• snooggums@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    Dissolving congress isn’t an executive branch power. Congress can just ignore something like that.

    The president can’t just will that kind of a thing into existence.

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      4 months ago

      Having the FBI arrest half of them and hold them indefinitely is within his authority, he just has to argue they’re terrorists. He could say every member of congress who made statements defending the January 6 insurrection is a terrorist and send them to gitmo. He’s more likely to come after the squad though.

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        4 months ago

        Every member of congress that was part of the attempt to overthrow rhe election is an insurrectionist and should be detained or in jail by now.

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      4 months ago

      Shooting a gun is well within the president’s power. If he can shoot a gun with no consequences, Congress doesn’t have the ability to ignore shit.

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        4 months ago

        The President is also the ranking member of the military and could use the military to halt the Congress meeting, since he would be immune. It would also mean that they could not impeach or remove him because he is immune, and you cannot charge someone with immunity.