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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 344: Transitional Defense |
| red sox 777 11/12/20 8:15:45 PM #58: | LordoftheMorons posted... Yeah I guess they could try that, but I can't see any court upholding throwing out the vote after the election's already happened. Oh it's very easy for the courts to do nothing about that. Because the Constitution doesn't give them jurisdiction to hear that kind of case. That authority is given to Congress. I think it's actually a pretty clear cut case that the courts do not have jurisdiction. The equivalent in the UK would be, prior to the Fixed Terms Parliaments Act passing*, the Queen walking into the House of Commons and announcing that Parliament is dissolved and the Prime Minister is fired. Legally speaking the Parliament and courts had no power to stop the Queen from exercising her lawful powers as monarch. *This may be the situation again, if the FTPA has been repealed, as the conservatives were saying they would do. Not sure if it's gone through yet, or if it has, if the portion of the FTPA taking away the monarch's power to dissolve Parliament at will has been included in the repeal. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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