Merrick Garland needs to shit or get off the pot.
Disenfranchising every single voter will certainly start the Civil war Russia has been heavily kindling in America.
Yup.
I’m learning that my civics classes could have been condensed to: “It’s all just a gentleman’s agreement”
Somebody please tell me that this guy is wrong.
Yes there is a hole here. Johnson is no longer speaker of the house on January 3rd. The swearing in of members happens after a new speaker is selected (presumably a Democrat if Democrats took control). This is why for the most recent congress no one was sworn in until January 7th, after Mccarthy was finally elected as speaker after many rounds of voting.
That being said facists are gonna facist. Could Republican state governors/secretaries of states pull some shenanigans to prevent certifications of Democrat representatives or the electoral votes from their states? If Republicans retain control of the house they could absolutely do something like the article describes as well. If they have control of the house and senate they can basically make the electoral count certification procedures anything they want, refuse to seat members, lots of stuff.
The good news here is that past performance isn’t a good way of judging if they’re predictions are good this time around.
The bad news is, it seems plausible enough a thing thst… I think he might be right.
And I absolutely do not trust Johnson. He professed to have been told by Sky Daddy that he is like Moses. He believes he is acting with a divine mandate; and you just can’t reason with a guy like that.
Yeah, that’s what concerns me. It definitely sounds plausible and I’m not an expert in the legalities of this, so from my outside (Australian) perspective this very much looks like a viable path for the GOP to take power. I haven’t followed much of Johnson’s activities either, but from what I’ve seen of him he strikes me as very dodgy… much like our ex PM Scott Morrison.
it’s viable in the same way that Hitler rose to power. Jan 6 is a parallel to the Beer Hall Putsch,
Though Trump never went to jail for it. it’s not really legitimate, and there’s no telling what would happen. I’m not convinced all the people saying ‘civil war’ will take up arms. They probably have a lot to loose. like their armchairs and shit.
The author left out that they would need a majority in both chambers to pull this off
Mr. Johnson also could demand that Republicans in Congress vote as a bloc on Jan. 6, 2025, against certifying election results. But he would need 20 percent of both chambers to agree to object, and then a majority of both chambers to vote to sustain the objection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/us/politics/mike-johnson-2024-election-certification.html