Federalist Society co-founder Stephen Calabresi said President Trump’s tweet suggesting postponing the election is “fascist” and “reason for the immediate removal of the president.”
“Until recently, I had taken Democrats’ claim that President Trump is a fascist as political hyperbole,” Calabresi wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times. “But this latest tweet is fascist and is itself the reason for the immediate removal of the president from the House of Representatives and his removal from the Senate.”
Calabresi noted that he has voted Republican in all presidential elections since 1980, including for Trump in 2016. He said he had defended the president against the Mueller investigation and against the impeachment investigation.
The Federalist Society is an influential conservative and libertarian organization that advocates the textualist and originalist interpretation of the Constitution.
“Election day was set by a federal law passed in 1845, and the Constitution itself in the twentieth amendment specifies that the newly elected Congress will meet at noon on January 3, 2021, and that the terms of the president and vice president they end at noon on January 20, 2021. “
SWIFT BACKLASH AFTER TRUMP SUGGESTS TO DELAY THE CHOICE
Calabresi asked all Republicans in Congress to tell Trump that he cannot postpone the elections. Otherwise, he said, “They should never be elected to Congress again.”
With universal postal voting (not absentee voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACTIVE and FRAUDULENT election in history. It will be a great shame for the United States. Delay the election until people can vote properly, safely and securely ??? “The president tweeted.
The tweet sparked an immediate reaction from both the left and the right. Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said in a local television interview in his home state of Kentucky that the 2020 election date “is set in stone.”
And Republican House Representative Kevin McCarthy of California emphasized that “never in the history of federal elections have we ever held an election and must move forward with our election.”
Former Rep. Zach Wamp, a Tennessee conservative who is working with electoral advocacy group Issue One to pressure Congress to approve more electoral security funds, told Fox News that the president’s tweet “is passing like a balloon of Lead among Republicans and Democrats. ” “
The president has repeatedly protested against the dramatic increase in mail-order voting during the primaries amid concerns about in-person voting due to the coronavirus.
TRUMP SUGGESTS ELECTION TO BE DELAYED, NOTICE VOTES BY MAIL TO RESULT IN VOTE ‘INACURATE AND FRAUDULENT’
Presumed Democratic candidate Joe Biden in April said “[m]Arch my words, I think he will try to delay the elections in some way, think of some reason why it cannot be held. That’s the only way you think you can win. “
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Trump, when pressed about the charge, denied having thought of delaying the election and said: “[w]Why do that?
