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You can’t get elected if you don’t count the votes. That requires a joint session of congress. If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come int
by Spooky23 1y ago
You can’t get elected if you don’t count the votes. That requires a joint session of congress. If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come into session there’s no clear rule what happens.
Any number of emergent events may create an emergency preventing the congress from gathering. The congress are collaborators and the Supreme Court is compromised.
- UltraSane 1y agoThat would trigger a real civil war.
- testing22321 1y agoWhich would further delay any chance of a transition of power. More and more it looks like that is what he wants.
- UltraSane 1y agoIt would trigger his removal.
- testing22321 1y agoHow?
- zzrrt 1y agoTrump was giddy at that Zelenskiy meeting a few months ago, when he heard elections were suspended in Ukraine due to the war. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bvUBtdHw3g4 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bvUBtdHw3g4 Said something like "So, if in 3.5 years, we are in a war... no more elections. Oh, that's good."
- evan_ 1y ago> If due to an unprecedented emergency the congress cannot come into session there’s no clear rule what happens. For instance if hundreds of people are rioting and breaking into the capitol building. That's what they were trying to do on Jan 6.
- chippiewill 1y agoIf that happens then Trump doesn't get to stay president, the 20th amendment means his term ends regardless.
- heavyset_go 1y agoThe 5th Amendment means everyone has the right to due process, but it means nothing if the government refuses to adhere to it. We're currently seeing people being denied due process as a matter of federal policy all over the US.
- anigbrowl 1y agoYeah, and who's going to force the issue? The minute someone kicks over a trashcan it'll be declared as the latest national emergency and the loyal forces of law and order will be told to terminate whiny radicals in sight. Would you have believed anyone who told you five years ago that there would be masked federal cops snatching people off the street in broad daylight by 2025?
- DocTomoe 1y agoI was under the impression that the 20th amendment would still terminate his term on January 20th, noon. In the absence of an elected president, the line of succession as defined in the Presidential Succession Act would kick in, meaning you got a Speaker of the House becoming president (if one exists), and if not, the Senate's president pro tempore. Not entirely sure where you see murky and undefined situations...