• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      He’s going to say his people have to run blue states, and if they don’t go along with it he’ll try to say their elections don’t count.

      Then have congress just not come into new session to seat anyone.

      Even if the article didn’t explicitly talk about it it’s weird how many people really can’t see that coming and legitimately think he’ll start following both letter and spirit of the law.

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        14 hours ago

        Not saying that he won’t try, but the president has no (constitutional) say in the sitting of congress.

        I looked it up and in Powell vs McCormack (1969), the Supreme Court ruled that the speaker of the house has no authority to deny a representative sent by their respective state. So, unless the current Supreme Court decides to overturn that precedent, it would require a 2/3 majority vote of the newly-seated house to expel someone, assuming I’ve understood correctly (which is questionable).

        Tl;dr: I think even this couldn’t necessarily prevent folks who win in November from serving.

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          Did you used to work for the Justice Department, by chance?

          “Guys, it turns out that molesting and raping children is indeed illegal for an American citizen. I think we might be able to prosecute Trump, and a whole lot of other people, based on the Epstein files.”

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          11 hours ago

          Not saying that he won’t try, but the president has no (constitutional) say in the sitting of congress.

          Buddy…

          You don’t think John Thune and Mike Johnson wouldn’t listen to trump if he says to not call the new Congress into session?

          How the fuck can someone be so authentically naivie in 2026, to think the mastermind conspiracy of that is just too far fetched?

          Like, you might as well have said:

          Of course billionaires pay taxes, it’s the law

          Tl;dr: I think even this couldn’t necessarily prevent folks who win in November from serving

          I legit can’t tell if that’s a typo or brainrot. But you still don’t understand any of this

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          14 hours ago

          As right wing as the Supreme Court is now, there’s no way they allow this. They’ve already shot down less overt shit he’s wanted.

          Even if they do though, I don’t think the Democratic States would comply regardless of a SC decision saying so. It is so clearly unconstitutional that I think they would outright refuse that interpretation.