in the week before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack that claimed then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to refuse to count presidential electors from states that delivered Joe Biden the White House.
In a second, previously unreported memo dated Jan. 5, Ellis made a more technical legal argument that she delivered to Jay Sekulow, one of Trump's outside lawyers. Sekulow represented Trump during his first impeachment and in a series of legal battles during his administration, but he had minimal involvement in Trump’s election litigation. The exception was anIn the Jan.
In an interview Friday, Sekulow said he continues to believe that Pence had no lawful authority to block any of Biden’s electors, but he suggested Ellis was entitled to her view.Ellis’ memo to Sekulow may have been part of a bid to persuade him to reverse his position. She writes that Pence’s role was not a “ministerial function” — the same phrase Sekulow had used that day.
Ellis worked closely with Giuliani in the aftermath of the 2020 election, traveling to multiple states to push Republican legislators in those locations to attempt to intervene before their presidential ballots could be certified. She later sought to convince state lawmakers to hold emergency sessions and attempt to submit alternate slates of Trump electors to Congress in advance of Jan. 6.
Under some versions of the strategy, the legislatures in states whose results Trump was hoping to overturn would be given 10 days to revisit their election results and determine whether to reverse them.
What s piece of work JennaEllisEsq is. She's chased the ambulance bleeding money.
blakehounshell Denial is not a river in Egypt...
Jenna Ellis makes the point that she did not say 'overturn' in her advisory memos for overturning the presidential election.
I’ve noticed that virtually every single lawyer outside/independent of Trump’s circle categorically disagrees with the lawyers’ takes that are in his circle.
Yawn...
Where is your hit piece on LYING Lin Wood?
Perpetrated frauds on the election boards and everything else she's involved with
Lol check out Jenna's Twitter bio - 'America's Lawyer'
She seems to be handling it poorly. Happy holidays Jenna!
Jenna is about to go through some shit and I'm here for all of it.
Trump planned the insurrection. Think about it if pence wasn’t going to throw out the electoral votes, trump could at least force pence to flee the capital from the mob. Thus with no VP the EV’s are not certified and Biden is not president. Pence refuse to leave tho
Jenna Ellis needs to be disbarred.
What if Trump had succeeded?
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Prosecute Jenna Ellis!
If by “far-fetched” you mean illegal and unconstitutional, yes
you call it a legal argument, I call it a confession
She got Covid from Rudy’s fart
Jenna blocked me 🤣 Jenna is going to be charged Jail time! Prison time!
Legal SNITCHES. 'LAWYERS SUCK'
Trump and his circle are all irresponsible penny chasers, even at the heavy cost of divisiveness and eroding faith in the Constitution and system of governance.
Many reports of the attempted coup, zero accountability.
It’s an attempted coup! Call it by name.
Well, not sure anyone ever accused Jenna of being the sharpest tool in the shed.
She had no idea what she was talking about.
“Disputed” legal theories? It’s a coup
Does Trump still stand by this 2016 remark? 'The mob takes the Fifth Amendment. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- Donald Trump
Lawyers can be induced to say anything for money.
She needs to be disbarred. People like her are turning the profession into a complete joke. Maybe thats her entire plan.
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