Redditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 months ago‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a Warwww.mediaite.comexternal-linkmessage-square240linkfedilinkarrow-up1852arrow-down18
arrow-up1844arrow-down1external-link‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a Warwww.mediaite.comRedditsux@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square240linkfedilink
minus-squareTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up58·6 months agoWe didn’t cancel elections during the Civil War.
minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·6 months ago“Missed opportunity.” - Trump, probably.
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·6 months agoWere they cancelled during WW2
minus-squareAugustWest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·6 months agoNo. Elections are constitutionally required and have never been postponed. The president has no constitutional authority to postpone one.
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minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoOh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts
minus-squareCircaV@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoOh good thing the US has a president that totally respects the constitution then. Phew - got me worried there for a second.
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoOh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts
We didn’t cancel elections during the Civil War.
“Missed opportunity.” - Trump, probably.
Were they cancelled during WW2
No. Elections are constitutionally required and have never been postponed. The president has no constitutional authority to postpone one.
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Oh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts
Oh good thing the US has a president that totally respects the constitution then. Phew - got me worried there for a second.
Oh I can hear the scribbling for a bold new executive order that will cause all kinds of silence from the courts