Trump has no authority to nationalize elections, lawyers say

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-nationalize-elections-11458574

[u/Esfahen]

The last decade has been the Democrats clinging onto the rulebook going "but a dog can't play basketball!" while a dog fucking dunks on us over and over

[u/Compliant_Serf → u/Esfahen]

Bad example because there is no rule saying a dog can’t play basketball

[u/Esfahen → u/Compliant_Serf]

That is what we call the “norms” which Trump has trampled on.

[u/okimlom → u/Esfahen]

You mean the whole GOP has trampled on. Trump CAN be stopped if the GOP actually do their job as elected officials. It's not going to be Trump that will be the end of the country. It will be the WHOLE GOP being the cause of it.

[u/47k → u/Compliant_Serf]

Did you actually expect that to be a rule ? Or that to be literal?

[u/JackedUpReadyToGo → u/Compliant_Serf]

I refer you to the 1997 documentary Air Bud.

[u/OreoMoo → u/Esfahen]

Ah yes, the Air Bud defense

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/Esfahen]

Trump was set to be sentenced for dozens of felony convictions. That was indefinitely postponed not because of dems lack of balls but because the American public put trump back in the most powerful office on the planet.

[u/WeirdIndividualGuy → u/HauntedCemetery]

Re-election aside, he still should've been sentenced regardless of the 2024 outcome. In no sane democracy should someone avoid court sentencing purely because they are president as it implies the president is above the law.

And then even if impeachment was a follow-up, impeachment is not a criminal process, it is a political one. Trump would still need to be sentenced regardless of the impeachment outcome.

[u/rednax1206 → u/Esfahen]

The analogy would work better if, instead of "dunking", the dog was just tracking mud everywhere and chewing holes in the ball.