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Budi

(15,325 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 12:38 AM Jul 2020

ACLU: "Only Congress can reschedule Election Day. It's in the Constitution."




No matter what Trump has NO power to change the election.
*The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has majorly disrupted the 2020 election.

*At a July 28 hearing before the House of Representatives, Attorney General Bill Barr said he "hadn't looked into" whether a president can singlehandedly delay a presidential election.
(Barr knows damn well the answer to the question. He knows ever loophole & line he can exploit in the US Constitution)

*Trump cannot cancel or postpone the November 3 general election by executive order, under the parameters of a national emergency or disaster declaration, or even if he declared martial law.

*And in an extreme scenario where the electoral college does not vote, Trump's term would still expire at noon on January 20, 2021, meaning control of the presidency would go down the line of succession.


https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cant-cancel-or-postpone-the-november-election-over-coronavirus-2020-3?amp&__twitter_impression=true
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ACLU: "Only Congress can reschedule Election Day. It's in the Constitution." (Original Post) Budi Jul 2020 OP
Thank Goodness we had the 2018 Blue Wave! That Cha Jul 2020 #1
Thank you thank you Budi, and the ACLU...voices of sanity! Thekaspervote Jul 2020 #2

Cha

(298,021 posts)
1. Thank Goodness we had the 2018 Blue Wave! That
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 12:48 AM
Jul 2020

means the House of Representatives, right? TY.

Of course barr would LIE.

Thekaspervote

(32,820 posts)
2. Thank you thank you Budi, and the ACLU...voices of sanity!
Thu Jul 30, 2020, 01:54 AM
Jul 2020

I have been screaming this for weeks!!

Things are bad enough without the frequent scare tactics and comments about dotard canceling the election

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