As someone noted, investigations by the DoJ are core powers of the presidency so cannot be challenged.
That's my line of logic, as well. As long as they're useful, the SCOTUS remains. The moment Trump thinks they're going to turn on him or not play ball the way he wants (or, god forbid, attempt to control him with the leash they think they have), they are suddenly liabilities.
This is exactly why the Biden Administration, if it had enough functioning brain cells remaining, would be flooding the zone with unilateral, unchecked Presidential actions that obviously show how spectacularly dumb it was to give a President such powers.
The challenge is that at this point, the current administration is soldiering on with business as usual—probably to a large degree due to the cognitive and image issues they currently are beset with. There's little chance they are going to go Macron-style and throw down the gauntlet. That was a huge risk, and could have ended badly—but the early aftermath indicates that the country got the message and voted accordingly. Kind of shocked into action. There's little chance this will happen with Biden's machine.
It won't be Rubio. His running mate needs to be not from Florida in order for Florida to have its EV's counted for both President and Vice President. That's how you could end up with President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Honestly, I don't think the idea of "Trump's puppet matters" really makes any sense. I mean, sure it isn't like he is difficult to manipulate, but, with his I am the Mafia don ego, he also isn't the sort to follow the orders of a puppet master. Nor, for that matter, can he be reliably isolated in a way that lets one particular group of "puppet matters" manipulate him. So, instead, we tend to get a somewhat random selection of outcomes from various groups of competing would-be puppet masters all filtered through the somewhat consistent set of Trump biases. It's a kind of chaos which undermines anyone attempting to be his puppet master.
What makes you think there is anyone who will enforce this rule against Trump? I expect him to pick Rubio solely because it's an open challenge to the entire election's structure.
They might flaunt the rule in that way for that reason, but they don't even have to. The ruling elites to whom that rule applies are never held to it's spirit. They are allowed to more or less instantly declare that they actually reside in some other state where the laws allow a residency claim. In Rubio's case he could claim DC residency, since he maintains a residence there and spends a lot of time there. South Dakota residency is also available, to anyone who will spend at least one day there and can claim a mailing address.
True. I remember before this all got "real" making jokes that Trump should Make Rubio give up his Florida residency solely for the purpose of being VP, and then....not giving it to him.
Trump absolutely claims to be in charge, and that any important decisions go through him. Except when it might put him in some sort of trouble, in which case, he never heard about it, he didn't have anything to do with it, and he barely knew the employee who did it.
Dick Cheney's change of residence to Wyoming was a fig-leaf to hide that he and W. Bush were from the same state. I don't see why this will not happen again.
If the Florida electors vote for two Florida residents, their vote is invalid under the constitution. It gets thrown out. Trump doesn’t want to invalidate his own election, only anyone else’s.
Did you miss the “in the early days of the U.S.” context for the plantation-owner part of my comment? Or just being cheeky?
A month ago I would have agreed with this. Now? The Constitution says what this SC says it says. I'm thinking a newly installed Congress which sits after a Trump win might not agree with this.
That would be the newly installed Senate of 2025. If Trump wins, that would almost certainly be a Republican controlled Senate. What do you think they would do?
I understand that this is basically impossible (and also would be bad because Trump as President would be bad) but that would be objectively the funniest possible outcome. Donald “convicted criminal” Trump and Kamala “a cop” Harris in the Whitehouse… he’s constantly trying to hide his phone from her because he doesn’t know how to get “meet Rudy, plan crimes” off his Google calendar.
What does that mean? I asked my gamer kids but they didn’t know either.
So, "I'm peachy for Trump" or "I'm an ass for Trump" or "I'm Trump's ass"???
Yes, he very much does. But, outside that, realistically "puppet master" implies that there is some specific person / group who hold the strings so to speak. But, of course, that isn't how manipulating Trump works, he's more like Twitch Plays Pokémon, in that pretty much anyone who walks into the room with him has as much say as anyone else. This means that there is no specific person / group holding the strings. It's far far more chaotic than a puppet master would be.
imU+1F351 -> imSo, "I'm peachy for Trump" or "I'm an ass for Trump" or "I'm Trump's ass"???
so confusing to this old man.
-> impeach
