Clarification.
The Justice Department has asked a federal judge to dismiss a last-gasp lawsuit led by a House Republican that seeks to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to overturn the results of the presidential election won by Joe Biden when Congress formally counts the Electoral College votes next week.
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The suit names Pence, who has a largely ceremonial role in next week’s proceedings, as the defendant and asks the court to throw out the 1887 law that spells out how Congress handles the vote counting. It asserts that the vice president “may exercise the exclusive authority and sole discretion in determining which electoral votes to count for a given State.”
The Justice Department is representing Pence in a case that aims to find a way to keep his boss, President Donald Trump, in power. In a court filing in Texas on Wednesday, the department said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and a group of Republican electors from Arizona “have sued the wrong defendant” — if, in fact, any of those suing actually have “a judicially cognizable claim.”
The department says, in effect, that the suit objects to long-standing procedures laid out in law, “not any actions that Vice President Pence has taken,” so he should not be the target of the suit.
His role isn’t “largely ceremonial” and they know it. He could choose to throw away the ballots of any state he chooses.
He won’t.
And I hope this ends the ridiculous talk over 4Chan and other places of Pence being the hero of the day and riding in on his white horse and saving the republic by ignoring the electors from states where there was obvious fraud.
No one is coming to save you. The deep state will do this until it fears you.
Pence is a deep state actor, and we’ve known that for a very long time. Here is something for which I will never forgive Pence. He was the first out of the gate to turn on Gen. Michael Flynn. He is responsible for Flynn’s torment over almost four years. And Trump was stupid enough to listen to Pence. He should have told Pence to go home and work on writing letters to people or something where he couldn’t hurt anything. But then, Trump should never have chosen him as a running mate to begin with.
Pence knew the danger Flynn posed to the deep state and its intelligence apparatus, and Pence acted in accordance with his master’s wishes.
