Lets say worst case scenario ok... The day before the 2020 election Russia, or NK, or China,Iran or white supremacist domestic terrorist Trump supporters , blah blah blah.... totally destroys several key States' voter registration data bases. Like Ohio or FL, or TX, etc...
Correctomundo. In addition, if steps taken or not taken, are challenged, the Supreme Court is empowered to rule on- or oversee as a court master- any plans that purport to be the best possible remedy under emergency circumstances. ie. does the plan pass the straight face test of upholding and furthering the goals of the constitution under emergency circumstances, or are dark games being played? On smaller scales it does that every day.
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I would think any president not elected as the constitution requires would not be recognized as president by the court come the end of term. That would be a bad precedent otherwise. Thereafter, all presidential appointees would be invalid and then the presidency would default to speaker of the House. Congress is sworn in before the president so they may be working without a full compliment elected representatives but those appointments can be made by governors or other elected officials and with that the government would exist constitutionally.
Well in this scenario since Pelosi is up for re-election in 2020 and the entire election is thrown out... who knows who the Speaker should be.
Yes. The focus would be on the consitutionality of emergency or irregular actions- if any- taken to determine the outcome of the election/electors decision in the absence of some election results. The remedy is not for the current president to go into overtime. That dog don't hunt. But then again, some dems don't even want a legitimately elected president to be sworn in so there is always that to deal with. Little joke there- not really.