Commentary Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) on Dec. 27 against Vice President Mike Pence in order to give Pence exclusive authority over the electoral votes that will be counted on Jan. 6. This federal lawsuit embodies the idea that desperate times call for desperate measures. If I felt the suit had any chance of being accepted, I would call the lawsuit dangerous, even deadly to the republic. What Gohmert is proposing, even demanding (since that’s what lawsuits like these are), is antithetical to the whole republican premise, and I’m not referencing the party. The idea of a republican form of government, which is what we are, is that we’re represented by elected officials. We 300-plus million people have dispersed our trust into 538 legislators and one executive (not to mention our state and local officials). Now, whether that trust is misplaced is another matter. The problem …