Under federal law, an official who orders, brings or keeps “troops or armed men” at a location where a general or special election is taking place can face up to five years in prison and disqualification from federal office.
  • Snowies@lemmy.zip
    15·
    12 hours ago

    We went to war over black people having humans rights.

    What makes them think we won’t go to war over an actual takeover of our country? If they won’t allow us to vote them out peacefully, what do they think we’re gonna do? Roll over and spread our asscheeks?

    • MadBits@europe.pub
      101·
      11 hours ago

      If they won’t allow us to vote them out peacefully, what do they think we’re gonna do? Roll over and spread our asscheeks?

      I mean… they’ve been raw dogging you lads for the past couple of years and you’ve done pretty much that. 🤷‍♂️

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
      51·
      12 hours ago

      Unfortunately you have to be armed to fight a war…and the large majority of the arms are held in these idiots hands. I do hope the left has figured out that spending political capital to try and disarm us all, is not the brightest idea.

    • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
      58·
      17 hours ago

      As long as the DOJ is controlled by Trump they won’t charge him over anything no matter how blatantly he is rigging the election in his favor and how obvious it is that he should have lost.

    • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
      31·
      16 hours ago

      I had to look it up to see what Trump/DHS’s unconstitutional argument will be to ignore this. The “…” omitted sections show pretty clearly what they will say:

      Whoever, being an officer of the Army or Navy, or other person in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States, orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both; and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the United States. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/592

      “…is held, unless such force is necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined…”

      So their first-year-law-school failing DOJ leads will argue that they need ICE there to stop voter fraud, which force is necessary to “repel armed enemies of the United States” since hypothetically the rampant fraudsters could be armed.

      Either Trump will just do it without any lawsuit-ripening warning, or if his demented brain reveals his plans early and a suit is filed in time, the Supreme Court will hear the emergency appeal of the inevitable district and appellate findings that it is unconstitutional, and issue a shadow docket ruling that overturns the (ruling upholding the) Constitution without comment or reasoning.

  • DragonAce@lemmy.world
    57·
    17 hours ago

    I think its time for citizens to start pushing back against this gestapo bullshit. We outnumber these pussies like 100 to 1

    • WizardOfFrobozz@lemmy.ca
      104·
      11 hours ago

      2003 was time for citizens to start pushing back against gestapo bullshit. You’ve been allowing them to increase their advantage for a couple decades now.

    • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
      472·
      17 hours ago

      We outnumber them hella more than that. The question is, have you been organizing in your community?

          • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
            2·
            39 minutes ago

            We’re also counting the French Resistance.

            Dude thinks all good things are done by governments or something.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    50·
    17 hours ago

    I’ve called it a while back. Make a database of people’s political affiliation using social media posts and other sources. Have agents sit outside polling places with facial recognition technology that flags anyone on that database that is likely to vote Democrat and detain a number of them until the polling ends then release them without charge. This prevents them from voting and can have a significant impact on the outcome of the elections.

    On top of that they’re going to have mail in ballots thrown out, further interfering with free and fair elections.

    This is coming. Trump knows he will have his ass absolutely handed to him in the mid terms given his well-deserved abysmal approval rating. Better fight back now.

    And if the US ever manages to recover from this blatant establishment of a dictatorship, every single one of those who participated at this should be charged at the fullest extent of the law. There is no claiming ignorance of what they’re doing. Even floating the idea of sending ICE to arrest people at polling places is a violation. They know damn well that they’re rigging the election.

    • Didntdoit71@feddit.onlineEnglish
      252·
      16 hours ago

      They know it, and they know that we know it. They don’t care. That’s what people aren’t seeing straight enough. Trump and the Guardians Of Pedophiles ate blatantly trying to cheat amd telling people how much they’re going to cheat. Now, show me one, single US citizen that’s done anything concrete to actually stop him. I’ll wait. Instead, there will be more protests. Then he’ll call the protesters unpatriotic traitors and MAGAts will eat it up. They’ll not only cheer for him as he sacrifices our democratic elections, they’ll say it was the right thing to do to “save America” from people smarter than them. Which is everyone too intelligent to be a MAGAt.

      • grue@lemmy.world
        13·
        13 hours ago

        They’re daring us to try and stop them by force, in order to invoke the exception in the law another commenter cited. They want to pretend that us trying to stop their coup makes us the “armed enemies of the United States” instead of them.

        This is the consequence of failing to prosecute Trump for Jan 6.

  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
    10·
    13 hours ago

    Elections are run by states in the constitution. Any federal agents violating that are traitors, and should be treated as such. We are stronger if we just organize.