The Brennan Center is not the final authority.
"There are, however, limits and restraints upon the President in his exercise of emergency powers.
With the exception of the habeas corpus clause, the Constitution makes no allowance for the
suspension of any of its provisions during a national emergency. "
I for one will never accept any Trump “victory “ and will act accordingly.
Early morning entertainment:
Trump owes a big thank you to the US MSM for rebroadcasting his lies, propaganda, and conspiracy theories!
Journalists like Anderson Cooper (CNN) and spineless horrible Chuck Todd (MSNBC and NBC) are worthless. And then there is Wolf Blitzer in a category all to himself…go back to searching for downed commercial jets!
Exactly. He doesn’t have to accept it. I don’t have to accept it if he somehow wins. But that’s not going to change the outcome and that won’t change who is sitting in the Oval after noon on 1/20/21.
Trump is going to go on national TV late on election night and declare massive voter fraud has been reported and observed throughout the nation. Everyone agrees. Everyone has seen it. Then he’ll declare himself the winner. 45% of the populace will be heartily on board with that declaration. The Republican party, Trump, and all those millions of supporters will then essentially insist anyone that doesn’t agree is shit out off luck, the election is over and the winner has been chosen. By the time Wednesday afternoon rolls around Biden and the Democrats will be behind the 8 ball and scrambling to make the case the vote count must continue. But dozens of States with GOP Governors and GOP legislatures will already have joined Trump in declaring the election is over, and Trump has won their States.
Fast forward two weeks, and SCOTUS will call the election for Trump after some convoluted ruling about mail in ballots that makes no damn sense to anyone, but there it is, like a turd on the sidewalk. No one wants to look at it or smell it. But you can’t un-shit it.
Entirely too plausible.
That also details the unsuccessful effort of Congress to rescind the Vulgarian’s declaration of an emergency at the southern border. If this is the trajectory, we may once again be at the mercy of the McConnell Senate.
I doubt ‘public shaming’ is a possibility for this crew.
The pettiness of their self-enrichment and its cost should be widely publicized, however, so any American of conscience is ashamed to admit they ever supported this crew.
The rest we have to live with.
All happened with Reagan, just figuratively.
With Trump, its literally
So the one that bitches all the time thinks that dogs are getting ballots. How ironic.
tRump will accept it by January 20, 2021-11:59 am because his presidency ends, according to the constitution on that day. Now, Pelosi will nor be speaker as the term ends earlier but my understanding is another democratic is in the wings to assume the presidency on an interim basis.
The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Twentieth Amendment: Doctrine and Practice
There doesn’t need to be a public swearing in because that’s just a formality. tRump is out regardless and I hope they drag his sleazy ass out.
If he loses, he goes to jail, his family goes to jail, his cronies go to jail. His whole life is dealt a devastating blow from which there is no recovery. He will be dead within two years of natural causes.
We’re talking survival here, his prospects are bleak and he is running out of options. If he had an ounce of ability or competence or humanity he might have a chance. He has none of those, so he resorts to that which he does best, He cheats.
My only issue with your list is that it probably doesn’t go far enough. We lack the cruelty and sociopathic tendencies to completely predict him. When you get Barr, John Yoo, Stephen Miller, Pompeo, Kushner, etc. combining forces with their sadistic figurehead, something far worse and more destructive than we imagine is going to result.
Listen to Trump below:
pass
On this particular site, watch out for people who aim to enervate, discourage and make far more gloomy than this deserves.
My very first reaction on seeing this story was, in fact, a feeling that Trump is manifestly frightened and apprehensive.
He has the toys of the Bully Pulpit and much more. But he is cowardly and too lazy to game this in a way that it would have any real meaning.
Donny-Boy is gonna get his ass whupped so bad that he’s going to hide in the White House bunker 'til January 20th. And then sneak out the back door.
Those of us who deal with contract law know full well the absolute and binding meaning of “shall”.
Nope. As of noon on January 21st, if no one has been elected president, the speaker takes over.
Marches haven’t accomplished much of anything since the Civil Rights demonstrations of the 1960s.
