In the note, received by Politico, Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacobs, evaluated a proposal by Trump’s legal adviser, John Eastman, on how Pence could refuse to count the ballots from “any state for which an alternative but not certified voter list has been submitted “. “If the Vice President had implemented Professor Eastman’s proposal, he would probably have lost in court,” Jacob concluded. “In a best-case scenario in which the courts have refused to get involved, the Vice President would probably be in a one-on-one controversy against both houses of Congress, as well as most or all of the current state legislatures, without a neutral arbiter available for to break the impasse “. Pence’s final decision to go against Trump and continue with the certification of votes led to tensions between the two and made the then vice president the target in the midst of the violent uprising on January 6, where many Trump supporters expressed anger against Pence for refusing to overturn the election results. Pence has since reiterated that he has no authority to do so. “President Trump is wrong. “I had no right to overturn the election,” the former vice president said earlier this year. “The presidency belongs to the American people and to the American people alone. “Honestly, there is almost no idea more anti-American than the idea that any person could elect the American president.” The release of Jacob’s note to Pence comes just days after the first of a series of public hearings by the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. At Thursday’s hearing, the commission presented the context of its case, arguing that Trump was at the center of an effort to stay in power that led immediately to the Jan. 6 uprising. Jacob, who met with the House panel in February, is expected to testify at an upcoming hearing. In his memo to Pence, Jacob noted that Eastman himself acknowledged that his proposal would violate the 1887 Election Count, and clarified several provisions of the law that Pence would violate if he kept the certification as Eastman urged. . Jacob also said Eastman’s advice was contradicted by an 1877 Electoral Commission ruling made by a Supreme Court justice. In that ruling, Republican Supreme Court Justice Joseph Bradley wrote of the vice president: “He has no authority to conduct an inquiry outside the joint meeting of the two Houses.” 31 members of a white nationalist group arrested near Idaho’s Pride event DNC rules out multiple states from early qualifiers: reports Jacob further noted that the proposal was in “intense tension” with a federal district court ruling issued the previous day. During the attack on the Capitol, Jacob emailed Eastman. “And thanks to your bullshit, we are under siege,” he wrote.
