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conservativemalarkey · 1 year

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Also, while I'm on my disk horse... I'm starting to think that we need a penalty for Nuisance Legislation in the same way that we have a penalty for Nuisance Lawsuits.

There are plenty of conservative legislators (at both the state and federal level) who have made a career out of grandstanding. They sponsor bills that have no chance of becoming law and/or are blatantly unconstitutional on their face. Bills like "let's put the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state", or "let's legally affirm that Marriage Is Between A Man And A Woman, despite the current state of the law and our constituents' public opinion".

They know that these bills are unlikely to get passed, and they know that these bills are legally suspect on their face. Some of them probably believe that they can get them challenged in the Supreme Court and win.

But I think most of them, especially at the federal level, are fully aware that this legislation will never, ever, ever go through. They're not trying to make legislation that is good for their constituents, or even good for their campaign donors and lobbyists. They're running a grift.

They're going back home and telling their base, "hey, we tried to give you what you wanted, but those mean libruls in the House/Senate/executive branch/courts struck it down! Because they're bad and evil and want to turn the frogs gay! Never mind that the bill we tried to pass through was unconstitutional, unethical, and designed to fail so you'd get angry about it. Give us more money and we'll keep Fighting For You! UwU"

And then their base gives them more money, and they get re-elected, and they go back and do it again. And again. And occasionally, one of these garbage bills gets signed into law, and everyone suffers for six months to a year before a court finally shuts it down for being blatantly wrong.

.... In court, a plaintiff who keeps suing people for dumb, bad reasons eventually gets kicked out of the judicial system for wasting court resources. If you keep putting together lawsuits that have no chance of winning, that are based on shitty legal theory, or that are clearly designed to punish a person despite them being found innocent over and over? The court will smack you down for it.

Depending on who you are and what you're doing, you might get ruled against and have to pay damages, you might get banned from suing in that court again, or you might get disbarred.

It's not a perfect system-- a homeless plaintiff acting as their own lawyer is going to get knocked down for frivolous lawsuits a lot earlier than a billionaire with a legal team-- but there is a system in place to keep this shit from happening. It's cold comfort if you're on the other side of a frivolous lawsuit, sure, but it's more than nothing.

Normally, I'm not a fan of saying "there oughta be a law..." because any law is written in blood. If you make a law, you have to enforce it, and any time you enforce it, you run the risk of killing someone.

But I'm starting to think we need a similar system for legislation.

In particular, I'm thinking if you sponsor more than one blatantly unconstitutional, poorly-written, legally dubious bill per year, you should have to justify yourself to a bipartisan committee of some kind and should suffer consequences if you keep doing it.

Because otherwise, you're going to keep getting people who are not trying to legislate; they're trying to grift.

#general malarkey #politics #us politics #legislative branch

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deadpresidents · 7 months

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Do you agree with the idea that one of the more politically astute things Biden could've done in early 2021 was push for an amendment that limited presidents (including himself) to a single term?

I ask this as someone who feels that a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024 is very much not in the national interest. Such an amendment would've guaranteed two different nominees next year, and more broadly, I think there are arguments for limiting presidents to just one term (second terms have been pretty awful in the modern era, if we consider Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and G.W. Bush).

Btw, I realize presidents don't have a formal role in the amendment process, but I think if Biden had gotten enough Dems behind it, there might have been enough support in Congress to send it to the states. In early 2021, the GOP would've almost been happy to have Trump term-limited, and ambitious Republicans like Scott, Cruz, and Rubio probably would've supported such an amendment.

That's an interesting question. From our perspective, I can totally understand the reasoning behind it, too. And that would have been a better time to attempt it for the reasons you pointed out.

However, I just think it's nearly impossible to amend the Constitution, especially in the political climate we've been living in for the past decade. It's also difficult to imagine any President actively seeking to impose further term limits on themselves. These are people who work practically the entire lives in order to get into that particular job, so it would require a superhuman act of selflessness to get them to advocate for changing the Constitution so that they only serve one term. We can't even get modern Presidents (or serious candidates for the Presidency) to voluntarily pledge to only serve a single term, so I just don't see any of them trying to change the Constitution to legally prohibit running for re-election. President Biden had been seeking the Presidency for at least 35 years, with three official campaigns for the job, before he finally was elected in 2020. I don't think there was ever a realistic chance of him voluntarily giving up a chance at a second term. And I wouldn't be so sure that ambitious legislators who have obviously been eyeing the Presidency for years would have supported a single term limit. You know how there are people who are opposed to raising taxes on the super wealthy because they are still holding out hope that they'll someday strike it rich? I'm guessing there would be a similar line of thinking and members of Congress with Presidential aspirations wouldn't want to support a single term limit just in case they eventually find themselves in the White House.

I've written about this before, but my personal opinion is actually in support of eliminating Presidential term limits altogether. As I've said in the past, the Founders did not explicitly place term limits on the President, and while most Presidents before FDR followed George Washington's tradition of serving two terms and retiring, term limits weren't imposed until after World War II. The Constitution was amended 21 times for over 150 years before Presidential term limits were finally instituted. And, even then, it was largely because Franklin D. Roosevelt won four straight Presidential elections. I question whether the Founders would see it as a proper balance of power to place term limits on the Executive Branch, but not on the Legislative or Judicial branches. So, my personal belief has been that there should either be term limits on the President, Congress, AND the Supreme Court, or there should be no limits at all. Of course, that might result in someone shitty, like Donald Trump, running for a third term, but it also provides options that voters otherwise wouldn't have. Imposing a two-term limit on Presidents may prohibit a terrible President from being elected a third time, but it also might prevent someone proven to be a good, responsible, popular leader from continuing in office.

Ultimately, the decision should be left to the voters, but I sure would feel better about 2024 if Barack Obama could be on the ballot again. We place limits on who can be candidates for what is arguably the most powerful and important job in the world, and then we complain because we don't like our choices. We prohibit the only people in the world who have actually DONE the job of President (and seemingly should have some understanding and experience on how to do that job) from being President for more than two four-year terms. Yet, nearly all of our Supreme Court Justices leave the bench by dying, and many of the most powerful legislators (in both parties) are alarmingly old and frail -- and probably running for re-election. Barack Obama has been term-limited from running for President since leaving office in 2017. Obama was 55 years old when he left office; he'll be 63 on the next Inauguration Day, in 2025 -- eight years after leaving office and sixteen years after his first inauguration. That's still younger than Ronald Reagan (69), George H.W. Bush (64), Donald Trump (70), and Joe Biden (78) were when they were first inaugurated as President!

So, if we're going to amend the Constitution regarding term limits, I say get rid of all of them or impose them on every branch of the federal government.

#Politics #History #Constitution #Term Limits #Presidential Term Limits #22nd Amendment #Executive Branch #Legislative Branch #Judicial Branch #Constitutional Amendments #Balance of Power #U.S. Constitution #Presidential History #Presidency #Congress

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govtshutdown · 6 months

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16 days left, sigh.

#government shutdown?#legislative branch #house of representatives #appropriations bill #delay #16 days left #Congress #H.R. 4364

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thoughtsafter3am · 1 year

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The Speaker of the House vote almost ended in fisticuffs between Florida rep Matt Gaetz (🤢) and Alabama rep Mike Rogers so the current state of US politics has less of a professional decorum vibe and more of an MTV’s Floribama Shore one.

So it’s safe to say that we should change the US national anthem to Entrance of the Gladiators or some other circus music because we are truly a country of clowns. 🤡

#american politics #speaker of the house #what a ride #washington dc #legislative branch #congress #house of representatives

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queenvlion · 1 year

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#buffalo massacre #say their names #grieving families act #domestic terrorism prevention act #state laws #federal laws #legislative branch #this is america #full commentary #fanbase app #youtube

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tarragonblack1235813213455 · 4 months

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

OUR GOVERNMENT

■FEDERAL

Each branch in the federal government is listed below

□EXECUTIVE

It is responsible for the enforcement of the laws of the nation

□LEGISLATIVE

It is responsible for the creation of the laws of the nation

□THE JUDICIAL BRANCH

It is responsible for the interpretation of the laws of the nation

▪︎DISTRICT

The trial will take place here

▪︎CIRCUIT

The first appeal will take place here

▪︎THE SUPREME COURT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

The final appeal will take place here

■STATE -> Maine

■STATE -> New Hampshire

■STATE -> New York

■STATE -> West Virginia

□EXECUTIVE

□LEGISLATIVE

□THE JUDICIAL BRANCH

▪︎THE MAGISTRAL AND MUNICIPAL COURT

▪︎CIRCUIT

▪︎THE SUPREME COURT OF ANY STATE

■STATE -> Idaho

■STATE -> Nevada

■STATE -> Washington

■STATE -> Oregon

■STATE -> California

#the united states of america #government #executive branch #legislative branch #judicial branch

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shitpostroundhouse · 7 months

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#raspberry #thumbs down #congress #senate #house of representatives #legislative branch #reaction gif

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reportwire · 1 year

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Donald Trump announces 2024 presidential run: 'America's comeback starts right now'

Donald Trump announces 2024 presidential run: ‘America’s comeback starts right now’

Donald Trump will seek the presidency for a third time in 2024, the former president announced in a speech from his Florida estate Tuesday night, paving the way for a contentious Republican primary and a potential rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden for the White House in two years. “In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of…

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im0ne0fakind · 2 years

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articlesminer · 2 years

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Opinion | The Senate GOP Got Played

Senate Republicans are furious that Democrats Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer announced a partisan tax and spending deal late Wednesday—only hours after the GOP had provided the votes for a giant semiconductor subsidy bill. The Republicans got played, all right, but the fault is their own. Mr. Manchin is a Democratic politician who loves spending and has no particular problem with higher taxes.…

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machinecreature · 1 month

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it's mad crazy how some people dont get that the executive branch literally just....executes the law

#the legislative branch??? Makes the law.#🤯

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hotpinkcyanmillie · 3 months

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Imo voting down ballot is more effective than being particularly picky about which genocidal president we pick

Neither Biden nor Trump can get much of anything done* without a stacked house and senate. Having a thin majority in the senate for example leads to shit like your rotating turncoat dems voting against their own party's platform for an entire administration. Likewise Trump was similarly foiled a few times by rogue Republicans he'd pissed off like McCain.

So yeah personally I don't give a crap who wins the presidency, because their ability to act on their party's agenda will be dependent on who you vote for the house and senate.

(EDIT: *Domestically. I will admit in terms of foreign policy, Biden isn't afraid to use the power of his office to bypass Congress and supply Israel with weapons to level Gaza.)

#I've been very vocal about my dem support in the past #the genocide in Palestine is a bridge too far for me but if you're insisting on voting to try and make social change consider...#We lost multiple SC seats due to fuckery from the Republican Senate under Obama #and if even if we assume Biden gives a crap about LGBT issues the entire country is being flooded with anti-LGBT and especially #anti-trans legislation and Biden can't just undo that without support from the other branches that just does not exist.#So to me it is Irrelevant who is president #if we don't get clear majorities in the house and senate it literally does not matter #A second Biden term with MAGA majorities looks indistinguishable to me from a Trump presidency from where I sit

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ivygorgon · 11 days

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AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Co-sponsor The Judicial Ethics Enforcement Act of 2024!

59 so far! Help us get to 100 signers!

A group of House Democrats, led by Reps. Melanie Stansbury, Ilhan Omar and Jamie Raskin, have introduced legislation that would strengthen oversight of the Supreme Court. I’m writing in support of it.

The Judicial Ethics Enforcement Act of 2024 would authorize the creation of an office of the inspector general to investigate allegations of misconduct in the judicial branch. The inspector general would also investigate alleged violations of the Supreme Court code of ethics, issued in November; conduct and supervise audits; and recommend changes in laws or regulations governing the judiciary. The inspector general would be required to inform the attorney general when they believe there has been a violation of federal criminal law.

Congress must pass this bill. Confidence in the Supreme Court is at an all-time low, and there’s good reason for that. Several of its justices are deeply compromised and everyone can see it.

Please co-sponsor The Judicial Ethics Enforcement Act of 2024 right away, so the provisions in it can begin to restore Americans’ faith in our highest court. Thanks.

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govtshutdown · 2 years

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The Senate has released their version, slightly different from the House version. Another step in the process

#legislative branch #appropriations #Senate appropriations #subcommittee markup #legislative branch appropriations #FY2023 #two months left #government shutdown?#Senate #us congress

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strangeknight · 6 months

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being autism about the caning of charles sumner. can you forgive me

#chuck chatters #the girls hate me for my autism related to the legislative branch of the us government and random terrible events that have transpired in it

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queenvlion · 2 years

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🚨📢📣⚠️➡️ KUVE HAS OBTAINED FOOTAGE OF THE #Uvalde SHOOTING THAT OCCURRED ON MAY 24, 2022. #Uvalde #Buffalo HowManyMore

#uvalde #buffalo #Tulsa #laguna woods #chattanooga #philadelphia #chicago #el paso #houston #orlando #charleston #newtown #Oxford #las vegas #how many more #legislative branch #makeslaw #the more you know

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