As expected, the suit brought by Rep and Head Clown Louie Gohmert (R-TX) to give Pence the authority to, well, reject any Elector’s Vote that he sees fit was tossed out on its ear today:
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit from Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas and several Arizona Republicans seeking to force Vice President Mike Pence to help throw the election to President Donald Trump next week when Congress meets to count the Electoral College votes.
Judge Jeremy Kernodle of the Eastern District of Texas said on Friday that Gohmert and the others lacked standing to sue.
Gohmert’s suit was part of the desperate and extraordinary GOP attempt to overturn the presidential election using baseless and unproven allegations of mass voter fraud and charging that multiple states that President-elect Joe Biden won illegally changed their voting rules due to the pandemic. Those arguments have failed dozens of times in state and federal courts over the past two months. [CNN/Politics]
Too bad Judge Kernodle ruled against them on the grounds they had no standing to sue. It would have been far more impressive if he’d told them that Pence’s duties are administrative, and do not involve free authority.
In other words, batting Gohmert on the nose and telling him to go lay down by his dish until released from his punishment.
Of course, the grandstanding Representative is trying to attract attention as a Trump supporter. For him, the stability and the Republic is not of importance; only his sense of self-importance, and of being a Trump supporter, is served here. Whether, in two years at the next reelection run, this is a positive is up in the air. If, under the management of Biden and the Democrat-controlled House, the United States is back to prospering, Gohmert may find himself being primaried – by a moderate Republican. And losing. And even being RINOed – from the (relative) left, rather than the frenetic far-right.
Here’s hoping.
