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To: Boogieman

Not if it triggered structural change to the continuity of government.

Read abut PEADS
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/trump-coronavirus-emergency-powers.html

Also the Brennan Center has good analysis if yoiu want to go deep.


28 posted on 02/02/2021 9:55:05 AM PST by View from the Cheap Seats
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To: View from the Cheap Seats

“Not if it triggered structural change to the continuity of government.”

Umm, the “continuity of government” only gets triggered if the President dies or is incapacitated in office. The first steps in the continuity are also dictated explicitly by the US Constitution so those cannot be changed by any executive or congressional action. So this point seems doubly irrelevant.

What are you really thinking is going to happen? Do you think a President, using emergency powers, can just declare himself to effectively be President-for-life, regardless of what the Electoral College decides, or whether a new President is sworn in?

It’s obvious that Mr. Trump doesn’t think that way, he’s already moving on with his life.


30 posted on 02/02/2021 10:04:13 AM PST by Boogieman
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