Former President Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson on Aug. 23 that former Vice President Mike Pence “got very bad advice” about his role in the certification of electoral votes. Though the two men long enjoyed a good relationship, that relationship fell apart in the aftermath of Congress’s certification of electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, […]
Former President Donald Trump would have kept at least a couple thousand U.S. troops in Afghanistan despite his 2020 peace agreement with the Taliban, according to former Vice President Mike Pence. In February 2020, the Trump Administration reached a deal (pdf) with the Taliban to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan within 14 months, so […]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation attempt has elicited a range of celebrations from Biden’s 2024 presidential challengers. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that Biden could not excuse student debt repayments through the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (HEROES Act) or […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee, has called on the U.S. Secret Service to release any visitor logs they keep of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, as well as former Vice President Mike Pence’s home in Carmel, Indiana. Raskin sent a letter to U.S. Secret Service Director […]
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) made headlines recently by filing a lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence, seeking to declare the Electoral Count Act of 1887 unconstitutional, which would expand the authority of Pence when Electoral Votes are counted on Jan. 6. To learn more about this, and about what will happen when votes on counted, […]
On Sunday, the House of Representatives and the Senate adopted rules that outline how the counting of Electoral College votes will take place on Jan. 6. The guidance was introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The chambers will meet in a joint session on Jan. 6 presided over by Vice President Mike Pence. Mike Pence’s chief of […]
President Donald Trump asserted on Tuesday that Vice President Mike Pence has the power to reject electors that were fraudulently chosen, echoing statements made by his legal team in recent days ahead of Jan. 6’s Joint Session of Congress. “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors,” Trump wrote on Tuesday in […]
A number of House members and senators say they will object to electoral slates in Wednesday’s joint session of Congress. Representative Mo Brooks is leading the move in the House. Both Representative Adam Kinzinger and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows suggest over 100 House members will support the bid. Vice President Mike Pence said he […]
A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and other Republicans against Vice President Mike Pence, who is due to preside over a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6 for the formal certification of states’ electoral votes.
Vice President Mike Pence asked a federal judge on Thursday to reject an effort to give him “exclusive authority” to decide which Electoral College votes should be counted during the upcoming joint session of Congress. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and other Republicans last week filed a lawsuit against Pence, requesting that the court grant Pence power to […]
A federal judge’s decision in the lawsuit filed against Vice President Mike Pence by a fellow Republican could substantially alter how the events unfold when Congress convenes for a joint session on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes, according to Constitutional expert Rick Greene. While the main thrust of the lawsuit filed by […]
As the Jan. 6 count of the Electoral College votes for US president draw near, the powers of Vice President Mike Pence in the counting are being called into question. And in other news, Joe Biden is accusing the Department of Defense of obstructing his transition team. In this live Q&A with Crossroads host Joshua […]
The US House of Representatives voted on December 28 to override Trump’s veto of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. The vote now goes to the Senate and could push through regardless of Trump’s move. Also, GOP lawmakers including Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) filed a lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence in a bid to […]
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) filed a lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence to give Pence “exclusive authority” to decide which Electoral College votes should be counted. According to the lawsuit (pdf), Pence has a role in the upcoming Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress to count all 50 states’ Electoral College votes. Gohmert’s lawsuit […]
Vice President Mike Pence went to Turning Point USA in person to speak with the young political activists there. He said he came to say thank you, but also to issue a challenge. During his speech, the vice president said they’re going to keep on fighting in the election. He said when the runoff elections […]
Vice President Pence encouraged future generations to stand for freedom at the Turning Point USA conference in Florida, Georgia Senator Ligon is again asking senators to take a stand against election fraud, and a new report shows security breaches almost doubled in Washington state this year, costing them millions of dollars.
