Louie!
Oh Y’all, oh. oh. oh.
Louie has sued Vice President Mike Pence. In court. Where lawyers hang out. No kidding.
This is all about the Vice President’s ceremonial role on January 6th, consisting of having the Congress count states’ electoral votes and finalize Joe Biden as the winner of the election.
But the Republican lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, asks a federal judge in Texas to strike down the law as unconstitutional. The GOP plaintiffs go further: They ask the court to grant Pence the authority on Jan. 6 to effectively overturn Trump’s defeat in key battleground states.
Now, not even getting into the constitutionality of this, think about what happens next – if this is the new law, then one party has the power to overturn every election from now to eternity because they’ll just keep appointing themselves after the election.
But, if you want to get into the constitutionality, we can do that. I’m pretty sure that the constitution does not allow the vice president to overturn an election. Pretty damn sure.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
No wonder Pence wants to be anywhere but DC. I hope East Texas is proud of Louie because the rest of us are disgusted!
1My guess is that Pence won’t respond to the complaint – what happens if they get a wingnut judge that issues default judgement?
Hopefully, someone will file an amicus brief noting that the rules of civil procedure only allow federal courts to resolve disputes between “the legal relations of parties having adverse legal interests.”
As Mike Pence and Louie Gohmert lack adverse legal interests in an issue as to whether Mike Pence gets to pick whichever electors would keep Mike Pence in office, the federal courts lack subject matter jurisdiction.
2As much as it pains me to say this, Louie plays to his constituents and obviously knows them well. They just reelected him, after all.
3So, part of the Constitution is unconstitutional. Goober has now taken the Dumbest Man In Congress title back from RonJon. At least for now.
4Gooby Gohmert has a new mate in the dumbass club, Kelli Ward. She brings a number of her Arizona disciples with her from another of the nuttiest states in the union (at least in the repugnantican party). Wonder who the attorney is that will represent the plaintiffs, sidney powell or giuliani or jenna ellis?
5Then there’s Pence, the hibernating vice president, who by his silence just encourages these crazy lawsuits. January 6 is going be a circus.
Teh Gerg @6: Louie sees Marjorie Taylor Greene and that other Q-nut from Colorado coming, and knows he’s gotta step up his game to keep his title.
6Yeah but, there are more than Seventy Million batshit-crazy-to-10-Xpower Rethuglikan lunatics out there walking around who lap this bullshit up and eagerly beg for more.
Somewhere around 80% of Repukes still fanatically -believe- that PE Joe Biden and his librul Demonrat minions stole the election from their Dear Leader Comrade Donnei.
Loopy Louie is just smart enough to try to get aboard the same kind of fundrai$ing grifter gravy train that DJT is conducting. Lots of Rethugs are dumb enough to chip in a mite.
7If brains was lard Louie wouldn’t have enough to grease a skillet.
8Now can we finally label the GOP as an extremist terrorist organization?!
9If it quacks like a duck …
You know, they just don’t make ’em like Louie Gohmert anymore! But just to be on the safe side he should be castrated anyway.
10Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop.
11For graduating Louie, Baylor Law School should have its accreditation withdrawn.
12Haven’t been here in a while, NY has its own nuts, but just had to see your thoughts on Louie.
13Lord have mercy, Louie Gohmert is, as you have often said, JJ, dumber than bean dip. I guess he does what his constituents want him to do, though. His district must be a scary place.
14thatotherjean. my late sister-in-law lived in Louie’s district. The folks there were nice as could be (as long as I kept being white) but the undercurrents were weird.
She moved in as a flower child, ended up as a raving talibangelical.
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