Lucky for us, Trump is not only an attempted rapist of democracy, he's also a moron. January6thCommittee January6th January6thReport DonaldTrump DonTheCon SupremeCourt democracy
"the termination of the Constitution"But for the grace of stupidity, our institutions held. Dare we imagine the damage that Trump might have wrought had he actually been charismatic? As German playwright Bertolt Brecht reminded us, however, in the epilogue to 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui':The bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Cue up the Independent State Legislature theory that was just argued before the Supreme Court last month in. The idea here is, since administering elections is a federally bequeathed duty, state legislatures can go rogue and ignore their own state constitutions and the judicial review of state courts to do whatever the hell they damn well please — from egregiously gerrymandering districts to declaring any election won by a Satan-worshipping Democrat to be a fraud.
The Constitutional Sheriffs Movement . It rests on a novel theory dating back to the 1970s which holds that sovereignty begins at the county level and local sheriffs are therefore free to enforce or not enforce any laws they wish.