With the deployment of warships this week, peace advocates fear Trump may be enacting his long-stated goal of invading Venezuela to carry out "regime change." CodePink says his "aggressive policies seek to extend US dominance in Latin America, no matter the human cost."
I thought there was something in the constitution that let the president suspend elections if the US is at war? If not, my bad, I must have misunderstood.
He can’t declare war OR cancel elections.
Won’t stop him from doing both, though.
I thought there was something in the constitution that let the president suspend elections if the US is at war? If not, my bad, I must have misunderstood.
You may be thinking of Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War?
Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2:
Lincoln signed off on a law saying that the President could suspend the right under the same conditions.