(Good move!挾實彭斯預防他出蠱惑背叛)
保守派法律團隊起訴彭斯，要求他拒絕違憲的選舉人團名單
Conservative Legal Team Sues Mike Pence, Demands He Reject Unconstitutional Electoral College Slates
The lawsuit before the Supreme Court seeks to direct the Vice President to refuse to include the Electoral votes from five states until those state legislatures can certify their votes
訴訟在最高法院尋求導向副總統拒絕包括來自五個州的選舉人選票，直到那些州立法機關可以認證他們的選票為止之前
December 24, 2020
In one of the most potent lawsuits to reach the US Supreme Court, the Amistad Project has filed a lawsuit on a point of constitutional order that would force the President of the Senate – Vice President Mike Pence – to remand the Electoral College votes of five states to their respective legislatures for certification.
在到達美國最高法院的其中之一最有力的訴訟中，《阿米斯塔德項目》就憲法的一點提出訴訟，這將迫使參議院的主席 – 副總統彭斯 – 退還五個州的選舉人團投票回各自的立法機關進行認證。
The Thomas More Society’s Amistad Project filed a lawsuit on December 22, 2020, claiming that a several federal and state laws, some enacted under the guise of COVID protection, had unconstitutionally and illegally delegated the authority of the various state legislatures to certify Electoral College votes to state executive branches.
湯馬士摩爾協會的阿米斯塔德項目在12月22日提訴，聲稱幾條聯邦和州法律（其中有些是在冠狀病毒保護的幌子下制定）已違憲地並非法地委派了多州立法機構的權力當局來認證選舉人團的投票到州行政部門。
The Amistad Project is arguing that the state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona – by virtue of this unconstitutional transfer of power, were prohibited from exercising their rightful power under the US Constitution to certify the presidential Electors’ votes cast on December 14, 2020, in their respective states.
Under Article II of the US Constitution, presidential Electors must be appointed by each state in the manner prescribed by the state’s legislature:
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress…”
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The lawsuit charges that Article II prohibits state legislatures from delegating their power to state executive branch officials in any capacity as there is no authority granted to delegate the power.
“There are textual and structural arguments for these state statutes being unconstitutional,” the lawsuit reads, adding that the offending state laws are an “unconstitutional delegation of the state legislative prerogatives of post-election certifications of Presidential votes and of Presidential electors.”
The lawsuit also contends that some of the state legislatures in question, many of which are adjourned until January 2021, are being deliberately prevented from meeting – for partisan political purposes – to perform their post-election certification duty per the US Constitution.
The Amistad Project cited governors in at least two states who refuse to call a special session – per state constitutional stricture – so that the legislatures can legally perform their constitutional mandates.
“The very body that is responsible for how these electors are selected, can’t even meet after the election, up through January. So that’s unconstitutional, in that it’s a delegation of authority to a governor of a legislative function. That is not allowed,” Phil Kline, director of the Amistad Project, told reporters.
The lawsuit names as defendants Vice President Mike Pence, both houses of Congress, and various executive branch and legislative officials from the five states named in the suit.
The relief the Amistad Project seeks from the US Supreme Court is for the High Court to declare sections of the federal and state laws that empower the several state executives with post-election certification authority as unconstitutional.
The lawsuit also seeks to prevent Vice President Mike Pence, who will be presiding over the counting the Electoral College votes, and Congress from including the votes from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin until their individual state legislatures are able to meet and – independent of their states’ executive branches – certify the votes.
A call from National File reporters to Vice President Pence’s chief of staff ended abruptly when the subject of the Vice President’s adherence to his constitutional duties was broached.
To date, his office has not issued a declarative statement as to whether he will execute his constitutional duty to protect the legitimacy of the Electoral College vote.
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