Vice President Mike Pence would not confirm he is behind a plan that would see him throw out electors from states that went for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, lawyers said late Monday. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and a host of others, including Republican electors in Arizona, filed a lawsuit against Pence this week, asking a court to give Pence “exclusive authority” to decide which Electoral College votes should be counted during the upcoming joint session of Congress. In a new filing asking for an accelerated schedule in the case, plaintiffs said that before the lawsuit was filed their counsel presented a written statement summarizing their arguments by email to Pence’s office. “Plaintiffs’ counsel conferred via telephone with the Counsel to the Vice President and provided an as-filed copy of the Complaint and an unsigned final copy of Plaintiffs Motion via email,” the new filing states. “In the teleconference, Plaintiffs’ counsel …