Louie Gohmert alongside other Republicans are suing Vice President Pence in an effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit centers on Pence’s role in a Congressional meeting on Jan. 6 to formalize the state’s Electoral votes. The lawsuit filed in Texas asks that Pence is granted the authority to overturn the results in multiple battleground states. Pence’s role in presiding over the meeting is mostly ceremonial governed by the Electoral Count Act of 1887.

The Hill reports:

But the Republican lawsuit, which was filed against Pence in his official capacity as vice president, asks a federal judge in Texas to strike down the law as unconstitutional. The GOP plaintiffs go further: They ask the court to grant Pence the authority on Jan. 6 to effectively overturn Trump’s defeat in key battleground states.

The GOP lawsuit is premised on the dubious notion that the election results in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are in doubt, despite Biden winning each of those states by a decisive margin. The litigants seek to authorize Pence to select slates of electors from those states who would cast votes for Trump rather than Biden.

Election law experts said there’s a strong possibility that U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a Trump appointee, would find that Gohmert, Ward and the other Republican litigants lacked a legal right to sue.

“I’m not at all sure that the court will get to the merits of this lawsuit, given questions about the plaintiffs’ standing to bring this kind of claim, as well as other procedural obstacles,” Foley said.

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