U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-O.H.) is turning heads after telling ABC News he would have violated the Constitution on Jan. 6, 2021.
The 2020 election conspiracies persist through the right wing, and Vance told George Stephanopoulos he would not have certified the 2020 election if he was the vice president when Mike Pence was.
"If I had been V.P. I would've told the states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and so many others that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the US Congress should've fought over it from there," he said.
Respected constitutional legal scholars explain that the vice presidential role is ceremonial, doing nothing more than counting the votes from the Electoral College.
Harvard Law School professor emeritus of constitutional law, Laurence Tribe, told U.S.A. Today that the V.P. "in no way demonstrate[s] that the vice president has more than a largely ceremonial role to play in that capacity.”
The outlet's fact-check of Trump's claims Pence could have intervened was "false." In fact, so does the Associated Press, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, Newsweek, and many others.
Responding to the video uploaded to the social media site "X," users flagged that Vance took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Doing that and then refusing to uphold the Constitution, users said, was an "insurrection."
"J.D. Vance is a traitorous pile of owl droppings," ex-Chicago Tribune editor Mark Jacob said.
"J.D. Vance is a f--king disgrace," Charles Campisi said flatly.
Matthew O'Brien explained Vance's claim "I would’ve told the states to send me multiple slates of electors," isn't legal.
"For clarity: the Vice President has exactly zero authority or right to tell the states that they need to send multiple slates of electors. Zero. To do so is an act of insurrection," he posted.
There is currently a case before the U.S. Supreme Court about whether Trump's role in the insurrection prevents him from holding office again in the future. The 14th Amendment has already been applied to a local officer in New Mexico.
