What is up with people and the insurrection Act? He couldn't have used it. There are specific provisions that disallow the military from interfering with elections. Many of these were added in 1875 after a previous election that was similar to ours in 2020 except Congress actually did something about it, and threw out certain state electors. In any case, Trump could not have used the IA for anything, that goes the same for martial law, Lincoln only ever used it in part and it was found unconstitutional later.
Even if Trump had tried using it, do you really think it would have been obeyed? The military had already said multiple times they would not get involved. Had the Insurrection Act been tried, Trump would have had the 25th used against him, been impeached, and then thrown in prison.
There were many things he could have done to prevent what's happened; however, a majority of those things needed to take place well before November of 2020.
What is up with people and the insurrection Act? He couldn't have used it. There are specific provisions that disallow the military from interfering with elections. Many of these were added in 1875 after a previous election that was similar to ours in 2020 except Congress actually did something about it, and threw out certain state electors. In any case, Trump could not have used the IA for anything, that goes the same for martial law, Lincoln only ever used it in part and it was found unconstitutional later.
Even if Trump had tried using it, do you really think it would have been obeyed? The military had already said multiple times they would not get involved. Had the Insurrection Act been tried, Trump would have had the 25th used against him, been impeached, and then thrown in prison.
There were many things he could have done to prevent what's happened; however, a majority of those things needed to take place well before November of 2020.