BREAKING: AZGOP Files 3rd Generation Kraken LAWSUIT AGAINST VP Mike Pence (In Texas) To Try To Derail Electoral College Count On Jan. 6 (READ "Grandson of Kraken" Complaint)

(UPDATE, 1:10pm: Have added the plaintiffs' request for emergency injunctive relief, along with their proposed order.)

The Arizona GOP joined with Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert to file an emergency lawsuit yesterday against Vice President Mike Pence, in an attempt to derail the ceremonial nature of the January 6th counting of the Electoral College votes finding that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris defeated Donald Trump and (you guessed it) Mike Pence.

The suit was filed in federal court in Texas, and AZGOP Communications Director Zachery Henry confirms to Arizona's Law that it is an official effort by the Arizona Republican Party. In addition to Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband, Michael, the other nine members of Arizona's GOP slate of electors and Rep. Gohmert are plaintiffs. They are represented by some of the same national attorneys who represented AZGOP (and, others) in previous unsuccessful suits around the nation alleging widespread fraud. None of those cases have been successful. (Those attorneys are Howard Kleinhendler (NY), Julia Haller (DC), William Lewis Sessions (TX) and Lawrence Joseph (DC). The first two represented Arizona GOP previously, and Haller was in the Trump Administration until recently.)

The new action asks the court to find that the federal Electoral Count Act is unconstitutional and that current VP Pence should be able to accept Arizona's Republican slate of electors rather than the Democratic slate that was certified as the winners of Arizona's November 3 election by 10,457 votes.

In support, the Complaint attaches a Joint Resolution signed by 20 of Arizona's 90 State lawmakers claiming fraud and requesting that the Trump/Pence electors be accepted from Arizona or that no Arizona Presidential votes be counted until an audit is completed. The Complaint claims that the "massive multi-state electoral fraud" also swung results against Trump/Pence in at least four other swing states.

The case has been assigned to Judge Jeremy Kernodle, a judge recently nominated by President Trump.

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