Mike Johnson Claims It Would Be 'Unlawful' For Democrats To Replace Biden

[Jilly_in_VA]

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that replacing President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee would be “unlawful,” just hours before the president announced that he is officially stepping aside.

In an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” the Louisiana Republican claimed that some states would face legal challenges to putting another Democratic candidate on their ballot instead of Biden.

“It would be wrong, and I think unlawful, in accordance to some of these states’ rules, for a handful of people to go in a back room and switch it out because they don’t like the candidate any longer. That’s not how this is supposed to work,” Johnson said, repeating the same statement on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

On Sunday afternoon, Biden released a letter formally announcing his decision to drop out of the race to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee for the November election. Biden announced his endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-unlawful-democrats-replace-joe-biden_n_669d4100e4b0446139df5cb5

There are idiots, and then there are blooming idiots. Then there are fucking idiots like Mike. Don't be like Mike!

[spanone]

1. FUCK MIKE JOHNSON

[malaise]

46. And then some

Ignorance is bliss

[Salvador Dolly]

2. Just blowing smoke. n/t

[Demsrule86]

43. No he is not. He is threatening us the knowledge states have handle the ballots and who is on them. Look at Ohio.

I don't know for sure but we are so close to the election. We may not make other deadlines than Ohio.

[dchill]

56. Marc Elias disagrees with you.

He Tweeted earlier that the Democratic candidate will be on the ballot in all 50 states. So.

[Klarkashton]

3. Fuck that guy. Biden stepped down.

What are they going to do? Sue him and force him to run?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

39. Right?

Maybe they can get the Supreme Court to mandate he run? Fucking clowns.

[Demsrule86]

45. They will try to not put our candidates on the ballots especially in swing states.

This is a mess. I expect we will be in court the entire cycle...and they don't have to win just delay stuff.

[StarryNite]

4. He's going to do his best to continue to tie things up.

The court system has been secured by them. Now this final touch.

[Sogo]

5. Hey, Mikey. He was not yet our candidate.

See how that works?

[MontanaFarmer]

57. This is the only point that matters.

Biden was the presumptive nominee. He won't be the nominee after the convention. Mike Johnson knows that. He can F off.

[Raven123]

6. Coming from a guy who supported overturning the 2020 election, that's just rich

[Cattledog]

7. They must be scared.

[moonscape]

22. Their #1 goal is chaos, however

they can get it. Have done a pretty good job so far.

[BoRaGard]

48. Yes. Chaos is their tool. G.O.P. learned it from Moscow

Chaos is a standard evil-empire russia strategy.

The repubes are happy to play pattycake and copycat with their evil-empire comrades in their ongoing war against American demoracy.

[Cha]

50. Hi. Do you know if PJB's

Campaign Cash can go to VP Harris now?

Mahalo 💙🌊🕯️🕊️🇺🇸🌊🕊️

[Phoenix61]

61. It's the Biden/Harris campaign cash so yes, it's hers too. nt

[Cha]

63. Oh right! Mahalo for replying.

🕯️🕊️💙🌊🇺🇸🌈🌊

[PeaceWave]

8. The GOP lacks standing in dictating the Democratic candidate for President.

[Hekate]

9. Li'l Pervy can stuff it

[Sibelius Fan]

10. SCOTUS ruled on this. See CA v Jones.

In a 7-2 opinion delivered by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court held that California's blanket primary violates a political party's First Amendment right of association. "Proposition 198 forces political parties to associate with -- to have their nominees, and hence their positions, determined by -- those who, at best, have refused to affiliate with the party, and, at worst, have expressly affiliated with a rival," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia for the majority. "A single election in which the party nominee is selected by nonparty members could be enough to destroy the party." Justice Scalia went on to state for the Court that Proposition 198 takes away a party's "basic function" to choose its own leaders and is functionally "both severe and unnecessary." Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented. "This Court's willingness to invalidate the primary schemes of 3 States and cast serious constitutional doubt on the schemes of 29 others at the parties' behest is," Justice Stevens wrote, "an extraordinary intrusion into the complex and changing election laws of the States."

[GoodRaisin]

11. He is full of shit. nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. YO Mikey!!!! GO SUCK A ROTTEN EGG!

We have not had our convention yet!

Delegates for Biden will rally behind Kamala.

[Dennis Donovan]

13. How? Johnson is a dumbass...

There's still a convention (which I have little doubt Harris will dominate).

[fishwax]

14. get bent, dude

[imanamerican63]

15. I'm sure it makes sense by an inch or so?

What if last weekend had a different outcome?

[ecstatic]

16. No deadlines have passed so what the fuck is he talking about?

Idiot.

[usedtobedemgurl]

17. It isn't just Johnson.....

The party is ready to challenge any different name than Biden in several swing states. They wanted Biden off the ballot , so we would be in a bad spot if Biden dropped out.

[PCIntern]

18. Fuck this guy...

It’s unlawful to be as stupid and trivial as he is

[Silent3]

19. Para mis amigos, todo. Para mis enimigos, la ley.

Please don't pretend you give a damn about the law, Mikey, except as a cudgel against your enemies and an inconvenience to your friends.

[Skittles]

20. HAHA what little faith they have in their insurrectionist felon candidate

[beaglelover]

21. Fuck him. Now that Joe's a lame duck President, he should do all sorts of things via Exec Order to screw with them.

[onethatcares]

29. Joe has immunity too.

Medicare for all, turn the military into his conservation corp, re-distribute all the profits made by the bankers in the past 6 months, issue price controls on cereal, lower the cost of gas by exec mandate.

I'd go on but it gets boring doing all that winning.

[moonscape]

30. And anything he does is a legal

official act. He can grab ‘em by the whatevers. He can do anything he wants.

[Sneederbunk]

23. Johnson achieved idiot status a long time ago.

[GoCubsGo]

24. Mike Johnson is a moron.

The House Dems should have just let this fuckstick's party toss him from his speakership when they had the chance.

[onethatcares]

25. Dear Mike Johnson

please go home and show your son what porn you've been watching. He needs you.

[petronius]

26. It's so adorable when MAGA's start talking about something being lawful or not

Like toddlers regurgitating words they've heard adults use, without a clue what they mean...

[Bluethroughu]

27. It would be unlawful for a "Congressman" to take part in planning a coup.

[DinahMoeHum]

28. Hey Johnson: FUCK YOUR "BUY-BULL"

[liberal N proud]

31. That is what they want the MAGA to think and regurgitate

[CentralMass]

32. Does anyone really care what that asshole thinks ?

[Deep State Witch]

33. Go Ahead And Try It, Mikey

You that the Dems haven't figured this out? That's probably what the delay was all about. That, and waiting until after the GOP convention and TCF's rambling mess of a speech.

[kentuck]

34. Republicans have absolutely nothing to do with who Democrats choose to run for President.

Nothing. Zilch.

[haele]

35. Precident -LBJ in 1968. Before the Convention, everything is fair game.

LBJ won the first round of primaries, then dropped out due to "Dems in Disarray" over Vietnam; leaving Humphrey (the VP) and RFK to run in the primaries.

Suck it, Mike. You don't know shit.

Haele

[Sunsky]

36. Now he's verse on the law

Stfu Mike, stick to your insurrectionist, sexual assaulter, felon nominee, and leave our business alone. Our nominee himself has declined to run. Doesn't he have the freedom to do so Mike? Now we have the ability and duty to select someone else. Go away Mike.

[Jacson6]

37. Mike Johnson is the Forrest Gump of the GOP. N/T

[MFM008]

38. Screw you

Half wit Johnson.

[blogslug]

40. lol

That man is a tissue of sanctity covering a handful of bullshit.

[B.See]

41. We can say what we want about Johnson and his fellow insurectionists. All true, But

EXPECT THEM TO TRY. It'll not be the first nor the last time they'll seek to HAVE IT THEIR WAY via judicial EDICT.

[peggysue2]

42. I would say to Johnson, Trump and all the Flying Monkey Brigade . . .

Be careful what you wish for.

As you're popping those bottles of champagne behind closed doors after months of attacks, slander and disinformation, your guy Trump is now the official 'demented, doddering old man.'

Karma is a bitch and she's coming for you, Bud!

[Talitha]

44. Oh Mikey, you're such an ass!

James Mason once delivered a wonderful line in an Agatha Christy movie. IIRC it was at a Mediterranean villa, where the fashionable of the day went to play and be seen. James Mason was sitting at a table - it had an umbrella to shade the wealthy guests as they sipped exotic drinks.

Someone had been bothering him. So finally, in a commanding yet unemotional tone of voice, Mason said "Why don't you go somewhere and play with yourself."

I can hear Mason's voice delivering that line every single time little Mikey opens his yapper with yet another stupid remark.

[moondust]

47. Go home, Coup Boy

You're disqualified:

14th Amendment Section 3

[oasis]

49. Mike Johnson doesn't know shit from grape jelly.

[JohnSJ]

51. Mike Johnson, you have no standing regarding the Democratic Party or their rules

go suck on an egg.

[Rstrstx]

52. Well then it's even more unlawful for JD Vance to be on any ballots

Nobody voted for him. At least Kamala was on the ballot.

[Goodheart]

53. In other news, Mike Johnson is a fucking moron.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

54. Fuck you, Mike. All the way to the river and back. nt

[piddyprints]

55. To be fair,

he represents the unlawful party, so I suppose he would know. It should be ok with him, even if it is unlawful, amirite?

[Abolishinist]

59. It's all based on jerry-built BS from the Reich-wing Heritage Foundation.

Don't be like Mike!

[Tribetime]

60. F you mike soil yourself like drump...you're fucd now

[newdayneeded]

62. Mike Johnson ..............

.............................is a dick!

[LiberalFighter]

64. He needs to be identified as a liar