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WASHINGTON, D.C. Attorney General William Barr, in an interview with Slimebag Fascist Enabling Toady Fucksticks Quarterly, intimated that he believes his operating principle of unitary presidential power gives a sitting president the legal authority to ignore any election results they dont personally agree with.
Im not saying the Constitution says this is the case, mind you, Barr told the magazine, Im just saying this is a feeling I have. And thatll gladly make in a legal brief before one of the judges that Mitch McConnell helped get rammed through into a lifetime appointment.
Barr theorizes that the founders surely would have wanted presidents to have kingly, universal powers, and that those powers would logically extend to elections.
If hes the chief executive of our country, who is in a better position to judge if an election is valid, but him? He has a duty to make sure elections go the way he wants and needs them to, Barr explained.
https://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/barr-presidents-can-ignore-elections/
JI7
(89,247 posts)spanone
(135,827 posts)...and he's full of shit.
eShirl
(18,490 posts)oregonjen
(3,335 posts)Had to do a double take. Geez, anything could be real at this point.
cayugafalls
(5,640 posts)But with this administration you just never know.
So close to real, it is not funny.
MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)(and "truth" is something that you don't even know if you can believe anymore........).
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)Devilsun
(200 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Chainfire
(17,531 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)Four months from now...
Warpy
(111,249 posts)The strategy is to tie vote by mail up in the courts so that in person votes in red states will be the only ones that count.
It's not going to work. I can't see a majority on the USSC going for that one. Absentee ballots have a long history in this country, from overseas military to expats to the diplomatic corps, not to mention the elderly and shut in voters. They haven't got a legal leg to stand on, they just want to drag it out as long as they can.
But yes, this site is staire, the article about somebody's penile discharge looking like Stephen Miller should be a dead giveaway.
Cha
(297,154 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)an imperial Presidency...as long as the President is a christofascist like him.