We held elections during WWII. We held elections during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, after 9/11. I think the only time we didn’t have national elections was during the Civil War.is there any explanation for this other than the administration is actively courting a terrorist attack as a pretext to put boots on the ground in Iran and/or declare a national emergency in order go try to “cancel” the midterms? https://t.co/SlLBrmpUWH
— Peter Twinklage (@PeterTwinklage) March 7, 2026
Trump may (emphasis on “may”) imagine he’ll suspend the election. He’ll find out, again, the limits of his power.
National security is not a reason to suspend elections. National security is a reason we have elections.
And by the way, there is no provision in Article. I, sec. 4, cl. 1, that gives the POTUS the power to suspend Congressional elections. Period.
Or it could be China in 2020; in the study, with the lead pipe:
The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) March 7, 2026
The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. https://t.co/U5pJIco7Vn pic.twitter.com/uuFwHragI4
The premise that this “will unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting” is total bullshit.
As we used to say: “The stupid, it burns.”
It was only during the Vietnam war that we didn't have elections under Jim Crow or its gradual reenactment by the Court gutting the Voting Rights act and nullifying elections, Bush v Gore. And now the Roberts Court is the most repeatedly Republican-fascist partisan court in the modern period. Even the late Federalist Court under Marshall couldn't do that because their party, the Federalists imploded on them.
ReplyDeleteThe Roberts Court will enable the ratfucking of the mid-terms in every way they dare to, just as many state Supreme Courts and other courts will.
Even the Roberts Court turned Trump away in 2020. And while they have fucked with redistricting in recent cases in blatant violation of their own rules against interfering with elections, I don’t see them taking on the entire Congressional election mandated by Art. I, wholesale. That would put them directly at odds not with Trump, but with the Congress and the nation. The House cannot legally function without elections every two years, and 1/3rd of the Senate would be rendered illegal, too. I defy even Alito and Thomas to square that circle on the basis of a “unitary executive” or China in 2020 ( which is just another conspiracy theory, and even the Roberts court rejected those in 2020).
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