I don’t see any legal way such a strategy can be stopped, because it’s all based on “legal” technicalities.
I'm not a scholar in any of this, but I can't imagine the President is powerless to halt such a scheme. I've been given to understand that the Office has broad powers under certain invocations. Even if they manage to get everything rolling in just the right way, there's still a period of time between when the elections happen and when the next president is sworn in.
I cannot believe our government would sit idly by and let this cockamamie scheme just unfold and go, "Damn, I guess it's technically legal." And if they do, then they obviously wanted it to happen.
I wish it was clear-cut. It sucks that it's in this "technically legal" gray area to laypeople like us and the author. I would live to read a constitutional scholar's, legal scholar's, or a lawyer's take on it.
I wasn’t planning on any kind of frenzy, just thought it was an interesting and alarming read.
And you are aware that the article presents a convincing roadmap how Trump could try to seize power even if he loses the election, yes?
(Also I agree on voting for Biden being a critical way to help things the best we can. Why are you holding your nose though? He’s done a lot. I know a big list of pedestrian accomplishments including big stuff like student loan relief and marijuana clemency and new police regulation and other important things isn’t as quippy as shrieking “GENOCIDE JOE GENOCIDE JOE” like some mirror-image Donald Trump, as if everything Netanyahu does is something Biden’s happy about and thank god there’s all these Gazans dying because that’s exactly what he wanted. To me Biden is an above-average Democrat whose main problem is he’s just super old.)
I mean, he's done a lot. Some of that is great, some of that is materially aiding in genocide. You don't have to parody it with caps.
Both of those things are true. The good and the bad, and the one doesn't erase the other. I think it's pretty clear that a Trump presidency is a lot worse and a lot more dangerous for every human being on the planet who isn't Vladmir Putin. But that doesn't take the rest of the shit off of our plate.
We do need to get Biden into office, but we also need to be honest about what's wrong if we ever have any hope of even beginning to make it better.
