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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

And just who held a gun to Pence’s head and forced to certify those electors he knew were false?

I’m sick of you people who claim Pence was just doing his job. You are anti-Trumpers like Pence.


58 posted on 03/03/2021 1:03:20 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
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To: Responsibility2nd
"And just who held a gun to Pence’s head and forced to certify those electors he knew were false?"

The Vice President doesn't certify electors. He doesn't certify anything. He literally has one job: open the certificates containing the votes of the electors.

"The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted." - Article II Sec 1

Pence couldn't choose the electors; that's up to the states. Pence couldn't choose whether or not some electoral college votes were "valid". There's no such thing. The electors cast a vote and those votes are the only ones that matter. Every single person in American can vote one way, but the electoral college determines who is President of the United States. If you don't like that, then join in with all the liberals who wanted to abolish the Electoral College 20 years ago after Bush v Gore.

"I’m sick of you people who claim Pence was just doing his job."

I'm not claiming anything. I'm quoting the US Constitution. Your problem is not with me, it's with the US Constitution.

"You are anti-Trumpers like Pence."

I fully support President Trump and I absolutely wanted (and still want) him to have another 4 year term as President of the United States. But not to the point of engaging in anarchy. The US Constitution says what it means and means what it says. If we're going to just abandon it when the result goes a way we don't like, we're no better than Somalia. No thanks.

I'm a strict constitutionalist. You ought to be too.

71 posted on 03/03/2021 1:13:17 PM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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