Constitutional Question....?

vanzandt said:
This crossed my mind.

Lets say worst case scenario ok...
The day before the 2020 election Russia, or NK, or China, or Iran, blah blah blah.... totally destroys several key States' voter registration data bases. Like Ohio or FL, or TX, etc...
People show up on election day and its a complete clusterfuck with lines that are miles long and civil servants who are 10,000% clueless as to what to do.
And say (which is not a reach), this will take months and months to fix by the best of the best that the private sector has to offer....

Does Trump still get to be President after January 20th?
I'm not a scholar on this stuff so I have to ask...
...did the founding fathers plan for some bs like this?
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Lets say worst case scenario ok...

The day before the 2020 election Russia, or NK, or China,Iran or white supremacist domestic terrorist Trump supporters , blah blah blah.... totally destroys several key States' voter registration data bases. Like Ohio or FL, or TX, etc...
 
Buy1Sell2 said:
It's up to the states to decide how to run their own elections and send electors to the electoral college. The meeting of the electors to cast their votes occurs as it normally would and a new president is elected and inauguration happens on Jan 20.
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Correctomundo.

In addition, if steps taken or not taken, are challenged, the Supreme Court is empowered to rule on- or oversee as a court master- any plans that purport to be the best possible remedy under emergency circumstances. ie. does the plan pass the straight face test of upholding and furthering the goals of the constitution under emergency circumstances, or are dark games being played? On smaller scales it does that every day.
 
I would think any president not elected as the constitution requires would not be recognized as president by the court come the end of term. That would be a bad precedent otherwise.

Thereafter, all presidential appointees would be invalid and then the presidency would default to speaker of the House.

Congress is sworn in before the president so they may be working without a full compliment elected representatives but those appointments can be made by governors or other elected officials and with that the government would exist constitutionally.
 
TreeFrogTrader said:
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Good one. :cool:
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UsualName said:
I would think any president not elected as the constitution requires would not be recognized as president by the court come the end of term. That would be a bad precedent otherwise.

Thereafter, all presidential appointees would be invalid and then the presidency would default to speaker of the House.

Congress is sworn in before the president so they may be working without a full compliment elected representatives but those appointments can be made by governors or other elected officials and with that the government would exist constitutionally.
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Well in this scenario since Pelosi is up for re-election in 2020 and the entire election is thrown out... who knows who the Speaker should be.
 
UsualName said:
I would think any president not elected as the constitution requires would not be recognized as president by the court come the end of term. That would be a bad precedent otherwise.

Thereafter, all presidential appointees would be invalid and then the presidency would default to speaker of the House.

Congress is sworn in before the president so they may be working without a full compliment elected representatives but those appointments can be made by governors or other elected officials and with that the government would exist constitutionally.
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Yes. The focus would be on the consitutionality of emergency or irregular actions- if any- taken to determine the outcome of the election/electors decision in the absence of some election results. The remedy is not for the current president to go into overtime. That dog don't hunt.

But then again, some dems don't even want a legitimately elected president to be sworn in so there is always that to deal with. Little joke there- not really.
 
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