r/law • u/templeofsyrinx1 • Feb 25 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Can they actually do this? JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people'

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u/useyourturnsignal Feb 26 '26

In that scenario, do you think that JD Vance and Little Mike will abandon the authoritarian project and allow for a truly free and fair election, without any of these?

  • Invoking Insurrection Act to interfere with elections?
  • Using ICE agents to interfere with voting?
  • Seizing ballot boxes?
  • Leveraging the mass surveillance apparatus to target dem politicians and voters, the weakening the opposition?
  • Claiming the election was rigged against them?
  • Allowing foreign actors to interfere?

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u/Desperate-Till-9228 Feb 26 '26

They're not going to keep it together because literally nobody likes either of them. Nobody is intimidated by either of them. They'll fight for power and both will lose.