{"id":45857,"date":"2021-01-02T03:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45857"},"modified":"2021-01-02T03:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:22:57","slug":"yea-the-founders-got-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45857","title":{"rendered":"Yea &#8230; the founders got it right!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=contestedelection%20%23LouieGohmert%20%23POTUS%20%23MikePence&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gohmert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39583\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gohmert-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gohmert-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/gohmert.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We can thank the nation&#8217;s founders tonight for a federal judicial ruling that puts an end to a loony lawsuit filed by a loony member of Congress, Rep. Louie Gohmert, an East Texas Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Gohmert wanted Vice President Mike Pence to preside over a joint session of Congress next week &#8230; and then take it upon himself to throw out the Electoral College certification that Joe Biden was elected president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>What did the founders get right? They created an independent federal judiciary! Tonight, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle tossed Gohmert&#8217;s lawsuit into the trash barrel.<\/p>\n<p>I should say right here that Judge Kernodle, of Texas, is a Trump appointee. Yep, the man who would benefit directly from Gohmert&#8217;s idiocy selected this jurist, who then followed his oath of office directly and cleanly. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/532344-judge-dismisses-gohmerts-election-suit-against-pence\">As The Hill<\/a> reported: <em>The judge found that Gohmert suffered no legally recognizable injury.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All hail, judicial independence!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=contestedelection%20%23LouieGohmert%20%23POTUS%20%23MikePence&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com We can thank the nation&#8217;s founders tonight for a federal judicial ruling that puts an end to a loony lawsuit filed by a loony member of Congress, Rep. Louie Gohmert, an East Texas Republican. 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