Judge dismisses Gohmert lawsuit seeking to stymie Biden electoral college count
A federal judge in Texas has dismissed a long-shot lawsuit by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) that sought to overturn the presidential election, saying neither the congressman nor his allies have legal standing to pursue the case.
The judge’s Friday night ruling tosses out what many election law experts considered a far-fetched theory to challenge the formal mechanism by which President-elect Joe Biden will be affirmed as the winner of the race for president.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle issued an order dismissing the case because, he found, neither Gohmert nor his fellow plaintiffs have a sufficient legal stake in the process to justify the lawsuit. Kernodle was nominated to the federal bench by President Trump.
The judge’s ruling comes less than 12 hours after lawyers for Gohmert filed court papers arguing that Vice President Pence has far more power than the government claims to alter the outcome of the presidential election. Gohmert’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal later Friday night.
The piece goes on to explain just how silly the court sees this latest attempt to be, and that (basically) making shit up about what you presuppose will happen isn't a good premise in law.
But here's the thing:
For better than 25 years, "conservatives" have spent lots of time and energy and money making loud noises about how much they hate "judicial activism" - what they say is the courts making law.
But those same "conservatives" are constantly petitioning the courts to do exactly that - create law, made-to-order, custom-fit and purpose-built to support the Republicans' ambitions.
Republicans are acting like they hired those judges to be their own private contractors who're paid to do whatever the GOP tells them to do.
