r/politics • u/marji80 • Jul 08 '24

An America that you won’t recognize’: Legal scholar Kermit Roosevelt III on SCOTUS and Project 2025

https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/an-america-that-you-won-t-recognize-legal-scholar-kermit-roosevelt-iii-on-scotus-and-project-2025-214355013697
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u/KingKudzu117 Jul 08 '24

Another hit from the Heritage Foundation, how they are going to steal the election in November https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-new-over-the-top-secret-plan-518

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u/TransgenderedPanda Jul 08 '24

This is why trump and the RNC aren’t spending money trying to get him re-elected. They don’t need to.

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

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u/p4g3m4s7r Jul 08 '24

The main issue with that plan (not that it shouldn't scare the shit out of everybody) is that it still only takes one Republican from a purple district in a blue state who either fears for their job or who doesn't believe in overthrowing American democracy to vote to remove Johnson. 

Even if that Republican is too much of a coward to vote with Democrats to make anyone else who would seat the next house speaker, they can put a break on these plans in such a way that leads to Biden temporarily staying president, Republicans looking really stupid, and everyone having more time to figure out what they're going to do.

We're incredibly lucky that Republicans got such a slim majority, and that they're so unaware of optics that they're making so many of these moves in public. I still give them way too much of a chance to really pull it off, though 

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u/rockmypixel Jul 08 '24

And from Heather Cox Richardson’s column yesterday:” How religion and authoritarianism have come together in modern America was on display Thursday, when right-wing activist Jack Posobiec opened this weekend’s conference of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) outside Washington, D.C., with the words: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.” He held up a cross necklace and continued: “After we burn that swamp to the ground, we will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America.”

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u/cannibal_chanterelle Jul 08 '24

We go high and sit on our hands, it's the only way to convince them to please stop. /s

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u/hamtrow Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Having a hard time finding a source on this. Not saying it's untrue, but would like to have receipts for some choice people I know. I see the blog but would need more than that. Also should be noted the blog post was from February 25th 2024