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Would Biden win a non-election? This Politico story offers a mind-blowing analysis of what would happen if Trump actually found a way to postpone the election. I'll briefly summarize the argument:The Constitution insures that neither Trump nor Pence would be able to remain in office past January 20, 2021. The next in the line of succession would be the Speaker of the House. But: Representatives run every two years, so no election means no House of Representatives -- and no Speaker.
The next in line, sayeth the Constitution, is the President pro tempore of the Senate. You're thinking Mitch, right? Nope: He's the Senate majority leader.
Thirty-five Senate seats are up for election this year -- and if no election exists, those seats go vacant. Sixty-five senators would remain -- and for all intents and purposes, they would be the U.S. government.
The pro tempore President jobs goes to the senior senator in the majority party. Right now, that's Republican Chuck Grassley.
So...President Grassley? Nope.
Absent those 35 senators, we are left with the 65 senators not running. And the majority of those are Democrats. By tradition, the pro-tempore job would fall to Vermont Senator Pat Leahy. He would become President of the United States.
Politico author Richard Primus argues that the Democratic majority could chuck tradition and choose...well, anyone. Even a non-senator. (Nothing in the Constitution says that the President pro tempore has to be a senator.) In other words: The Democratic majority could make Joe Biden president pro tempore, and thus President of the U.S.
I thought of a way to give the gig to Biden without bucking tradition: Leahy becomes President of the United States briefly -- just long enough to name Biden as his Vice President. Then Leahy resigns.
A Politico reader brought up the Electoral College, would could theoretically pick a president without any votes being cast by actual voters. And at this point, even my "very, very large ah-brain" starts to ache.
A Twitter mystery. I don't really do Twitter, although I follow a few people. Since that world is not my world, I don't completely understand everything that Seth Abramson is saying in this thread. But I understand enough to realize that something nasty is happening. I'll try to summarize, though I'm sure to get something wrong.
Awhile back, there was an anti-Trump Twitter feed written by an anonymous personage who claimed to be a lawyer. He called himself "Uncle Blazer," and he had a decent following. He even did a segment on the "Mueller, She Wrote" podcast.
For whatever reason, Uncle Blazer went away. But the Blazer persona was taken up by a complex, interconnected series of Twitter feeds all run by anonymous parties claiming to be part of the anti-Trump resistance. Call it the Blazerverse.
The nature of the messages changed. Goodbye, legal analysis: The tweets were now almost entirely devoted to critiques and smears directed at all the better-known anti-Trump writers -- Abramson, Sarah Kendzior, the "Mueller She Wrote" crew, the whole lot.
The Blazerverse also claimed to be spooked up.
More creepily, the account began to—like QAnon—claim that it had inside knowledge of the U.S. intelligence community. Suddenly it seemed to be intimating it *knew* what the FBI, CIA and other intelligence assets were up to with respect to various Trump-related investigations.The Blazerverse claims to be the real resistance: Everyone else is a secret traitor to the cause.
Whereas the original "Uncle Blazer" entity had played the role of a "lawyer" offering "analysis," *this* version of the entity *knew* who was a traitor to the United States from *knowing* what the U.S. intelligence community was up to. And all the traitors were Trump critics.
The Blazerverse wants us to focus all of our attention on Volume 5 of the Senate intel committee's report on the Trump-Russia affair. Volume 5, sayeth Blazer, is going to change everything. It will lead to Trump being frog-marched out of the White House.
Nobody else expects Volume 5 to have much impact. Republican Senator Richard Burr -- whom I never trusted -- was trying hard to get it declassified. Then he stepped aside...
One day before the committee made its classification announcement of the final volume, Burr announced that he was temporarily stepping aside as chairman of the Senate panel amid a federal investigation into stock trades that he made at the start of the coronavirus outbreak.Obviously, I don't trust Rubio either.
Burr said in a statement that the panel's work is “too important to risk hindering it in any way.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is serving as acting chairman of the panel.
Marvelous Marcy addressed Volume 5 here:
During the 2018 election, Burr had — at a time when the committee assuredly did not have the ability to rule it out — twice said there was no evidence of “collusion.” Burr has made no such claims recently.In other words, Marcy seems to think that we might learn something from this soon-to-hit release. My take: If a massive Russian disinfo operation (and that's what the Blazerverse is, obviously) wants us all to pin our hopes on Volume 5, then I expect nothing good from that document.
Even just the Roger Stone disclosures from his trial make it clear “collusion” happened, and that’s ignoring the ongoing Foreign Agent investigation involving Stone. And the Intelligence Committees have been briefed on the existence of — and possibly some details about — either that or other ongoing investigations.
If Richard Burr is prepping to reverse his prior public comments about “collusion,” it might explain why the Bill Barr DOJ, which has stopped hiding that it is an instrument used to enforce political loyalty to Trump, would more aggressively investigate Burr than others.
Don't trust an anonymous voice on Twitter who tells you to mistrust Kendzior and Abramson and to trust Burr and Rubio.
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