One of them is conservative lawyer John Eastman`s memo advocating a legal way to run for an unelected second term on behalf of President Trump. Eastman`s memos, also known as the “coup memo”,[6][7] are documents of John Eastman, an American law professor hired by then-President Donald Trump to defend the legal theory on the sidelines of the case that the U.S. vice president has unilateral power to reject the state`s certified voters. This would result in the annulment of an election in order to obtain a result desired by the Vice-President. For example, in favor of the vice president`s own party. According to an article in The Washington Post on October 23, 2021, the Willard Hotel was a “command center” for the White House plot, which included Eastman, to overturn the 2020 election results. [14] According to the Guardian, Eastman was part of a Willard legal team that called Trump the night before the attack on the Capitol on January 6 and asked them to find ways to stop Biden`s certification the next day. [22] Further details about efforts to deny and annul the election have been reported,[23][24][25][26][27] including a meeting between election deniers and Trump administration official Robert Destro at the State Department on January 6. [28] Also in October 2021, Richard Painter stated that the former president could be barred from running again in 2024 due to his activities related to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. [29] All this is true, which is why new laws had to be created in 1945 to hang the same legal usurpers.

First, he portrays the Democratic Party as an instigator of threats to the Democratic government (by allowing too many immigrants to become voters, presumably for Democrats). And lawyers for private equity firms, on the other hand, have told insiders that they are seeing an increase in side letters or special arrangements requested by investors that are outside the proposed contract, such as provisions whereby a private equity firm provides special oversight of its investments with additional financial reporting requirements. Second, it turns Trump`s own behavior into a label for the opposition — immigration reform becomes an “insurgency,” which of course justifies the GOP`s counterinsurgency. Dad playing golf, 2019. Trump`s absurd accusation that the election was stolen from him has become a firm majority position among Republicans, claiming about 70% support. The opposition has withdrawn to such an extent that it now frames its objections in a minimalist-pragmatic way: allegations of voter fraud are counterproductive messages that deter voter turnout, the Conservatives sometimes protest. As a white American Jew who grew up in the suburbs of New York City, I have a conflicted relationship with the world I grew up in and have spent a lot of time drifting away from it. All of this can result in legal fees that are often in the seven-figure range. It may well be that the accumulation of voter fraud will discourage some potential Republican voters from voting. The legal merits of the argument don`t matter much — Eastman`s interpretation is widely ridiculed as crazy, but the key point is that, even if he were right, he would have identified a wormhole in the Constitution that allows the vice president to override election results.

Since the vice president`s interests generally coincide with those of the president, this power would allow the president`s party to remain in office through a series of indefinite elections. After the 2020 US presidential election, in which Joe Biden won, incumbent President Donald Trump, along with his campaign, deputies, and many of his supporters, pursued an aggressive and unprecedented attempt[10] to deny and overturn the election through a legalistic coup.[11] The memo, discovered by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their new book Peril, is important both for its author, a respected conservative jurist, and for the chilling impact of his argument, which would likely have meant the end of the Republican form of government that has existed in the United States since 1789.