On the same day, one of Trump’s more extreme congressional allies took the vice president to court. The Texas congressman Louie Gohmert, who had attended the White House strategy session with Trump on December 21, filed a lawsuit asking a court to overrule the limits on the vice president’s role on January 6, in effect seeking to force Pence to take action to reject Biden electoral votes. It was a spurious claim and Trump’s Justice Department went to court to argue against it before a judge promptly tossed it out. But it indicated the rising pressure on Pence to claim powers he did not have to
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