Friday, April 24, 2026

“The Idea… Is Lunacy

I really, really want to know the mechanism for any of this.

“Find a way to run for a second [third?] term?” How? Look under a rock? Sign an executive order? Get the GOP in all 50 states to allow him on the ballot? The man is polling at 30%. What looked like an attempt to appease Sen. Tillis and get his nominee on the Fed Board fell flat when his press secretary insisted the Fed investigation continues. What, he’s suddenly going to become sensible between now and 2028, and appeal to voters in ways he couldn’t in 2020? If he can get on the ballot. Which he can’t.

“Cancel the election”? Again: the constitutional mechanism for that is? I’d understood the argument was federal elections were conducted by the states.  Art. I, sec. 4, U.S. constitution, right? How does Trump cancel the state elections? Executive order? What is the clause in Section II giving the POTUS that authority?

Please show your work.

“…pass it off to Don, Jr.”? What, under primogeniture?

This is a farce.

Trump didn’t give it up last time. He incited a riot, when 60 some odd lawsuits failed and Pence refused to play his part in the scheme and Trump’s legal brain trust thought they could throw the certification to the ghost of Scalia.

None of that was destined to work, in other words. And it was still a damned sight more sensible than this 👆nonsense.
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  1. The Thought Criminal3:10 AM

    I'm old enough to remember when the MS-NBC and even some academic Constitutional lawyers were saying there was no way the Supreme Court would accept John Sauer's claims on presidential immunity in Trump v USA. That the idea that they would overturn the two in the majority in the lower court who said the idea was blatantly "unconstitutional." So I never take anything as beyond the realm of outrageous invention as done by that most corrupt of all courts and the most corrupt branch of the government. Even when Coney B and Roberts land on the right side in a 5-4, I figure they're laying the ground for a future ratfucking in a future and more consequential case.

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  2. Rmj6:55 AM

    Presidential immunity, as they wrote it, is actually rather inchoate and dependent on circumstances. It waits for another prosecution of an ex-president (which, yes, we may get sooner than the idiots expected). Meaning they figured the consequences were far away (even if Trump hadn’t been re-elected and the prosecution continued with a new Administration). Besides, criminal liability is inchoate in “white collar” crimes. It didn’t really bother the electorate, did it?

    But tell 50 states the 22nd doesn’t mean what it plainly says? I don’t think the Sinister Six want that responsibility. Then, if Trump is not elected, they’re under the national microscope. 🔬 And Congress really does have a lot of power over the Court, which they might decide to exercise.

    They’ve saved Trump enough, even by their bizarre standards.

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