www.archives.gov
It doesn't matter- in terms of who will be in office come January- what Trump thinks.
But but I though trump was going to use martial law too overturn the election LMFAO.
If Pence or the GOP senators don't participate in the count, then Biden hasn't actually been formally approved as the next president. Trump's term still ends on the 20th, but if you then have the attorney general issue an opinion that the current line of succesion is unconstitutional because the speaker and president pro temp are not "officers of the US"... How does president Pompeo sound?
Whatever hack Trump appoints as the new AG cannot override the 25th Amendment. It will be President Pelosi at the worst possible case.
The line of succession is set by a regular law. And he would be arguing that that law violates Article 2 of the constitution, interpeting it as requiring the acting president to be a cabinet member. And until the courts say otherwise, the Department of Justice, and thus all of law enforcement, would be bound by that.
No, they'd be bound by the law as written unless the Supreme Court grants them the ability to do so while they review the case.
The only problem with this fan fiction is that Pompeo's term ends with Trump's on the 20th. No member of Trump's admin, including the AG, will be in a position to say anything about who will be president beginning at noon that day. So unless we're doing civil war 2 Trump and co. are welcome to fuck around and find out.
I think it was a thought experiment by one of the guys at Lawfare on what would be the maximum level of Trump admin fuckery. Seems a lot of people here disagree, so I will defer to their judgment.
That's not how it works.
lmao, a bunch of natsec lawyer who defended evil shit who now positioned themselves as legal resistance experts
www.cnn.com
CNN posting shit like this terrifies me as a chronic worrier
House conservatives strategize with Trump and Pence in push to challenge Biden's win
Alabama GOP Rep. Mo Brooks and fellow House conservatives met privately on Monday with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence as the lawmakers prepared to mount a long-shot bid in January to overturn the Electoral College results that made Joe Biden the official winner of the election.
This would never happen though right? I mean the house and senate would have to vote in order to possibly change it but the house being dem controlled would stop it?
