January 2, 2021 11:02 a.m.
A federal judge in Texas on Friday tossed out a lawsuit by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) that sought to overturn the results of the presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle issued an order dismissing the case after finding Gohmert’s alleged injury “far too uncertain to support standing.”
The decision by the Trump-appointed judge comes after Gohmert and a group of President Donald Trump’s allies argued that a vice president has the power to decide who wins a presidential election, regardless of the results.
The judge criticized Gohmert’s efforts at mounting “speculative” scenarios that presupposed “what the Vice President will do on January 6, which electoral votes the Vice President will count or reject from contested states, whether a Representative and a Senator will object under Section 15 of the Electoral Count Act, how each member of the House and Senate will vote on any such objections, and how each state delegation in the House would potentially vote under the Twelfth Amendment absent a majority electoral vote.”