Gohmert sued Pence claiming that Pence has the power, under the Constitution, to NOT count the electoral votes of states that did not vote for Trump. Brilliant! How come no one thought of this in the last 231 years?! You can just keep the opposing party out of power by not counting the votes on the Senate floor! That’s totally how democracy works and what the Founders intended.
Except the Constitution doesn’t say that. “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.” But why let a little think like the Constitution get in the way of a coup by a wanna-be dictator? It’s not like Republicans have been yelling and screaming “the Constitution!!! strict interpretation!!!” from the rooftops since the 1850s.
When it comes to the egel hazahav, this troop will follow him into the ocean because he says it’s dry land.