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TakinDownTheCCP 58 points ago +59 / -1

Can someone tell me what exactly he said that counted him as being “out”. I mean I know of one statement that could be taken in many different contexts that made it look like he didn’t want to make that final decision. But is there anything else really out there that points to him as being a traitor?

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Legiapede 75 points ago +75 / -0

That he moved to dismiss the gohmert suit.

What ppl don’t realize is that the basis for his motion to dismiss was, in essence “I had that power already”

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Tr3nchesPT 4 points ago +5 / -1

No way really?

The suit was to give Pence power to unilaterally discard electors, does he really already have that power?

Then it's set in stone that it all depends on Pence.

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Legiapede 14 points ago +14 / -0

Pence doesn’t just have the power, there is literal precedent that he may pick when he is presented with 2 slates of competing electors, and a constitutional obligation to count only lawful electors.

That does not mean pence is the only route. Congress may object to electors, force the 2 hour debate per state, and should they fail to reach majority agreement as to a course, trigger the contingent election clause in the constitution, without pence doing a thing