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House Asks Court to Dismiss Effort to Clarify Vice President’s Power in Electoral Counting
The House of Representatives is asking a court to reject a petition from Republicans that requests judges to say Vice President Mike Pence has the authority to reject some electoral votes.
“This Court should reject plaintiffs’ effort to overturn Congress’s centuries-old role in counting electoral votes and resolving disputes about them in the constitutionally mandated Joint Session,” the House said in an amicus brief on Dec. 31.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and other Republicans this week sued Pence, asking a judge to authorize Pence to pick Republican electors over Democratic ones. They said the U.S. Constitution gives Pence the “exclusive authority” to decide which Electoral College votes to count, and that a portion of the Electoral Count Act of 1877 is unconstitutional.
Texas judge dismisses suit aimed at overturning election
By The Associated PressUpdated January 1, 2021, 9:17 p.m.
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Representative Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, listens during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
WASHINGTON (AP) â A federal judge on Friday dismissed a last-gasp lawsuit led by a House Republican that aimed 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.
Pence, as president of the Senate, will oversee the session Wednesday and declare the winner of the White House race. The Electoral College this month cemented Bidenâs 306-232 victory, and multiple legal efforts by President Donald Trumpâs campaign to challenge the results have failed.
Vice President Pence Must Be Guided by the 12th Amendment, Not the Electoral Count Act, on Jan. 6
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On Monday, I wrote on these pages that Vice President Mike Pence, as president of the Senate, would be violating his oath of office were he to count the electoral votes cast for Joe Biden in the six disputed swing states Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada because the governors of those states had “certified” the Biden-pledged electors, despite a demonstrably fraudulent election, and in contravention of the wishes of some state lawmakers, which had sent Trump-pledged electors who cast “dueling” votes for President Trump at the Dec. 14 Electoral College.