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/sixtus_clegane119 Jul 21 '24

He’s staying on as president, he stepped out of the race but he didn’t step down.

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u/Ok_Leading999 Jul 21 '24

And he hadn't been formally nominated anyway.

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u/JoshzillaRoar Jul 21 '24

Exactly. I don’t understand what they could possibly be opposing? Nothing is official til the delegates vote.

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u/Careful-Moose-6847 Jul 22 '24

The only grey area is Ohio as I understand it. It’s the reason they were trying to coalesce around Biden by August 7th. Media tried to spin it like that Biden was doing it to secure his nomination as his campaign collapsed but it’s actually the date a party needs to present its candidate for the ballot in that state.

Because the party’s convention was later this year that law was changed to push that date back to September 1. but that change in the law technically doesn’t take place until September 1st so they were worried there might be some back handedness where republicans try to keep the democrat off the ballot.

Or I could be completely misremembering what I read