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Republicans sue Vice President Pence in bid to overturn US election results

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Last updated: 2020/12/28 at 11:17 PM
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Photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, on Aug. 26, 2020 shows screens displaying U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (R) being joined onstage by U.S. President Donald Trump after delivering his speech during the 2020 Republican National Convention from Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
Photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, the United States, on Aug. 26, 2020 shows screens displaying U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (R) being joined onstage by U.S. President Donald Trump after delivering his speech during the 2020 Republican National Convention from Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)
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In a far-fetched bid to overturn the result of the U.S. election, House Representative Louie Gohmert and other fellow Republicans on Monday sued Vice President Mike Pence, who will preside over the upcoming congressional meeting that will finalize Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

The lawsuit, which was joined by Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward and others, focused on Pence’s official capacity as vice president, who the 1887 Electoral Count Act dictates should preside over the largely ceremonial Jan. 6 meeting of Congress to count the Electoral votes and finalize Biden’s win over incumbent President Donald Trump.

The litigation asked Texas-based federal judge Jeremy Kernodle to grant Pence the “exclusive authority and sole discretion” to decide which electoral votes from a given state should be counted.

It argued that the Electoral Count Act violated the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which stipulated that “the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.” In the United States, the vice president also serves as the president of the Senate.

When electors across the states cast their Electoral College votes on Dec. 14 to elect Biden for president, Republican “electors” in states like Arizona cast their own votes for Trump in a bid to disrupt the electoral process. The lawsuit urged Pence to recognize those pro-Trump votes rather than the actual Democratic votes.

“That, with respect to competing slates of electors from the State of Arizona or other Contested States, the Twelfth Amendment contains the exclusive dispute resolution mechanisms, namely, that (i) Vice-President Pence determines which slate of electors’ votes count, or neither, for that State,” the lawsuit said.

Law experts by and large believed there’s little chance for the lawsuit to achieve what it wanted, with Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe on Twitter calling it “the dumbest lawsuit of all.”

Biden won the Nov. 3 presidential election by more than 7 million votes and earned 306 Electoral College votes, compared to Trump’s 232.

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