That “Little Secret” Between Trump and Johnson? Here’s What It Could Mean.
That “Little Secret” Between Trump and Johnson? Here’s What It Could Mean.
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That “Little Secret” Between Trump and Johnson? Here’s What It Could Mean.
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A really overthought “solution” that could’ve only come from a room of politicians. I mean, your made-up “equity election” didn’t work, so you have another set of elected officials further remove selection of this powerful, even then, position from the people instead of just failing back to the popular count. Fucking lawyers.
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Absolutely horrifying. And very, very plausible.
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The new House isn’t sworn in until January 3... By the time we get to January 6, the electors are supposed to have voted. December 11 is the deadline for appointing electors, December 25 the deadline for voting. Mike Johnson will still be in charge on both of those days.
Since we're not playing by the rules anymore, could the new house speaker (assuming Democratic majority) just extend/accept things on Jan 3rd?
Since we'll know that sooner they would just need to signal that they intend to accept late appointments and voting.
I suppose that too would go to the Supreme Court, but it seems worth trying.
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JFC this may be the most depressing thing I’ve ever read.
I feel similarly. The both sidesers won't care though. They'll just mumble something about genocide so they can pretend there's no difference in the parties
The genocide argument goes away in 2 days, so we have that to look forward to.
Ah yes blame the people that won't submit to tribalism and want to hold our politicians to a higher standard than "slightly less worse than the other guy" and feel smug in the knowledge that the people you're defending, who have allowed all this to happen under their watch, have brought us to the point where our votes are completely meaningless. Good job, buddy. You got what you wanted.