The top law enforcement officials in the country conspired to overthrow the elected president, thereby effectively overriding the expressed will of voters. If that happened in Uganda or somewhere, US media would be declaring a thwarted coup attempt and breakdown of society
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Not if it's legal. That's at the heart of the definition of a coup d'etat. If the Ugandan constitution allowed for it, then it wouldn't fit that definition and so US media wouldn't call it a coup.
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It's legal according to who... you? It could easily be ruled illegal.
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Kind of like declaring a national emergency at the border.
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So impeachment is a coup?
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“Declared a coup”. You’re a dope.
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“They assassinated the president under the established legal precedent of self defense”
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"they arrested the president for crimes against the state including subversion of the rule of law, for which we have several forms of primary source evidence"
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Perhaps. But what something is "declared" seems immaterial when determining what it actually is.
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i would bet 50$ that *>51% ivy league legal scholars would disagree with you.
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