Federalist Society Co-Founder Calls Trump Bid To Change Election Day ‘Fascistic,’ Impeachable

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The co-founder of the conservative legal organization the Federalist Society said Thursday that Trump’s bid to move Election Day was “fascistic” and worthy of impeachment.

Steven Calabresi wrote in a New York Times op-ed that he’d voted for Trump, protested the Mueller investigation and opposed the President’s impeachment over the Ukraine pressure campaign.

But, Calabresi wrote, “I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent tweet seeking to postpone the November election.”

“Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats’ assertion that President Trump is a fascist,” he said. “But this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate.”

Calabrisi, who’s organization has been hugely influential in Trump’s massive record of judicial appointments, emphasized many of the same arguments that lawyers, pundits, and politicians have made Thursday in response to Trump’s suggestion: The decision isn’t his to make, and besides, the United States voted on the appointed date even during the Civil War and the Great Depression.

“President Trump needs to be told by every Republican in Congress that he cannot postpone the federal election,” Calabresi said. “Doing so would be illegal, unconstitutional and without precedent in American history. Anyone who says otherwise should never be elected to Congress again.”

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  1. Are all these conservative naysayers truly opposed, or are they moving the Overton window so that merely protesting an election and refusing to leave office seems, you know, less fascist than postponing an election?

    I find it hard to trust them.

  2. Well, it took a while, but…

  3. I recall the fall of GW Bush. At some point the cult of personality disintegrated as his popularity plumented, and the GOP began to talk about 8 years of Republican government as something they were fighting against. I think we’re starting to see the beginning of the end for Trump. The talking points will soon become "We have to get this guy out of the White House so we can get a Republican in there.

  4. “Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats’ assertion that President Trump is a fascist,” he said.

    He added, “Because I’ve carefully avoided acknowledging objective reality for the last 4 years.”

  5. Trump is trying to spin the tweet as a protest against mail-in ballots. And the Civil War was an attempt to highlight the administrative downside inherent in a Federal system.

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