Bug-eyed buffoonery masquerading as state and federal lawsuits has characterized Team Trump & Allies' desperate efforts to overthrow a democratic election and re-enthrone the criminally implicated "Individual-1" as president of the United States. In case after case, unhinged frivolity has defined their cause — the Texas lawsuit being the most sorry-assed of all.
Until now.
Rep. Louie Gohmert's suit against U.S. Vice President and Senate President Mike Pence has outdone the others — and itself — in careening totally off the rails. "America's craziest and dumbest congressman," as Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt accurately pegged him
— he of "terror babies" and warm pipelines of oil contributing to the mating thrills of caribou — has seemingly discovered a constitutional loophole that anoints Mr. Pence as the sole decider in chief of who gets to crap on Air Force One. To wit:
"Under the Twelfth Amendment, Defendant Pence alone has the exclusive authority and sole discretion to open and permit the counting of the electoral votes for a given state, and where there are competing slates of electors, or where there is objection to any single slate of electors, to determine which electors’ votes, or whether none, shall be counted," asserts his lawsuit.
Pence's "executive authority" under the Twelfth Amendment's wording?
"The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President."
The amendment says nothing about the Senate president's "sole discretion" to pick and choose votes, and of course the "certificates" before him will be, rather logically, those which state officials have certified. His job is only to count them.
Louie's real talent as a United States representative lies in his singular ability to foster, say, just the right romantic ambience for love-making caribou — and it's that sort of genius to which he should return.