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December 28, 2020
A deep dive into the absolute stupidity of Rep. Gohmert’s lawsuit, claiming Pence gets to pick the next Vice President and President
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Courtside, everyone, a discussion of the post-election litigation brought by Donald Trump. |
0:05.9 | It is day 55 after the election. |
0:09.5 | The litigation count stands at one out of 60 cases that Donald Trump has won, and that one case didn't get him a single vote. |
0:18.7 | There's big news tonight. |
0:20.6 | Team Cracken has a true competitor, a rival for the |
0:24.7 | throne. I know that you thought the pinnacle of lawyering was reached when Sidney Powell filed a lawsuit |
0:32.7 | claiming that Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, rose from the grave and maneuvered to steal the 2020 election |
0:42.8 | for Joe Biden. But we actually have a true rival today, Representative Louis Gomart of Texas, |
0:49.8 | who is so dense that the light bends around him, |
0:59.1 | he filed an absolutely banana's action in court today in federal court in Texas. |
1:05.3 | Like if there were an MVP award but for MFL, most frivolous litigation, |
1:08.2 | Louis Gomeritz, I think got it this time. |
1:10.3 | Here's what the lawsuit says. I kid you not. It says that the vice president |
1:13.8 | is bound by the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to actually count the votes and the votes that counted |
1:20.7 | in different states, but it says that that's actually wrong and unconstitutional. That the |
1:26.5 | vice president is supposed to decide for himself, the lawsuit |
1:30.5 | says, who should be president? And it goes on to say that different states have endorsed rival |
1:38.5 | slates of electors, and they don't really precisely tell us who, but they do say Arizona and several others. |
1:45.6 | And the lawsuit culminates with its claim that under the 12th Amendment to our Constitution, |
1:51.3 | Vice President Pence has the power to pick the next president. |
1:56.9 | Okay, I really don't know where to begin with this nonsense. |
2:03.7 | So first of all, no legislature has appointed some rival slate of electors. |
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