JohninMK Sun Dec 13, 2020 7:34 am
This is a military interest site. Well, in the US that might be what the next step is.
By this decision SCOTUS have walked away from taking responsibility for cleaning up the US electoral system at a strategic level. OK there are still cases heading through the court system, one at least they have accepted, but these are at a tactical level, state by state.There is now a situation where roughly 20 states were behind Texas and 20 were against, with the others on the sideline. So now SCOTUS has shown Texas and the others that they will not, in the final analysis, stand up for the Constitution if there is a risk involved. This could break the US in two.
But there is still a President who has sworn to defend the Constitution and that document gives him powers, big powers under a couple of clauses but in particular Article 14 that are outside the US Court system as they are direct powers of the President.
Section 2 allows him to move against States supporting rebellion, like illegal elections, stripping them of their powers to send electors to DC. If he did this then the election moves to a decision by the House of Representatives.
Section 3 allows him to remove from office any public official that has not kept their oath of defending the Constitution. This is pretty sweeping.
OK you say but how can he move against those potential targets when many of them, FBI/CIA etc will be armed. Well, following the DoD changes he now has his own forces, US special forces, under his direct command that he can deploy. As per what seems to have happened in the US Consulate in Frankfurt recovering US election computers, following which 5 US soldiers died in a helicopter accident in Egypt with a memorial to them now being constructed at Ft Bragg, so it is said!
Trump can go further and employ the Insurrection Act and potentially bypass the Court system using Military Commissions (Tribunals) to pursue charges of Treason for which the death penalty can apply, with firing squad recently added as a method.
No-one knows if he will do this but if he doesn't and he is replaced by Biden then it is very likely that a civil war will splutter into action as States refuse to follow Federal commands with 75M Americans saying that they have been disenfranchised.
This is not just about the election its all about the slow Chinese infiltration of the US political and commercial system, especially the cyber warfare elements. There would seem to be a massive 5th column of Chinese supporters in the US, it is this that is the target if Trumps takes action.
Anyway, just raising this flag in case it happens. Whichever way you look at it the US is in crisis.