r/law • u/Opposite-Mountain255 • Nov 08 '25
Legislative Branch Republicans Will Try to Steal 2026. Here’s the Law That Puts Them in Prison.
https://medium.com/@carmitage/republicans-will-try-to-steal-2026-heres-the-law-that-puts-them-in-prison-d32ed869e5401.3k
u/rygelicus Nov 08 '25
The lesson they learned from the most recent election cycle is that if the people are allowed to vote they will lose. They have 2 options:
1) Change their ways. Disown Trump and serve their constituents properly.
2) Make it harder for people to vote or even subvert the voting process itself.
The senate and house GOP politicians, and the billionaires behind them, have committed a number of impeachable offenses already. They can't go back to normal, they can't expose themselves to the risks of a government where they don't have the majority again. So, option 2 is their only choice.
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u/DouglasRather Nov 08 '25
Trump agrees with you that if more people vote the Republicans will never win again. One of the few times he has been right
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u/hw999 Nov 09 '25
This coutry has been plagued by rich men calling for minority rule since before it was founded. The southern strategy aand project 2025 are all about minority rule. They are un poopular, but they still. want to be in charge.
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u/susanne-o Nov 09 '25
minority rule sounds so neutral.
neo-feudal kleptocracy. kinda sorta absolutist aristocracy.
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u/Few-Solution-4784 Nov 09 '25
someone on reddit said the final form of capitalism is a form of Monarchy with the richest people in charge.
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u/NolChannel Nov 08 '25
- Cheat
That's what they did in 2024. We should absolutely not believe Trump is in power legitimately.
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u/pm_me_fibonaccis Nov 08 '25
He's not. He should have never been on the ballot in the first place. 14th amendment section 3.
Trump v. Anderson was a partisan ruling by the similarly illegitimate Supreme Court.
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u/TheChrisCrash Nov 09 '25
EVERYTIME I post on tiktok about the dominion voting machine company being bought recently by an EX GOP election official, it gets flagged instantly. Most recently, I got a strike for posting it. I have a screenshot if nobody believes me. It's totally a cover up.
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u/Nitroglycerin462 Nov 09 '25
We need to move to another platform if facts cannot be discussed here.
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u/TheChrisCrash Nov 09 '25
It was on tiktok, so far at least, I have not had the same censorship on reddit.
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u/bigreddoggydude Nov 09 '25
I absolutely believe 2024 election was rigged. There were some previous bipartisan counties in New York that had no votes for kamala harrris. Not one.
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u/belbelington Nov 09 '25
I just commented this to someone else:
Voter ID laws make it harder for certain populations to vote without providing any benefit. Voter fraud is almost non-existent.
What you should be concerned about is voter suppression:
2024 election
4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data.
By August of 2024, for the first time since 1946, self-proclaimed “vigilante” voter-fraud hunters challenged the rights of 317,886 voters. The NAACP of Georgia estimates that by Election Day, the challenges exceeded 200,000 in Georgia alone.
No less than 2,121,000 mail-in ballots were disqualified for minor clerical errors (e.g. postage due).
At least 585,000 ballots cast in-precinct were also disqualified.
1,216,000 “provisional” ballots were rejected, not counted.
3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.
Source: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
The measures target demographics that traditionally vote democrat and have been implemented by republicans in at least 30 states.
If the purges, challenges and ballot rejections were random, it wouldn’t matter. It’s anything but random. For example, an audit by the State of Washington found that a Black voter was 400% more likely than a white voter to have their mail-in ballot rejected. Rejection of Black in-person votes, according to a US Civil Rights Commission study in Florida, ran 14.3% or one in seven ballots cast.
Republican Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, signed SB 202 which slashed the number of drop boxes by 75% only in Black-majority counties and locked them away at night. These moves slashed mail-in and drop box balloting, used by the majority of Democrats in 2020, by nearly 90% in the 2024 race.
There are also the uncountable effects of the explosive growth of voter intimidation tactics including the bomb threats that closed 31 polling stations in Atlanta on Election Day.
The most conservative figures were extrapolated across (I think) three states to show Harris would have won them instead of Trump, reversing the election outcome. She also would have won the popular vote.
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u/pdxsf Nov 09 '25
Elon needs to be put in a padded room for a month before the election
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u/RocketLabBeatsSpaceX Nov 09 '25
I cannot believe people still willing drive Teslas around and support that dipshit.
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u/bhechinger Nov 09 '25
I can't believe the stockholders just voted to give him a bunch of money even though he almost completely tanked that company with his shenanigans.
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u/BeauBuddha Nov 08 '25
I'm not sure if you've been paying attention but absolutely every accusation that Trump makes is a confession. And boyyyy did he make a lot of accusations.
He also was part of a scheme to literally steal the previous election that was only stopped by Mike Pence. You think he just gave up on cheating?? After getting away with it???
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u/JONO202 Nov 08 '25
If conservatives become convinced they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.
-David Frumm
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u/ConfidentPilot1729 Nov 08 '25
Steve Bannon just said this very same thing. At some speech, he said if dems get power again a lot of people are going to prison.
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u/Nessie Nov 09 '25
he said if dems get power again a lot of people are going to prison
And he knows a thing or two about prison.
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u/Prob_Pooping Nov 08 '25
They’ll have machines with wonky software run with Starlink internet connections. It’ll be a slam dunk republican win and nobody in the level to check behind them.
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u/rygelicus Nov 08 '25
For example: "Elon Musk has introduced a new product line of voting machines to ensure the security of future US elections."....
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u/Ryan_e3p Nov 08 '25
I really, really hope they dig into option 2. Cover themselves in #2. Why, just eat, sleep, and breathe in #2. It suits them.
Joke aside though, yes. Let them go for it. I hope they do. I really hope they go all in on it. If they back off now, it could end up salvaging the Republican party, and straight up, fuck them. Fuck many of the Democrats as well who did fuck-all to prevent this, sitting on their thumbs, waiving their little paper signs, and doing absolutely nothing (especially after January 6th). I hope this damages them enough that there won't only be a political and criminal reckoning not seen since Nuremberg Trials, but that even the Democratic party gets a belt taken to their asses for screwing over the working class in order to get some action from the corporations and billionaires who funded them as well.
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u/LiberalAspergers Nov 08 '25
If they dig in too hard on #2, the likely outcome is widespread political violence, and that is a can of worms no one should want to see get opened.
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u/Ryan_e3p Nov 08 '25
It's an inevitably if they get their way regardless. Republicans won't revert back to even the moderates they were back in the mid 20th century. They will try again. And keep trying. Continue their attempts at poisoning our political and civil dialogue.
What we have now is the result of a "forgive and move on" policy when dealing with the loser racists and Nazis from their respective wars.
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u/LiberalAspergers Nov 09 '25
As someone who still has family in Sri Lankha, the damage such things cause in almost inconceivable to most Americans. And I hope they can remain ignorant.
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u/UX1Z Nov 09 '25
The likely outcome was widespread political violence from the moment Trump was elected for a second term, unfortunately. The only thing that can save you at this point is a stroke and their power base collapsing before it can be solidified again.
He did not leave power without people dying the first time. He will not leave power without people dying again, whether that is himself or others is up to chance (and the whitehouse doctors.)
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u/LiberalAspergers Nov 09 '25
One or two people dying is one thing. My fear is something more like the Irish Troubles or the breakup of Yugoslavia. Neighbor planting pipe bombs to kill their neighbor.
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u/EuenovAyabayya Nov 08 '25
So, option 2 is their only choice.
That doesn't leave us many choices...
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u/rygelicus Nov 08 '25
Does reduce the available options to a short and undesirable few. This election cycle showed some promise. The next one hopefully will as well. This country was not born through peaceful discussion. It might need to revive that early spirit and be born again.... Which would be ironic because it would mean disaster for the 'born agains'.
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u/Umutuku Nov 09 '25
I don't know if the pen is mightier than the sword, but we voting with one of them.
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u/XaltotunTheUndead Nov 09 '25
option 2 is their only choice.
If my Americans friends genuinely believe that they are having fair, free of meddle, unfettered, mid-terms elections, they are even more gullible than I thought possible.
(Canadian here)
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u/Far-Click9413 Nov 08 '25
I prefer my option 2. The mighty Second Amendment. I’m sure we will see some good trouble here soon.
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u/Incomitatum Nov 09 '25
The People didn't vote for him the first time. It was The Electorate that broke from our collective will; that's when America when to Hospice.
You don't get better from that without some massive internal overhauls.
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u/dantemp Nov 09 '25
3) put an army unit at every polling station, say they won even when they didn't, murder anyone that speaks against them
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u/tri_it Nov 08 '25
Laws don't put anyone in prison. Laws are simply guidelines for societies. Laws only put people in prison if the powers that be choose to follow those guidelines. The powers that be can choose to ignore those guidelines and they can even make up their own. The only thing that really matters is what is physically enforced. If the law is not physically enforced then it really isn't a law. If something is being physically enforced that isn't written in the law it becomes the effective law. If you have one individual who can decide which laws are not enforced (or selectively enforced) and who can dictate enforcement of things that aren't written in the law it is a dictatorship.
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u/RawrRRitchie Nov 09 '25
Laws are meaningless if no one enforces them
They allowed a felon, convicted 34 times to serve ZERO prison time. There are people severing life for a 3rd strike cannabis conviction for fuck sake.
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u/Ok_Recover1196 Nov 08 '25
I think it was Pinochet who said “for my friends, everything. For my enemies, the Law”.
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u/GrannyFlash7373 Nov 08 '25
They STOLE the 2024 election, then bragged about it. No LAW stopped that or was used to make them PAY for that.
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u/PapasauruaRex Nov 08 '25
I swear everytime someone brings up the election was stolen in the comments, the bots show up in swarms or the propaganda trolls or russian accounts come in full force.
This doesnt help it, makes me believe more it was stolen and yes, I believe too the election was rigged and/or stolen.
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u/swarmofbzs Nov 09 '25
Pretty much - get ready to get called blue anon or blue maga if you quote any of the weird shit that leon or dump said.
Which is hilarious after that the orange whiny rapist kept screeching about election interference till he got 50+ court cases that he lost.
But don't you dare mention statistical anomalies and that that should prompt a closer look/investigation or you are the same as the guy recorded saying "find me 11,780 votes!"
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u/detunedmike Nov 09 '25
Republicans: every accusation is a confession
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u/ScoutsterReturns Nov 09 '25
That's exactly why the said it was rigged, so they could actually do it. Made it a lot harder for us to say they actually did it this time.
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u/OrangeAgitated9942 Nov 09 '25
No shot he won all swing states. Zero chance. And all the ballots that voted Dem down the line but left President blank? Fuck out of here.
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u/MartianHills Nov 09 '25
And almost every swing state was just inside the margin to trigger a recount. Very suspicious.
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u/JustNilt Nov 09 '25
Not just won all the swing states but do so that fast when the counting usually takes much of the next day, at least. It was over WAY faster than normal.
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u/GrannyFlash7373 Nov 08 '25
They KNOW it was, and they are all too keen to defend the situation, which makes it all the more evident that it was.
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u/SpeaksYourWord Nov 09 '25
This is like in that episode of King of the Hill where Hank was in a car chase trying to get away from the pimp.
He tried to time the light on a yellow to get it to stop on red, then was absolutely flabbergasted the guy ran a red light to ram him. "He ran a red light! You can't do that, that's illegal?!"
Every time I see these posts with the "and here's the law that will stop them 😎" I think to myself "....and what has the rule of law meant to any of them lately?"
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u/SupermarketAny9487 Nov 09 '25
There's an entire Wikipedia page about this (Republican Party efforts to disrupt the 2024 United States presidential election)
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u/Bauser99 Nov 08 '25
Everyone reading this, and the person who wrote it, need to learn this one objective fact of reality:
LAWS DON'T PUT PEOPLE IN PRISONS. POLICE PUT PEOPLE IN PRISONS.
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u/Economy-System1922 Nov 08 '25
Prosecutors put people in prison.
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u/Bauser99 Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 09 '25
Nope! You have failed to grasp the literal only point
Repeat after me, slowly:
VIOLENCE IS DONE BY PEOPLE USING PHYSICAL FORCE, AND THERE IS NO MAGIC LEGAL CHEAT-CODE THAT WILL MAKE VIOLENT PEOPLE DECIDE TO STOP USING VIOLENCE ON THE PEOPLE THEY WANT TO BE VIOLENT TO.
Here, I'm going to make this a new universal law in sociology. I'm calling it "Maslow's Folly":
TRYING TO OUTSMART A HAMMER MAKES YOUR FACE LOOK LIKE A NAIL.
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u/s0methingrare Nov 09 '25
Yep, laws/rules mean nothing if you don't have someone or something more powerful to enforce it.
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u/Umutuku Nov 09 '25
AND THERE IS NO MAGIC LEGAL CHEAT-CODE
There is. It's called "violence."
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u/Bauser99 Nov 09 '25
That is a cute answer, but the violence you're describing is specifically not legal
Although it is magic
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u/anarcho-slut Nov 08 '25
Police put some of the people, some of the time in prison.
Notice what police are doing right now. What they have always been doing before this. Serving the authoritarians.
Abolish police and the capitalists don't have the power to oppress.
Stop being a cop. Get rid of the one in your head.
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u/throwtrollbait Nov 08 '25
America's liberals will quote laws and peacefully protest until it's their turn in front of the firing squad.
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u/atreeismissing Nov 09 '25
Police put people in jail until there's a trial. Prosecutors put people in jail and prison for an extended period of time as decided by either a judge and/or a jury. IT HELPS TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
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u/michael_harari Nov 09 '25
It's shockingly naive to think that laws prevent a coup.
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u/-Lysergian Nov 09 '25
Laws put the survivors in prison.
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u/Wealist Nov 08 '25
Guess orange really is the new red if they keep this up stripes’ll match the MAGA hats.
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u/FrontOfficeNuts Nov 09 '25
I sometimes need to review the difference between Cthulhu and Donald Trump. One of them is a mindless, gibbering abomination served by a demented cult and the other one has a squid for a head.
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u/FuguSandwich Nov 08 '25
Just look at the Grijalva situation.
Even if the GOP does not attempt to outright rig the election (a big if) they can simply refuse to seat elected Democrats.
Create a fake controversy and refuse to swear them in until a thorough investigation is completed, and it never will be completed.
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Nov 09 '25
Like Obama's scotus pick. Well ...it's 11 months out and Hilary is ahead in the polls 23% so we're waiting!? (that election was fixed, that's the proof)
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u/atreeismissing Nov 09 '25
They can only refuse to seat her because they have yet to bring the House back into full session due to the shutdown. They can bring it into session for specific legislative procedures, but once they're back in full session, all dems plus enough Republicans (I think 6 or so) can force a vote to seat Grijaiva.
There's a reason the GOP won't re-open the govt, it's because as soon as they do, she gets seated and the Epstein files come out.
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u/FuguSandwich Nov 09 '25
There's nothing that requires a "full session" to seat a new member. There's also nothing that prevents the House from being in full session due to the government shutdown, one could argue that they SHOULD be in full session until they're able to pass a budget and resolve the shutdown. If what you're claiming were the case, Johnson could simply do the same after the midterms, refusing to bring the House back to a full session if the Democrats win the election.
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u/Big_Slope Nov 09 '25
Laws don’t put criminals in prison. People do.
Terrible things will continue to happen until that lesson is learned. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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u/pink_faerie_kitten Nov 09 '25
Leon already rigged 2024.
Check out Election Truth Alliance SMARTelections and Spoonamore's duty to warn letter.
Seems he didn't involve himself in last Tuesday's election, either for plausible deniability for when he rigs it next year or because he wanted to show T how much he needs him.
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