[Epoch Times January 07, 2021](The Epoch Times reporter Zachary Stieber / Zhang Yujie compiled) US Representative Louie Gohmert (Louie Gohmert) of Texas on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to intervene against Vice President MikePens(Exclusive authority) prosecution. Previously, both the district court and the appeal court rejected the case.
Gomert, Arizona Republican Electors and other plaintiffs filed an urgent application for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to intervene in the prosecutionPensCase. Alito was appointed by former President Bush Jr.
The plaintiff asked the court to declare that Pence had “exclusive powers” on January 6.CongressReject the disputed stateElectoral vote. Some provisions of the 1887 “Electoral Count Act” (Electoral Count Act) restricted this power of the Vice President and violated the U.S. Constitution.
Given that January 6 isCongressOn the day, the 86-page indictment demanded an urgent response from the Supreme Court.
The plaintiff stated that if a temporary relief plan is not adopted, Pence will invoke the unconstitutional content of the “Election Counting Act”, and the 2020 election will not be amended if (Pence) chooses a candidate who has not won. If you are elected president, then even if you impeach you later, you will not be able to put the true winner of this election into office.
U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Kernodle dismissed Gomert’slitigation, Claiming that Gomert’s allegations are at best the institutional damage to the House of Representatives.
Gomert responded by saying: “According to the confirmed powers of the Supreme Court, it is no longer sufficient to support. If I don’t do it, no one will do it.”
A panel of three judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected the appeal on January 2.
On the day of Gomert’s appeal to the Supreme Court and before the joint meeting of Congress, Pence issued a statement saying that he did not think he had the “unilateral power” to reject the electoral college votes.
He said: “After careful consideration, I judged that I vowed to support and uphold the Constitution, which made me have no right to unilaterally decide which electoral college votes should be counted and which should not.”
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