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Loony Louie Gohmert just had his zany lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence tossed on the sad heap of Krakens. Gohmert and some other Republicans were trying to get the courts to require Pence to abuse his position as U.S. Senate presiding officer to make his own call about which electors counted on January 6.
Once again, the nonsense of the Republicans legal clown car was rejected by a Republican judge appointed to his post by Donald Trump. This time it was Judge Jeremy Kernodle hammering one more nail in the judicial coffin.
LawandCrime.com had this report tonight:
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against Vice President Mike Pence by Rep. Louie Gohmert and fake pro-Trump electors on Friday, finding that plaintiffs lacked standing.
Legal experts slam Louis Gohmert The Texas Tribune
January 6 is now just days away but President Donald Trump and his allies appear to have no intention of giving up on their fight to overturn the presidential election but they continue to come up short. In fact, a federal judge tossed out Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Trump s fake electors lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence. The problem for Plaintiffs here is that they lack standing. Plaintiff Louie Gohmert, the United States Representative for Texas s First Congressional District, alleges at most an institutional injury to the House of Representatives. Under well-settled Supreme Court authority, that is insufficient to support standing, Kernodle wrote. The other Plaintiffs, the slate of Republican Presidential Electors for the State of Arizona (the Nominee-Electors ), allege an injury that is not fairly traceable to the Defendant, the Vice President of the United States, and is unlikely to be redr
The Hawaii County Democratic Party has selected three people to potentially fill the spot vacated by State Senator Kai Kahele. Kahele is now the United States Representative for the neighbor islands and rural O’ahu, having been elected on Nov. 3. The selection committee of 44, comprised of the party’s precinct officers and district council officers who reside in Senate District 1, met Wednesday evening to hear from the candidates who applied. The final selections:
Christopher Toshiro Todd, the State Representative for District 2, who has also worked as a football and basketball coach for Hilo students and as a manager for Hawaiʻi Paper Products;