• chellewalker@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    “Now hold on there; it doesn’t say what year that inauguration needs to happen.” -exerpt from Supreme Court hearing on F-ck v. You.

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      4 months ago

      Sure… So Biden and Harris keep hold of the office or Biden steps down and Harris would have to choose her VP. Which I assume she would choose her running mate. That doesn’t really sound like a good plan for the slow learners either

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        “Constitution doesn’t say that we can’t appoint Trump as dictator while we figure it out” - Uncle Thomas

        Oh whom am I kidding, dude doesn’t even know how to say a sentence with more than five words.

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          The courts can’t make rules, they can’t just perceive what was there. So it’s either election validated, or not validated yet, meaning the office wouldn’t hand over power. Congress would have to write an amendment for that to happen (2/3rds vote, which neither party holds)

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            4 months ago

            SCOTUS ruled on a case of something that didn’t even happen, just a “what if”. They absolutely can make shit up and rule on hypotheticals.

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              4 months ago

              Which rule did they make that was not written by Congress and misinterpreted. You are fishing far further than the supreme Court to find that I fear and I want them held to charges.

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      4 months ago

      Except it specifies ‘of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified’, which pretty much says its the January after the election. If not, they can just make Biden president for longer lol.