There's no point repeating that debate here. I still say that, if Pence did what the right-wing Trumpers wanted him to do, he would have been voted down in Congress and there might have been an emergency lawsuit filed that he would have lost.

Well, you did repeat it :)

Even if those two things did in fact transpire, which I dispute, it's irrelevant. You have to do what's right regardless of the circumstances. There was a lot of controversy and uncertainty over the counting and the most straightforward and least controversial way of dealing with it all would be to ask the relevant states to review their results. Even if the states confirmed their respective results, the Senate president has done no harm and is seen to have added transparency to the process. It's a no-lose situation. Bear in mind that while the states were reviewing their results, the nation would have been watching. That's a lot of transparency right there. The public would make up their own minds based on what they saw, so even in the hypothetical situation where the result was corrupt and the confirmation of the result was corrupt, there would be a public benefit.

And don't forget, the Congress quickly afterward passed legislation to prevent the Senate president from in future doing what I and others advocate, which is the surest proof that Pence could in fact legally have done what we suggest.