Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months ago‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a Warwww.mediaite.comexternal-linkmessage-square242linkfedilinkarrow-up1854arrow-down18
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minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·2 months agoWe didn’t cancel elections during the Civil War.
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoWere they cancelled during WW2
minus-squareAugustWest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·2 months agoNo. Elections are constitutionally required and have never been postponed. The president has no constitutional authority to postpone one.
minus-squareThat Weird Vegan she/her@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoThe US constitution is toilet paper to the republicans.
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months 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-up1·2 months agoOh good thing the US has a president that totally respects the constitution then. Phew - got me worried there for a second.
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoOh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts
We didn’t cancel elections during the Civil War.
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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 good thing the US has a president that totally respects the constitution then. Phew - got me worried there for a second.
Oh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts