Former Vice President Mike Pence spoke to a meeting of the Federalist Society today. Founded in 1982, the Federalist Society for law and public policy is a group of attorneys and law clerks who are conservatives and libertarians dedicated to reforming the current legal order. They are committed to the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. The Society seeks to promote awareness of these principles and to further their application through its activities.
The former vice president said, "It is true that former president Donald Trump said I had the power to overturn the 2020 presidential election. I did not have that power."
The fact is Donald Trump did not think Mike Pence had that power either. Trump wanted the election overturned and he would have used any person, any evil plan, any action he could drag up from the bowels of hell to stay in power another four years.
While Pence has admitted he sought others for guidance on whether such power was in his grasp, his call to former Vice President Dan Quayle resolved it. He must have been told by others as well that he had no such powers. The White House is an ant hill of attorneys that could have advised him. Sadly, however, most of them would have advised him to give it a try and they would sort the legal aspects out later.
We are living in the second-most hostile and gut-wrenching time in our nation's history. Only the Civil War horror would top the past five years, concluding with election fraud, an insurrection on our Capitol, and a coup on our Capitol. We only pray that it is at an end!
As for Mike Pence, he has a thirst to run for president in 2024, and he is trying to rebuild a reputation. . . even if it infuriates his old boss.
He was silent as a church mouse during the past five years. Does he have a reputation left to save?
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