Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 days ago‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a Warwww.mediaite.comexternal-linkmessage-square244linkfedilinkarrow-up1852arrow-down18
arrow-up1844arrow-down1external-link‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a Warwww.mediaite.comRedditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 days agomessage-square244linkfedilink
minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·10 days agoWe didn’t cancel elections during the Civil War.
minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·10 days ago“Missed opportunity.” - Trump, probably.
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·10 days agoWere they cancelled during WW2
minus-squareAugustWest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·10 days agoNo. Elections are constitutionally required and have never been postponed. The president has no constitutional authority to postpone one.
minus-squareThat Weird Vegan@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 days agoThe US constitution is toilet paper to the republicans.
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 days agoOh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoOh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts
minus-squareCircaV@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoOh good thing the US has a president that totally respects the constitution then. Phew - got me worried there for a second.
We didn’t cancel elections during the Civil War.
“Missed opportunity.” - Trump, probably.
Were they cancelled during WW2
No. Elections are constitutionally required and have never been postponed. The president has no constitutional authority to postpone one.
The US constitution is toilet paper to the republicans.
Oh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts
Oh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts
Oh good thing the US has a president that totally respects the constitution then. Phew - got me worried there for a second.