Never in my long lifetime have I seen such a lack of good faith on the part of an outgoing administration during a transition to a new administration. Trump and his people initially refused to cooperate in the transition turnovers and have been making personnel assignments and foreign policy decisions with the express purpose of harming the incoming administration. This outgoing administration’s only restriction is illegality, with no consideration for respect or honor. It is the honorable duty of outgoing administrations to graciously turn over the reins, but any form of honor, graciousness, cooperation, or morality is completely missing in Trump and his cultish henchmen.
I hope that the Biden Administration and the new Congress write an enforceable law that says that any decisions, laws, personnel appointments, treaties, breaking of treaties, sanctions against countries, etc. – anything at all that the outgoing administration does – can be overturned with a simple Executive Order by the new Administration with no input from Congress required. Anything the country would need to do during the transition could be done by the outgoing Administration in consultation and approval of the incoming Administration, so those agreed to actions would not be overturned.
I would call it the Bad Faith Transition law.
Also, I see no need for such a long period between the election and the certification of the election, nor between the certification of the election and the swearing in of the new Administration. The bad faith of this outgoing Administration shows us that malicious intent can harm the incoming administration, thwart the judgment of the voters, and harm the country.
It seems our Founding Fathers, despite their best efforts to have checks upon bad faith tyrants, missed the harm that can be done by a malicious losing president and his administration after his loss and before the swearing in of his replacement.
