@sjgenco@me.dm It has nothing to do with the GOP, though.

These matters of constitutional interpretation are not new. These are questions that have been looming for decades with different experts and authorities debating the meanings because they were unclear, heck, the authorities were begging for clarity specifically to head off a moment like this when we do need to know what the rules are.

The GOP didn't invent this.

Anybody nerdy enough to be plugged into the academic debates about this sort of thing would have been very familiar with these arguments for quite a while, long before Republicans discovered them.