Tag: Vice President Mike Pence

6 Democrat and Republican 2024 Candidates Weigh In After SCOTUS Strikes Down Biden Student Debt Cancellation Plan

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…


Pence Was Required to Answer Most Questions in Special Council’s Trump Probe, Newly-Released Docs Show

A federal judge required Vice President Mike Pence to answer most questions posed to him in Special Council Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump, newly-unsealed records show. The court records were released on June 9 and showed that Pence’s motion to refuse a subpoena from Smith was effectively denied by D.C. District Court Chief…


Nikki Haley Breaks From Trump In Interview About a Potential Run for President

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in a recent interview broke from Trump, criticizing his actions in relation to the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol. Haley, in a lengthy profile interview with Politico focused on her former boss and a possible run for the presidency in 2024, said that she does not believe Trump will…


Congress Certifies Electoral College Votes for Biden

Congress early Thursday certified the U.S. Electoral College vote for Joe Biden in an election shadowed by a series of allegations of irregularities and election fraud. In a tally read by Vice President Mike Pence, Biden garnered 306 electoral votes while President Donald Trump won 232. The joint session of Congress concluded following a tumultuous…


Congress Resumes, Pence Denounces Violence

Congress resumed on Wednesday evening after protesters earlier in the day breached the U.S. Capitol building. The U.S. House and Senate temporarily halted the joint session of Congress on Wednesday after protesters breached the Capitol building, interrupting concurrent debates in the two chambers over an objection to the counting of a slate of presidential electors from Arizona…


Congress Reconvenes, Pence Denounces Violence

Congress reconvened Wednesday evening after protesters earlier in the day breached the U.S. Capitol building. About six hours prior, the U.S. House and Senate temporarily halted Congress after protesters breached the Capitol building, interrupting concurrent debates in the two chambers over an objection to the counting of a slate of 11 presidential electors from Arizona for presidential…


Pence: Constitution ‘Constrains Me’ From Rejecting Electoral Votes

Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday said that he doesn’t believe he has the “unilateral authority” to decide between competing slates of electors. “It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,”…


Trump: If Vice President Comes Through, ‘We Will Win the Presidency’

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will win a second term if Vice President Mike Pence takes action while Congress counts electoral votes. If Pence “comes through for us, we will win the Presidency,” Trump asserted in a tweet. “Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers…


Video: Louie Gohmert Explains His Electoral College Lawsuit, Risks to Civility

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,…


House Asks Court to Dismiss Effort to Clarify Vice President’s Power in Electoral Counting

The House of Representatives is asking a court to reject a petition from Republicans that requests judges to say Vice President Mike Pence has the authority to reject some electoral votes. “This Court should reject plaintiffs’ effort to overturn Congress’s centuries-old role in counting electoral votes and resolving disputes about them in the constitutionally mandated…