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still_one

(98,883 posts)
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 07:05 AM Nov 2020

The country is being held hostage by the criminals in the WH. Is there anything legally we can do

from a legal standpoint to stop this disgraceful suppression?

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The country is being held hostage by the criminals in the WH. Is there anything legally we can do (Original Post) still_one Nov 2020 OP
Impeachment? Give Republicans another chance to remove him. Buckeyeblue Nov 2020 #1
Not really. The founding fathers did not have a crystal ball to see the future with a total mad man Vinca Nov 2020 #2
We might not be able to prevent it, but we should try to reverse it, and Mike 03 Nov 2020 #3

Buckeyeblue

(6,304 posts)
1. Impeachment? Give Republicans another chance to remove him.
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 07:20 AM
Nov 2020

We'd have to know the votes where there though. Otherwise the Republicans could probably just run out the clock.

Other than that there is not really anything legal that I can think of.

Vinca

(53,636 posts)
2. Not really. The founding fathers did not have a crystal ball to see the future with a total mad man
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 07:36 AM
Nov 2020

in the White House. Our government has depended on sanity and a modicum of decency and common sense to operate. At this point we've got none of the above. The only remedy might be the 25th amendment, but the toadies surrounding Trump are not unlike the 900+ Kool-Aid drinkers at Jonestown. 62 days.

Mike 03

(18,690 posts)
3. We might not be able to prevent it, but we should try to reverse it, and
Thu Nov 19, 2020, 08:35 AM
Nov 2020

the legal theory should be that the actions being taken now are in bad faith, efforts to sabotage the incoming administration, including but not limited to:

Lame duck judicial appointments

Trump stuffing "moles" into various agencies

Any removals of people Biden/Harris wish to keep

Any Executive Orders

Miscellaneous cruel and despicable idiocy, like sticking a Holocaust Denier on whatever panel that was yesterday, a panel of historians or Jewish people, or a panel to investigate Nazi history (?) (Sorry, I can't recall what the purpose of that panel is).

And protections for civil servants should be no excuse.

Really, everything Trump is doing now is simply inexcusable and self-evidently "in bad faith."

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