After a Trump-appointed federal judge rejected Rep. Louie Gohmert’s lawsuit seeking to give Vice President Pence the power to throw out the electoral votes of states that voted for Biden, Gohmert appealed to a the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Yesterday, a three-judge panel of judges, all appointed by Republican presidents, dismissed Gohmert’s lawsuit.
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Saturday rejected a Republican congressman’s bid to allow Vice President Mike Pence to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s Nov. 3 election victory in favor of President Donald Trump.
In a brief order, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge’s decision on Friday to toss U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert’s lawsuit, which had argued that Pence had the power to invalidate Biden’s win when Congress meets to certify the results on Wednesday.
Trump, a Republican, has refused to concede to Biden, claiming without evidence that his victory was due to widespread fraud. Dozens of election officials and judges around the country have dismissed Trump’s allegations..
Gohmert, a Texas Republican and staunch Trump ally, filed the lawsuit along with Republican electors from Arizona, asserting that Pence could throw out electoral votes in his role as the presiding officer of the Senate.
The Justice Department opposed Gohmert’s lawsuit.
But U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, ruled on Friday that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue because they had not suffered any personal harm.
The 5th Circuit judges, all appointed by Republican presidents, including a Trump appointee, agreed. The Justice Department, representing Pence, had opposed the lawsuit.
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I wonder if Pence is wearing earplugs so he can’t hear Trump yelling at him.
The New York Times reported that Fox Trump supporter Jeanine Piro was L. Lin Wood’s date for the recent Faith and Family event where he spoke. Wood is one of Trump’s most ardent supporters. In addition to his role in the legal challenges to the election, Wood acts/acted as lawyer for the St. Louis couple who brandished weapons at protestors, for QAnon fan, Marjorie Greene, for Kyle Rittenhouse and, for Nicholas Sandmann who was in the news last year as part of the Covington Catholic High School contingent that visited the capitol to protest abortion.
A professor who knew Wood in the past described the current Wood as having no resemblance to the man he knew. Wood, in response to the characterization replied, ‘God changed my life”.
Covington Catholic High school is widely reported to be one of the Catholic schools that
has students recite a revised Pledge of Allegiance that states, “…and liberty and justice for the born and unborn.”
People who think the Catholic Church is currently moving in the direction of liberalism are wrong. People who dismiss the political influence of conservative religion on the direction the nation is headed are wrong.
If you read Lin Wood’s Twitter feed, you will question his sanity.
L. Lin Wood, “Our Constitution is based on God’s laws…a man of God would never certify a lie”. Presumably Trump’s lies are o.k. because he doesn’t certify them.
A reader’s comment at Law and Crime directed at Jenna Ellis, “You don’t get to divorce yourself from the insanity once it gets too out of hand for you. You poured gasoline on the fire, you own the ashes.”
Jenna Ellis tweeted that she disassociated herself from the extreme claims made by Lin Wood. She said, “I’m dedicated to the rule of law and the Constitution.” Wood tweeted back, “So am I.”
Ellis and Wood filed many of Trump’s failed lawsuits.
Nothing is more humiliating than rejected by his own judges. I can imagine that insane clown’s head is about to explode before he is ready to fly away with his swollen head.