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Date: October 16, 2024 at 08:46:12
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: No longer amateurs' Legal expert says 1 tricky law could stop DJT coup |
URL: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-election-interference-2669409151/?utm_source=superhead |
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One complicated congressional law could stand between the
White House and a former president Donald Trump armed
with legal wiles rather than Electoral College votes,
according to a new analysis.
Georgetown University Law Center professor Neal Katyal
argued Wednesday in a New York Times editorial that the
nation should brace itself for a sprawling legal battle
should Trump lose the presidential election to Vice
President Kamala Harris in November.
"The rogues are no longer amateurs," wrote Katyal. "They
have spent the last four years going pro, meticulously
devising a strategy across multiple fronts state
legislatures, Congress, executive branches and elected
judges to overturn any close election."
Katyal details several paths a defeated Trump could take
to seize executive power among them challenging ballots
in swing state lawsuits, sowing chaos on local election
boards and forcing fake electors on allies in the state
legislature before landing on the one through Congress.
His analysis comes with good and bad news introduced with
an alarming disclaimer.
"The Congress has the power to swing the entire
election," Katyal said. "The rules are complex even as
a law professor I can barely make sense of them."
Katyal's good news is a 2022 law that made it more
difficult for a Congressional member to object to a
state's vote by mandating 20 percent of members in both
houses sign on to the challenge, which must win a simple
majority in both chambers as well.
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The bad news Katyal previewed in his disclaimer.
"The rules are so complicated that they could be
stretched, wrongly, to give Congress the power to select
the next president by sustaining bogus objections," he
wrote. "Dont get me wrong, such maneuvering is totally
inconsistent with the 2022 law. But it can be attempted
and create chaos."
Katyal is not optimistic that certain members of Congress
will put correct legal interpretation above loyalty to
their party's presidential nominee.
The Republican Party, according to Katyal, can no longer
be trusted to hold democratic norms as sacrosanct.
"We have much to fear," Katyal wrote.
"It does not require much imagination to see a bad faith
actor in Congress try to squeeze through bogus election
fraud theories and plunge the country into uncertainty on
Jan. 6," Katyal wrote.
"The 20 percent voting threshold is meant to avoid
crackpot election fraud theories, but these days more
than 20 percent of Congress might be inclined to support
a crackpot theory."
The safest bet to ensure the protectors of election
integrity survive the 2024 presidential election is for
Americans to vote for the candidate who has never tried
to dismantle them, the law professor argued.
"If either candidate wins the Electoral College
decisively," he concluded, "any dispute will be rendered
academic."
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Date: October 16, 2024 at 10:02:21
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: No longer amateurs' Legal expert says 1 tricky law could stop DJT... |
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but then with his new immunity, biden could declare martial law and lock them all up...
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Date: October 16, 2024 at 11:06:01
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: No longer amateurs' Legal expert says 1 tricky law could stop... |
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