American 2020 presidential election. A constitutional chronicle of the final days of Donald Trump's presidency

Authors

  • Ángel Rodríguez Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/TSN.2020.vi10.13647

Keywords:

United States presidency, United States presidential elections, United States Congress, impeachment, Donald J. Trump

Abstract

After the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump put the entire constitutional system under pressure. He first baselessly challenged electoral results before state and federal courts and later on tried to impede Congress confirmation, inflaming a crowd of supporters which afterwards stormed the Capitol building. The reaction of Congress was to invoke the XXV Amendment to declare that Trump was unable to discharge his duties and eventually to impeach him. Constitutional questions arising from judicial control of elections, the functioning of the confirmation session in Congress, the procedure of the XXV Amendment and the impeachment of a former president are reviewed in this Chronicle.

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Published

2020-12-01

How to Cite

Rodríguez, Ángel. (2020). American 2020 presidential election. A constitutional chronicle of the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency. TSN. Transatlantic Studies Network, (10), 105–119. https://doi.org/10.24310/TSN.2020.vi10.13647