptocrats, decided he did “not believe he has the power” to exercise his Constitutional authority in a certain way. But at 2pm, when his voters showed up to tell him a piece of their mind, he suddenly found that the Vice President and Acting Secretary of Defense had Constitutional authority to call out the military.