Mod: It's kind of like suing somebody's dog. Only worse.'I can't even describe it': Dem lawyer stunned by Trump supporters''really dumb' lawsuit against Mike Pence (Raw Storylink): Trump supporters who are desperate to stop President-elect Joe Biden from being sworn in have now filed a lawsuit against a very unexpected target. As flagged by Democratic election law attorney Marc Elias, the conservative Thomas More Society has now filed a lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence and the entire electoral college in a desperate bid to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The lawsuit names
Pence as a defendant due to his "legal obligations under the
Constitution and federal law" to preside over
Congress's ratification of the presidential election that's due to take place on January 6th.
The suit claims that Pence should not be allowed to count the electoral college's votes because state legislatures have not "affirmatively voted to certify the Presidential electors," despite the fact that the electoral college has already voted and given Biden 306 votes, which is more than what he needs to win the presidency.
"The
Vice President and
U.S. Congress act unconstitutionally in this election and future elections when they count votes of
Presidential electors where the respective state legislature has not affirmatively voted in favor of post-election certification," the lawsuit states.
Commenting on Twitter, Elias says he can't even be bothered to do a detailed analysis of the suit's claims because they make such little sense. "I can't even describe it," he wrote of the lawsuit. "It's really dumb."
Trump leaves office historically disgraced in the eyes of the public — while Biden gets high marks (
Raw Storylink): Although
Joe Biden's inauguration is less than a month away,
President Donald Trump is still refusing to acknowledge his win and pushing debunked claims that widespread fraud tainted the election. But while
Trump seems to have convinced much of his party that the election was illegitimate, recent polls from
Fox News and
Gallup show his dismal standing with the population as a whole.
Analyzing the data,
CNN's Harry Enten stressed that
Trump is leaving office with historically low marks. One of the most striking numbers: 42 percent of
Fox News' respondents said he will be remembered as "one of the country's worst presidents." And 44% said they "strongly disapprove" of his job performance.
"
Pollsters have been asking
Americans about how history will take stock of different presidents at the end of their presidencies since
Gerald Ford,"
Enten wrote. "No president has garnered as many strongly negative feelings as
Trump. The only president who came even close to getting as many low ratings, in a five-category question, was
George W. Bush in a
Gallup poll at the end of his presidency; 36% said he would go down as a 'poor' president."
Only 22% of people now say
Trump would be remembered as "one of the country's greatest presidents"— the way he explicitly sells himself. Another 8 percent said he was "below average" as a president.
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