If President Pelosi were to nominate a new Vice President, as Richard Nixon did when he nominated Gerald Ford after Spiro Agnew resigned, who would cause Mitch McConnell’s head to explode fastest? Elizabeth Warren? Hillary Clinton? A member of The Squad?
Actually only three members of the Squad are eligible; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is too young. At least I assume the minimum age requirement in the Constitution still applies even if you’re appointed.
I would love to see a picture of Pence’s face from the moment he first heard that news.
That’s true, I stand corrected. Usually the oath of office is administered by the Chief Justice, but it has been administered by others in the past often after the death of the sitting President. [Notary public John Calvin Coolidge Sr. even administered the oath to his son John Calvin Coolidge Jr. in 1923.]
Unless before January 20th there is an executive order declaring the election results invalid due to foreign meddling and voter fraud, and a supreme court decision upholding the validity of such an executive order.
Conversely, having a former president claiming he is still the rightful president and the victim of a coup, and 27% of the public agreeing, would be a mess.
It takes months to get on the Supreme Court docket. The new president would be sworn in and doing business long before that happened.
And in this case, said outgoing president has pissed off the leaders of both the military and intelligence services, over and over. If he depends on them to back him up, that will be fun to watch.
It would certainly be a real test of the assertion that the value of the 2A is to challenge an “oppressing regime.”
My first thought was, “Wasn’t Bush vs. Gore a case that was decided quicker than that?”
My second thought was, “No, that one felt like it took full years of life.”
I think you’re spot-on, but you’re also far too reasonable to be on the same page as Trump and Giuliani.
I have a hunch they’re getting ready to Quixotically privately sue to stop Congress from considering presidential impeachment (another impossible tactic I never thought I’d ever see floated as a viable option outside of an opium hallucination), so I’m not totally sure how it actually would play out with such bad faith actors, though I think the outcome is as you’ve said.
IF the Republicans decide that the Good Ship Trump is going down, and that he will not be their 2020 candidate after all, I like them tapping Romney as their last-ditch-consensus-candidate.
If you want the story to reach operatic levels of profundity and head-reeling, I think you’ve really got to go with Lindsay Graham stepping in at the last minute to scoop the presidential nomination. That would tie a nice big bow on everything that’s happened in the last couple decades, and produce some nice rewritten textbooks on Long-Term Political Strategy.
Let’s see how this is different in the U.S…the GOP controls the board and executives of accounting firms that conduct independent reviews of financial statements, undermines the IRS so an audit is unlikely, stacks the courts to ensure any supporters caught will get a slap on the wrist penalty, and maintains a network that will help an executive who commits fraud to fail upwards and land another job if he gets fired.
This is why the average decent person is stunned at the ethics violations committed by members of the current administration. When caught, they lie, plead ignorance of the rules, make it clear they aren’t worried about consequences, and (in cases of excessive spending) they drag their feet when it comes to repayment. Whatever they are riding is tame, and it wears a muzzle so there’s no risk of being bitten.
It’s always the same BS excuse you hear from any corporate Ponzi schemer who gets caught: “Wahhh, it got away from me. What else could I do?” There’s a reason the GOP finds such an affinity with them.
I seem to remember Trump has expressed admiration for some of the nicknames leaders of North Korea have held. According to some quick Wikipedia work Kim Il-sung was Great Leader, Kim Jong-il was Dear Leader, and Kim Jong-un is Dear Respected. So let’s give him a North Korea-style nickname. Like the first two leaders of NK, his nickname includes the word Leader which should please him until he hears the full nickname.
It’s not an H-name, but how does Donald “Fake Leader” Trump strike you? Or if you want to tie him closer to Fox News, “Faux Leader” has a similar connotation.
He’s not competent enough to lead a horse to water. He can make it drink, but only grain alcohol.
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