The last thing you want is for a court to determine on the merits what the scope of Pence’s power is here.
As it stands, this is a massive constitutional gray area, which essentially gives plausible deniability should pence go through with it. Ie “the law is not settled on how I count electors, watch me do it how I see fit”
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
It’s early. We need 30 senators on board before weds. Then it is up to the crowd to shake the fear of god into the rest on 01/06.
Going into weds, we need enough legislators that there is adequate cover for the remaining cowards to sidle on over to our side. Ideally, in a mutiny of McConnell
Idk whether his specific accusations have merit, but there is reporting that Pence is not on board with our elector plan.
He consented to house dems joining his Motion to dismiss the Gohmert suit. That he has even filed such a motion raises my eyebrow
Zoom call from the back room of Madam Xi’s rub and tug