Can A President Stop The Election?

[Jigster715]

Anything on the books that make it possible for a sitting prezzie to stop the elections from going forward?

[Scott McD]

Trump and Hillary worrying you that much ??


No wonder. What a fine choice to make...

[GFED]

martial law, ww3?

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by Jigster715

Anything on the books that make it possible for a sitting prezzie to stop the elections from going forward?

Nuclear Launch Codes ?

[Jigster715]

Originally Posted by Scott McD

Trump and Hillary worrying you that much ??


No wonder. What a fine choice to make...

- Worry? No.

[Jigster715]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

Nuclear Launch Codes ?

GWB made it possible in 2008. There's a press release at whitehouse.gov about it.

[kane]

My understanding is that there are certain circumstances where they can, but they are rare and require very specific situations in order to do.

About this time every time there is a two term president in the white house conspiracy theorist start talking about how the president will declare marital law to stop the election so they can stay in power, but my understanding is they can only postpone it until a reasonable time.

[nico-t]

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by nico-t

you guys cling to anything you can

[Sarn]

Originally Posted by nico-t

[Relic]

RT

[nico-t]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

you guys cling to anything you can

actually Clinton is clinging on anything she can... literally

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by nico-t

actually Clinton is clinging on anything she can... literally

Not surprising after you fucked her hard with youre big uncut Dutch dick :

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by nico-t

I am not sure why this is something anyone is talking about.

I am forty-seven years old, run three - five miles a day, play basketball every day, and bike 20 - 30 miles a day and.... I fell flat on my ass getting out of my kid's car last week.

She slipped and fell. It happens.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by nico-t

actually Clinton is clinging on anything she can... literally

She seems to be "clinging" onto her ten point lead too.

Just saying.

[nico-t]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Not surprising after you fucked her hard with youre big uncut Dutch dick :

i wouldn't even touch her with your muslim cock

[Sarn]

Originally Posted by Rochard

She slipped and fell. It happens.

but show must go on )

[crockett]

Yes, according to right wing retards, any day now Obama is gonna take all your guns, declare martial law put any protesters into fema camps and turn loose ISIS on the US to create a Muslim state.

[Sarn]

Originally Posted by crockett

Yes, according to right wing retards, any day now Obama is gonna take all your guns, declare martial law put any protesters into fema camps and turn loose ISIS on the US to create a Muslim state.

[kane]

Originally Posted by crockett

Yes, according to right wing retards, any day now Obama is gonna take all your guns, declare martial law put any protesters into fema camps and turn loose ISIS on the US to create a Muslim state.

I've been hearing about how we are all going to get sent to a FEMA camp since I was a kid and Reagan was int he White House. Yet, somehow, it never seems to happen.

[Barry-xlovecam]

No.
Martial Law legal definition of Martial Law

Martial law usually is used to try to restore and maintain peace during civil unrest. It does not always yield the desired results. In May 1970, for example, Ohio governor James Rhodes declared limited martial law by sending in National Guard troops to contain a Kent State University protest against the Vietnam War. Four protestors were shot and killed by the troops. In a case brought by their survivors, the Supreme Court held that the governor and other state officials could be sued if they acted beyond the scope of state laws and the federal Constitution (Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, 94 S. Ct. 1683, 40 L. Ed. 2d 90 [1974]).

Martial law is generally an act of last resort. Courts will uphold a decision to use troops only if it is necessary and proper.

Lawsuit and a restraining order that would? Never has happened ...

He could try but the result would be a coup d'etat or Civil War 2

[Jigster715]

Originally Posted by nico-t

actually Clinton is clinging on anything she can... literally

- I bet she'd climb on Bill's knob just to walk again.

[Jigster715]

Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

No.
Martial Law legal definition of Martial Law



Lawsuit and a restraining order that would? Never has happened ...

He could try but the result would be a coup d'etat or Civil War 2

The answer is yes. If a catastrophic emergency is declared the President can declare martial law and suspend elections until resolution. Under the way it is currently written Congress would be powerless to prevent the dictatorial usurping of power by President. This is the result of an expansion of the War Powers Act by Bush.

Here is a link to actual directive. If you are interested in interpretation by different groups you can search on the internet as it is numerous.

Briefing Room | The White House

[pornguy]

Yes. A open and active Declaration of war. If it is not in the best interest of the country to change presidents during war the sitting president has the right to suspend the elections.

Its in the books some place but I don't remember where. Its under the war powers of the sitting Prez.

[Barry-xlovecam]

Where does the president get that power?

U.S. Constitution

Article II
Section 1.

The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each state having one vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice President.

The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.

The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.

Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation:--"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section 2.

The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.

The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.
Section 3.

He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States.
Section 4.

The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

22nd Amendment
Amendment XXII
Section 1.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2.

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission to the states by the Congress.

There is no single instance of US elections being suspend ever (<period>) .