Judge Throws Out Republican Election Lawsuit Targeting VP Pence

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A federal judge on Friday dismissed a bid by Rep. Louie Gohmert (Texas) and other Republicans that sought to endow Vice President Pence with the legal authority to effectively overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral win.

In his ruling, Texas-based U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, said the GOP plaintiffs lacked standing. The judge found that Gohmert suffered no legally recognizable injury.

The other plaintiffs, a group of Arizona Republicans who self-identify as an alternate “slate” of pro-Trump electors, could not link their supposed injury to Pence, he reasoned.

Read more at The Hill

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1 COMMENT

  1. Basically the lawsuit called for the Vice President and the Vice President alone to decide who becomes President for the next four years.

    Amazing that any American could support such an undemocratic system.

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