Trying To Bottom 9/24/20

[DrStool]

I'll try to get 2:30 turn time right today. Had a hard time with it yesterday. 

[Hobbiewood]

Roll Over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news

[aussiebear]

7 hours ago, DrStool said:

Anybody see what Trump said about leaving office if Biden wins? 

Yep, scary ..  does he think he's in South America and can pull off a coup?

[aussiebear]

 

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The worst case, however, is not that Trump rejects the election outcome. The worst case is that he uses his power to prevent a decisive outcome against him. If Trump sheds all restraint, and if his Republican allies play the parts he assigns them, he could obstruct the emergence of a legally unambiguous victory for Biden in the Electoral College and then in Congress. He could prevent the formation of consensus about whether there is any outcome at all. He could seize on that un­certainty to hold on to power.

 

Trump’s state and national legal teams are already laying the groundwork for postelection maneuvers that would circumvent the results of the vote count in battleground states. Ambiguities in the Constitution and logic bombs in the Electoral Count Act make it possible to extend the dispute all the way to Inauguration Day, which would bring the nation to a precipice. The Twentieth Amendment is crystal clear that the president’s term in office “shall end” at noon on January 20, but two men could show up to be sworn in.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/