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’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.
Yeah. I actually tend to agree with you on this. On the other hand they did it in 2000 and it worked fine.
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.
That sounds like exactly the kind of thing the Democrats love to do.
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