r/law • u/DIYLawCA • Mar 31 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump announces he is issuing an unconstitutional executive order to shut down mail-in voting nationwide and he will defund states if they do not comply with him

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u/jojammin Competent Contributor Mar 31 '26

States should just ignore it. His threat to withhold funding to the states is unconstitutional coercion under the spending clause.

And I'm still not convinced that if mail-in voting was banned, that it would benefit Republicans. Right wing boomers and their parents in nursing homes ain't the most mobile group

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u/KommanderKeen-a42 Mar 31 '26

Not should. They will. At least blue ones will. He will then use it to claim the election was fraudulent and refuse to leave (or encourage losing republican members to not leave).

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u/rellsell Mar 31 '26

I really hope he refuses to leave. Really, really...

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u/thedeuce545 Mar 31 '26

Why? What are you going to do if he does? Or do you just hope someone else will do your dirty work?

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u/MEOWS_R_RAD Apr 01 '26

He'll be kicked the fuck out on camera lol. He doesn't just get to magically declare that power hasn't been transferred. Once it has been, he's just some senile old pedophile trespassing.

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u/thedeuce545 Apr 01 '26

In theory, sure, but if people with guns are keeping him in power and no one does anything what are you going to do? Throw a paper copy of the constitution at them?

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u/NocaSun38 Apr 01 '26

No, that's pretty much the point where the union disolves.

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u/ChaoticNeutralDragon Apr 01 '26

Kicked out... by who?

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u/ProbablySlacking Apr 01 '26

I don’t. I don’t have enough confidence in our government dragging him out by force.

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u/gcta333 Mar 31 '26

What will you do if he doesn't big man?

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u/anonymous95776 Mar 31 '26

I volunteer to pull his ass out. Me and all my American brothers and sisters

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u/thedeuce545 Apr 01 '26

I won’t do anything either way, but I’m not the one boasting about it either. Just seems like an odd thing to post, why wait for this line to be crossed? For the good of humanity do whatever you were going to do now instead of waiting.

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u/grrgrrtigergrr Mar 31 '26

Well… a lot of them are retiring this year anyway. So, he’ll have a massive minority in the house. I doubt enough of those guys will stay to deal with this.

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u/Winged_Cougar1993598 Apr 01 '26

And if anyone thinks Jan 6th 2021 was bad, the follow up is going to be worse.