Editorial: Mike Pence: Your loyalty should be to the Constitution, not Trump
Servility is an occupational hazard for any vice president, but Mike Pence has been especially obsequious in service to President Trump. But will Pence's sycophancy stretch to joining in Trump's effort to overturn the results of the election they lost to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris?
Some die-hard Trump supporters think so and are hoping that Pence will somehow throw the election when — in his capacity as president of the Senate — he presides over a joint session of Congress on Wednesday at which electoral votes are counted and at which the vice president is supposed to declare the winners.
If Pence is a patriot with even a modicum of respect for our constitutional norms, he will disavow any such spoiler role — and join other Republicans, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in acknowledging that Biden is the next president. Trump's self-serving campaign to sow doubt about the integrity of the election has inflicted enough damage already. Participation by Pence in a last-minute effort in Congress to overturn the results, even if unsuccessful, would be even more corrosive to democracy.
The notion that Pence can be Trump’s savior is rooted in a perverse misreading of the Constitution. The vice president’s role on Wednesday is essentially ceremonial; he has no authority on his own to throw out electoral votes cast for Biden.
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