The whack-a-mole continues.
Remember those alternate electors? Suppose that Mike Pence, as president of the senate, could choose which set to count?
The Constitution appears to clearly limit the role of the president of the senate to opening the envelopes with the counting actually done by Congress. Most experts agree that Pence has no discretion in the matter.
But Louis Gohmert, arguably the dumbest man in the House of Representatives, has decided to challenge that conclusion in court.
Gohmert's suit claim that legislatures in several states (you know who they are) have selected alternate slates of electors. This is flat out not true. Trump electors have held votes for Trump but none of these votes have been approved by a state legislature.
The suit further claims that Mike Pence, as president of the senate, has the authority to decide which competing slate of electors to select and is asking the courts to declare that as fact.
The fact that this would VIOLATE the rules for selecting electors actually put into place by the state legislatures seems to have escaped Gohmert. Hopefully it won't escape the court.
Keep your powder dry folks because this is really getting fucking ridiculous.
We desperately need to either scrap the electoral college and go to some sort of administrative popular vote count or reform 3 US Code Chapter 1 § 15 because it is a mess.
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