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A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert's lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence, which was designed to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Trump.
The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, comprised of Reagan appointees Patrick Higginbotham and Jerry Smith, as well as Trump appointee Andrew Oldham, issued a two-page ruling affirming a district court’s Friday decision rejecting Gohmert’s arguments over lack of standing.
“This administrative panel is presented with an emergency motion for expedited appeal … We have the benefit of the briefing before the district court and its 13-page opinion styled Order of Dismissal, issued January 1, 2021. That order adopts the position of the Department of Justice, finding that the district court lacks jurisdiction because no plaintiff has the standing demanded by Article III,” the trio wrote Saturday. “We need say no more, and we affirm the judgment essentially for the reasons stated by the district court. We express no view on the underlying merits or on what putative party, if any, might have standing. The motion to expedite is dismissed as moot.”