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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Democrats are already working on their first bill in the House, intended to strengthen democratic institutions across the country.
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The bill would establish automatic voter registration and reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act, crippled by a Supreme Court decision in 2013. It would take away redistricting power from state legislatures and give it to independent commissions.
Other provisions would overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which declared political spending is First Amendment free speech; they would mandate more disclosure of outside money and establish a public financing match for small contributions.
And I still remember of the other Bolton whenever John Bolton is mentioned.
Edited by AngelusNox on Nov 12th 2018 at 1:18:20 PM
Inter arma enim silent legesThere is no way the Senate will agree to that.
Do it anyway! Publicize it! Then make them refute it publicly! Every popular bill the Senate rejects is another vote for D in 2020. I want to see Mitch on the news every other weekend going, "Nyagh, I think Americans don't actually want babies to live so I'm not going to pass free healthcare for babies, nyagh."
Also if we can get enough Republican defectors we might actually be able to pass one or two so, y'know. Let's roll them dice.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 12th 2018 at 8:23:31 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Eeyup. Voters have a memory span of like five months but they vote based on what feels right to them, and that's heavily rooted in their sense of normalcy.
For the next two years, we need to define "normal" as progressive bills that people want being shut down and blocked at every turn by Republican dickbags. We want our voters to be as angry in 2020 as they were in 2018.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 12th 2018 at 8:27:16 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.There are some other issues with that proposed bill, namely that Congress does not have the power to override the Supreme Court on laws previously deemed unconstitutional (i.e., the Citizens United ruling), unless the Court changes its mind on the matter in question. With a 5-4 conservative majority, that's almost certainly not happening.
The bill is doomed in a variety of ways, which makes it pure political grandstanding, but it's the sort of grandstanding that is meant to set the tone for the upcoming House as focused squarely on progressive priorities.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"PROVIDE PROOF.
(Actual sources pretty please)
My sources are more of a reading list, really:
Bob Woodward's 'Bush at War' series, particularly volume 3 'State of Denial'
David Corn and Michael Isikoff's book 'Hubris'.
And I should perhaps modify the claim to say that while it's not conclusively provable that the civilian leadership intentionally kept the troops poorly supplied to make them more aggressive, it is very much conclusive that said aggression being encouraged by poor supplies is no small part of why the civilian leadership did not make fixing the supply situation a higher priority.
Angry gets shit done.Congress can invalidate a Court ruling by banning the Court from taking up certain cases on a certain topic. It's called "jurisdiction stripping" and is based on Article 3 Section 2: " In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make" emphasis mine.
It is a very ham-fisted approach that is seldom taken, though. And I am not sure how it would deal with court rulings before the stripping; it's certainly possible for the Court to say "Well, we did previously rule that X law on topic Y was unconstitutional but since then law Z was passed which bans us from discussing the topic Y so we can't rule on law X1 even though it's identical to X" but I don't know if they would do so.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanFrom the developing What the Fuck Just Happened Today feed:
Democrats in the House are preparing to probe almost every aspect of Trump's life and work. Democrats plan to target at least 85 different topics for potential subpoena and investigation, including Trump's taxes, his family business, and his targeting of the press. (Axios / ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-democrats-plan-review-trumps-role-hush-money/story?id=59127265
Ummm....
This is an actual thing.
Apparently, the ad ran on Fox News today, and is trending Number 4 on Twitter. (It’s also apparently made in China.)
Edited by megaeliz on Nov 12th 2018 at 11:51:57 AM
If you want to talk about disrespect of the flag.....
And here’s the specific sections of Flag Code that it violates:
"The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that . . . "
I do love how the woman is wrapped up in her blanket, hugging a flagpole though.
Edited by megaeliz on Nov 12th 2018 at 12:05:29 PM
Which means 3 defectors required to block anything in the Senate (Congressional nominees, mostly). 13 to pass a law.
Which is only slightly shittier than the previous Senate, which was 2 to block, ERROR: NOT APPLICABLE to pass a law.
If we can just get one more contested election to flip our way, we break even.
The number of required defectors is important. Remember that the ACA was saved only by Republican defections. A party-line vote could have killed it at any of the innumerable attempts in 2016.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 12th 2018 at 11:41:16 AM
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> Because that's the truth.
Two words
PROVIDE PROOF.
(Actual sources pretty please)
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