A co-founder of the Federalist Society, who compiled a list from which President Trump selected his two Supreme Court nominees, described Thursday’s tweet about “delay[ing] the election until people can vote properly and safely “as the basis for” immediate impeachment. “
Northwestern University law professor Steven Calabresi wrote in a New York Times opinion piece published Thursday night that Trump “should be removed unless he gives in” to the sentiment expressed in the tweet.
Calabresi said he voted for Trump in 2016, and voted for Republicans in all presidential elections since 1980. He added that he strongly defended Trump against what he called an “unconstitutional investigation by Robert Mueller” on alleged collusion with Russia and wrote another article. of opinion. opposing the impeachment of the president earlier this year.
“But I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent tweet seeking to postpone the November elections,” he wrote. “Until recently, I had taken Democrats’ claim that President Trump is a fascist as political hyperbole.
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“But this latest tweet is fascist and is itself a reason for the President’s immediate removal from office again … and his removal by the Senate.”
In the tweet, Trump criticized the possibility of a mass vote by mail as a prelude to “the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history” and a “great shame for the United States.”
Calabresi emphasized that the United States “has never canceled or delayed a presidential election. Not in 1864, when President Abraham Lincoln was expected to lose and the South looked like it could defeat the North. Not in 1932 in the depths of the Great Depression. No in 1944 during World War II. “
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The professor went on to say that the date of each election is set by a federal law of 1845 and pointed out that it is up to each state to determine if they will implement universal voting by mail, since “Article II of the Constitution explicitly states that states have total power on the selection of presidential electors. “
Meanwhile, Calabresi called on “all Republicans in Congress” to inform Trump that postponing the election would be “illegal, unconstitutional, and unprecedented in US history.”
“Anyone who says otherwise should never be elected to Congress again.”
