Posted on 12/15/2020 9:18:21 PM PST by RandFan
State Sen. Amanda Chase (R), a Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, called on President Trump to declare martial law to keep Joe Biden from being sworn in as the next president.
Writing in a Facebook post early in the morning on Tuesday, Chase said Biden is “not my president and never will be,” while linking to a New York Times story detailing how the Electoral College had certified Biden’s election victory.
She echoed Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that Biden had “cheated to win” and said she and many other Americans will “never accept these results.”
“Fair elections we can accept but cheating to win; never. It’s not over yet. So thankful President Trump has a backbone and refuses to concede. President Trump should declare martial law as recommended by General Flynn," Chase wrote.
The U.S. has never declared martial law, which gives the military broad powers in a time of crisis, at the federal level. But it has been used in some instances at state and local levels during disasters or times of unrest, such as in Hawaii following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
It’s a legal grey area and any effort by Trump to use the military to overturn the election results would be immediately thwarted by Congress or the Supreme Court.
Trump’s legal challenges to the election have been broadly dismissed by the courts, including the Supreme Court. The president and his campaign have not been able to prove the wild accusations they’ve made on social media and cable news.
The Electoral College and the states have certified Biden the winner. Congress will confirm the Electoral College vote count on Jan. 6 and Biden will be sworn in on Jan. 20.
But Chase’s remarks reveal how a segment of Trump’s most fervent supporters insist the election was stolen and are proposing increasingly radical solutions to avert the outcome.
Chase says she’s working with pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell “to expose what I and others believe is extensive fraud here in Virginia.”
Chase and Del. Kirk Cox are seeking the GOP nomination for governor in Virginia to replace outgoing Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.), whose term expires in November.
Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe , state Rep. Jennifer Carrol Foy, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and state Sen. Jennifer McClellan are seeking the Democratic nomination.
Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie by about 9 points in 2017. Biden carried the state by 10 points this year.
At least President Trump has some support.
> It’s a legal grey area and any effort by Trump to use the military to overturn the election results would be immediately thwarted by Congress or the Supreme Court.
As the author claims, It’s never been done, so wether or not congress would stop the president (and SCOTUS can be told to pound sand rather easily at this point) is debatable.
Trump should take whatever legal means he has at his disposal, and that’s a lot thanks to the cold war and extraordinary powers granted to the President in times of national emergency, which this is.
The stage two of vote fraud challenge?
stage 1) The legal challenge by states against swing states
stage 2) The call for martial law by many state officials (and others)
Move the military against SCOTUS and Pelosi!!!
That would put the fear of God in them.. Try them for High Treason!
Martial law would be an awful action to take, but allowing an obviously stolen election to stand is worse.
As Sidney Powell so aptly put it, the election was a cyber Pearl Harbor. Hopefully Midway is coming soon.
It sounds good and I am praying something happens.
At this point, it isn’t even about President Trump. The democrats just cheat. They totally cheated John James out of being senator.
We are facing total evil. What are we to do. I am looking for a leader. I suspect millions of us are.
Pay per view of that would retire half out national debt.
Good for her! She has more guts than republicans in the senate. The deep state politicians and their cronies are all disgusting pieces of shit! They need to be taught a lesson and it will come. There is so much dirt on them it’s ridiculous and the SCOTUS Roberts too. What a fu(king payed off panty waist!
Go get’m Amanda! Good luck running for governor.
A drastic action like martial law requires legitimate pretext. The legal challenge by states was one of them. If this one is building up, this could be another one.
We don’t know how it will turn out though. Maybe something or nothing.
If handing over the Presidency to a known chinese asset nostril deep in corruption due to a rigged election ain’t a ‘legitimate pretext’, I don’t know what is.
If the president did declare martial law, just how would the congress or the courts stop him? Do they have an army?
President Trump may leave and he will be like a fart in the wind. He doesn’t need this.
But he likes to fight most of us do too
Do we have an army?
It would get confusing very fast for the military. My suspicion is they will follow a President elected by the electoral College and confirmed by congress and Senate and reject President Trump.
They may prefer President Trump, but would they break with elections tradition, I have my doubts.
Cincinnatus (Trump) vs. Mao (Xi). We’ve lost the republic. The only question is whether we choose a virtuous patriotic autocrat or a malignant foreign tyrant.
“unsubstantiated claims?”
After seeing all of the activity that occurred, for someone whether a politician or journalist ...what a joke...to use that phrase means they need serious help.
they would have to be activists who never acknowledge the truth
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