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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservative Legal Expert: Trump Election Tweets Are Grounds For Impeachment
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steven-calabresi-impeach-trump-election-tweets_n_5f23416cc5b656e9b0994b03An influential conservative law professor who supported President Donald Trump in 2016 and spoke out against his impeachment said Thursday that the presidents latest tweet about delaying the election is grounds for his removal.
Steven Calabresi, a co-founder of the conservative Federalist Society, wrote in a New York Times opinion article that Trump should be removed unless he relents on his suggestion to delay the November election, when Trump is expected to face Democrat Joe Biden at the polls.
Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats assertion that President Trump is a fascist, Calabresi wrote. But this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the presidents immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate.
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Conservative Legal Expert: Trump Election Tweets Are Grounds For Impeachment (Original Post)
avebury
Jul 2020
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avebury
(10,952 posts)1. Continued:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/steven-calabresi-impeach-trump-election-tweets_n_5f23416cc5b656e9b0994b03
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Calabresi noted that Election Day proceeded on schedule during the depths of the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. It shouldnt be postponed now because of Trumps fears, he said.
″[W]e certainly should not even consider canceling this falls election because of the presidents concern about mail-in voting, which is likely to increase because of fears about Covid-19, he wrote. It is up to each of the 50 states whether to allow universal mail-in voting and Article II of the Constitution explicitly gives the states total power over the selection of presidential electors.
Calabresi also called for any lawmakers who support Trumps fight to delay the election to never be elected to Congress again.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)2. So is just about everything else Trump has done grounds for impeachment
But his desire to postpone the election has really jumped the shark. Even his GOP enablers are cringing and grinding their teeth at his stupidity.
But you watch, they'll nominate him anyway. They have zero integrity. Zilch.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)3. He doesn't give a shit. They got two Supremes, 200 ideological clowns on the bench . . .
. . . so now he gets to puff and pout and act like he has principles, while reinforcing the Distraction Du Jour.
Fuck Calabresi, fuck the Federalist Society.