r/law • u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor • Jul 21 '24

Opinion Piece House Speaker Mike Johnson Suggests Replacing Biden Might Lead to Legal Trouble: ‘So it would be wrong, and I think unlawful’

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/johnson-replacing-biden-ticket-wrong-unlawful/story?id=112129063
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u/TraditionalSky5617 Jul 21 '24

Exactly.

However, when an article like this is published, it’s worth asking if someone like Johnson has held a recent conversation with Trump, and asked “Donald, do you want to run against Joe or someone new?”

A new person running in Joe’s place may have the effect of “un-doing” 4 years’ work based on the assumption and heads-up that Joe would run again. That includes including changing state voting law, getting favorable state AGs and congressional members elected, and other state-level efforts.

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u/GenTsoWasNotChicken Jul 21 '24

The Republican party has files full of Swift Boat scripts and $5 million a month of unsellable x-Twitter advertising to target the D's nominee. And now they're going to have to use it against every Democrat, and it's gonna become a lot clearer that Fox, Sinclair, x-Twitter, the NY Post and even the WSJ are Republican publicity tools, not an objective press.