Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert reacted to the dismissal of his lawsuit against Vice President Mike Pence by telling an interviewer that the decision sends the message that people must “go to the streets” and be “violent” in order to to have their grievances about President Donald Trump’s Electoral College defeat addressed.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle dismissed Gohemert’s suit against Pence — which seeks to force Pence to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory — citing a lack of standing.
Gohmert did not take the news well, telling Newsmax anchor Emerald Robinson that the ruling is forcing people to take violent action.
“With regard to the standing issue, if a member of Congress who is going to object to electors that were fraudulently sit there, and a state has sent two sets, and I don’t have standing, to go to court and say the electors act, it has got an unconstitutional provision, if I don’t have standing to do that, nobody does,” Gohmert told Robinson.
(h/t Mediaite)