Pence asks judge to reject GOP lawmaker’s proposal to overturn election results

Vice President Pence on Thursday asked a federal judge to reject an offer from the representative. Louie gohmertLouis (Louie) Buller Gohmert: Here are Republicans planning to challenge Electoral College results Pence refused to sign to plan for the election to be canceled, lawyers say Pence’s former aide has become Trump’s critic ‘very concerned ” by the violence of January 6 MORE (R-Texas) and other Republicans to expand Pence’s powers in a way that would effectively allow him to overthrow the president-elect Joe bidenJoe BidenTrump cuts his trip to Florida short and returns to Washington on Thursday Intel vice president says government agency cyberattack “ may have started earlier. ” Trump administration declassifies unconfirmed intelligence on Chinese bounties on US forces in Afghanistanelectoral victory of.

The lawsuit, filed earlier this week, aims to expand Pence’s role at an upcoming congressional meeting on January 6 to count state electoral votes and finalize Biden’s victory over President TrumpDonald Trump Trump cuts his trip to Florida short and returns to Washington on Thursday Intel vice president says the cyberattack on a government agency “ may have started earlier. ”.

But in a brief Thursday to Trump-appointed Texas-based U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, Pence said he was not a full defendant.

“A lawsuit to establish that the vice president has discretion over the account, brought against the vice president, is a walking legal contradiction,” a Department of Justice attorney representing Pence wrote in the case.

Typically, the vice president’s role in chairing the Jan. 6 meeting is largely ceremonial governed by a federal law of 1887 known as the Electoral Tally Act.

But the Republican lawsuit seeks to overturn the law as an unconstitutional constraint on the vice president’s power to choose among competing claims of victory when state-level election results are challenged.

Republicans in several key battlefield states have contested Biden’s victory and have proposed alternative “lists” of pro-Trump voters beginning Jan.6, but experts say these efforts carry no legal weight.

Update at 6:10 p.m.