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.
  • grue@lemmy.world
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    6 days 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.