Regarding the ethics agreement

[leftieNanner]

That the incoming administration is required to sign by law. That TFG has, as yet refused to sign. What if he runs out the clock and never signs it? He will still be inaugurated on January 20, won't he? With zero transition planning? And his ability to raise as much dark $$ as he wants?

Who would hold him to account? No one ever has.

[Scrivener7]

1. IIRC, he didn't sign it last time either. Nothing happened.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. I say on January 21st, we present him with a colorguard carrying the documents, and if he refuses to sign them,

we'll have a live example of his defection from protecting the Constitution.

[Igel]

3. People--because the media's collapsed on the job--don't understand.

It is not incumbent on the incoming folk to sign if they don't want the stipulated assistance from the various parts of the executive branch.

The replacement of the cabinet and elected officials will not be stalled--that's up to the Constitution and how the Senate proceeds with confirmations. A statute cannot stage a coup against the Constitution.

What is up for grabs is what the admin provides by way of staff support, office space, and funding, and what the newly elected president, vice-president, and his appointees are obligated to do in exchange for those things. It's unwise to not provide them; it's unwise not to accept them. If they're not provided, there's no legal fall out; if the incoming folk don't want the restrictions and obligations, there's no legal fallout. Any fallout is real, in whether or not the admin coming in is prepared to act, esp. in a crisis.

That is all.

I think https://presidentialtransition.org/reports-publications/presidential-transition-act-summary/ does a fine job, and notice all the shalls are on the side of the current admin and all the allows and mays on the side of the incoming, because that's what the Constitution allows Congress to weigh in on and the President to sign off on. Note this law dates to 1963 and before that ... Transitions still happened, y'know?

[republianmushroom]

4. Who is going to stop him from running the clock out, the DOJ led by Merrick the Meek ?

46 months and counting

[tritsofme]

5. There is effectively no consequence for his refusal to sign.