Vice President Pence on Thursday asked a federal judge to reject a bid by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and other Republicans to broaden Pence’s powers in a manner that would effectively allow him to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral win.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this week, seeks to expand Pence’s role in an upcoming Jan. 6 meeting of Congress to count states’ electoral votes and finalize Biden’s victory over President Trump.
But in a Thursday brief to Texas-based U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, Pence said he was not a proper defendant to the suit.
“A suit to establish that the Vice President has discretion over the count, filed against the Vice President, is a walking legal contradiction,” a Department of Justice attorney representing Pence wrote in the filing.
Typically, the vice president’s role in presiding over the Jan. 6 meeting is a largely ceremonial one governed by an 1887 federal law known as the Electoral Count Act.
But the Republican lawsuit seeks to invalidate the law as an unconstitutional constraint on the vice president's authority to choose among competing claims of victory when state-level election results are disputed.
Except that it wouldn't allow Pence anything. As the response says, they're suing the wrong party. When I read Gomert's filing, it made no sense to me. Now I see that the Acting Assistant AG agrees with me.
You don't sue a person to empower them. You sue the body that currently has the power.
READ your CONSTITUTION rather then reposting this.
If true the rubicon bridge is burned.
Why? I'm not seeing point in this. Is the lawsuit for the power or trying to remove that power?
He’s not needed anymore
The source is The Hill., so I'm not sure this is super credible, here's the link anyways https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/532273-pence-asks-judge-to-toss-gop-lawmakers-bid-to-overturn-election
The lawsuit, filed earlier this week, seeks to expand Pence’s role in an upcoming Jan. 6 meeting of Congress to count states’ electoral votes and finalize Biden’s victory over President Trump.
But in a Thursday brief to Texas-based U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, Pence said he was not a proper defendant to the suit.
“A suit to establish that the Vice President has discretion over the count, filed against the Vice President, is a walking legal contradiction,” a Department of Justice attorney representing Pence wrote in the filing.
Typically, the vice president’s role in presiding over the Jan. 6 meeting is a largely ceremonial one governed by an 1887 federal law known as the Electoral Count Act.
But the Republican lawsuit seeks to invalidate the law as an unconstitutional constraint on the vice president's authority to choose among competing claims of victory when state-level election results are disputed.
Except that it wouldn't allow Pence anything. As the response says, they're suing the wrong party. When I read Gomert's filing, it made no sense to me. Now I see that the Acting Assistant AG agrees with me.
You don't sue a person to empower them. You sue the body that currently has the power.
Let's see "standing", "latches", "Catch-22", or some other dodge.
If you read the entire piece and not just the above blurb.....Pence says the lawsuit should be directed at the House and the Senate.
No going back if true.
TRUST THE PLAN GUYS
we win by losing
what...