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Vice President Mike Pence is seemingly disinterested in getting on board with a plan that would prevent Congress from certifying the election in January for President-elect Joe Biden. Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert and Arizona s slate of Republican Electoral College electors filed a federal lawsuit earlier this week in a bid to get a judge to declare that Pence had the ultimate discretion to pick Republican electors when he certifies the presidential election in his capacity as President of the Senate.
A legal filing in the case suggested that Gohmert and the electors lawyers had tried to work out a deal with Pence but failed, thereby prompting the lawsuit, Politico reported. In the teleconference, Plaintiff s counsel made a meaningful attempt to resolve the underlying legal issues by agreement, including advising the Vice President s counsel that Plaintiffs intended to seek immediate injunctive relief in the event the
Republican senator to contest Electoral College win for Joe Biden
The challenge means there will be at least a short delay in Mr Biden’s confirmation
30 December 2020 • 6:19pm
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri breaks with Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, in declaring he would contest the certification of electoral vote
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A Republican senator on Wednesday announced that he would object next week when Congress convenes to certify the electoral college vote, in a doomed attempt to upend Joe Biden’s victory.
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri broke with Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, and other prominent Republicans in declaring he would contest the certification of electoral college vote, following calls to do so from President Donald Trump.
Boycott Walmart : Retail giant is slammed and forced to apologize after its Twitter account called Senator Josh Hawley a sore loser following Republican s pledge to challenge Biden s election
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley announced Wednesday he would join GOP House members and object to Electoral College vote counts on January 6
Hawley, the junior senator from Missouri, said that Congress should investigate voter fraud because some states failed to follow their own election laws
Walmart s Twitter account trolled Hawley, writing: Go ahead. Get your two-hour debate. The tweet, which was later deleted, ended with the hashtag #soreloser
Hawley clapped back at the Arkansas-based retailer, slamming it for its insulting condescension
Trump s ultra-loyalists launch yet another lawsuit to overturn election: GOP representative Louie Gohmert and Arizona s Republican electors ask judge to rule that Mike Pence can pick which electoral votes count
Rep. Louie Gohmert and Arizona s slate of Republican Electoral College electors are suing Vice President Mike Pence
The lawsuit, which was described by one expert as jaw-droppingly stupid, aims to give Pence the power to choose GOP electors over Democratic ones
On December 14, when members of the Electoral College were voting in state capitals, GOP electors met too and cast votes for President Donald Trump
As president of the Senate, Pence is supposed to chair next week s meeting of Congress when the Electoral College votes are counted