4 Ways to Prevent a Future Insurrection
As violent and tumultuous as the postelection period has been, imagining how much worse things could be is unfortunately all too easy. What if Mike Pence had gone along with Donald Trump’s gambit to thwart Congress’s counting of electors? What if both chambers of Congress were held by the president’s own party, and willing to overthrow the vote? No statute exists to prevent this, because pre-Trump, every outgoing president played by the rules. America can no longer bank on that sort of behavior. The newly minted Congress must pass legislation to deter similar—and potentially bloodier—constitutional showdowns in the future.
Trump and his enablers have disrupted the normative flow of virtually every stage of this election. Congress should accordingly revisit four particular
