uncertain to support standing". Gohmert failed to make a case for how he was injured "as an individual", Kernodle said. As for the other plaintiffs, Kernodle ruled that they lacked standing because the injury they alleged was "not fairly traceable" to Pence. Gohmert appealed the district court's ruling that day. He also reacted to the dismissal by declaring that with "no remedy" provided, "in effect the ruling would be that you gotta go to the streets and be as violent as Antifa and BLM." On January 2, a three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit speedily and tersely rejected Gohmert's appeal; they "affirm the judgment" of the district court, "essentially for the reasons stated by the district court". The judges who presided over the appeal were Andy Oldham (appointed by Trump), Patrick Higginbotham and Jerry Edwin Smith (both appointed by Ronald Reagan). Gohmert then appealed to the Supreme Court, which on January 7 also tersely rejected his petition as "denied". "Dumbest guy in congress" In May 2021, Gohmert made a rambling speech in which he touched on several issues, including claiming he had very high SAT scores, and added, "I’m sure that shocks people that think I’m the dumbest guy in Congress", and then blamed the United States Department of Education for the trend of lower SAT scores. The speech itself was mocked for inaccurate statements.<ref>Spocchia, Gino, Gohmert admits people think he's 'the dumbest guy in Congress' in speech immediately mocked for its stupidity The Independent via Yahoo News May 21, 2021</ref> Lincoln Project founder Steve Schmidt had previously called Gohmert "America's craziest and dumbest congressman." In June 2021, during a House hearing, Gohmert asked a senior official with the United States Forest Service whether their agency or the Bureau of Land Management was capable of altering the orbit of the earth's moon, or the earth's orbit around the sun, as part of efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change.Lawmaker suggests changing moon's orbit to fight climate change Don Lemon Tonight, CNN Scientific American'' pointed out the practical and theoretical problems involved in Gohmert's proposal. January 2021 storming of the Capitol According to a U.S. Capitol Police intelligence assessment, during a Newsmax interview on January 1, 2021, "Gohmert claimed that letting the will of the voters stand would 'mean the end of our republic, the end of the experiment in self-government'" and "then