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Supreme Court to consider election case that seeks to remove Biden, Harris from office

Photo: Adobe Stock The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has docketed a 2021 lawsuit from Raland J. Brunson that takes a swing at the legitimacy of those in Congress who voted to certify the 2020 presidential election results despite evidence of fraud. According to an official website from Raland...
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My father just sent me this. Now, this is what I call "fake news". Think that is a valid response to thim?
 
RenegadeMonster said:
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Supreme Court to consider election case that seeks to remove Biden, Harris from office

Photo: Adobe Stock The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has docketed a 2021 lawsuit from Raland J. Brunson that takes a swing at the legitimacy of those in Congress who voted to certify the 2020 presidential election results despite evidence of fraud. According to an official website from Raland...
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My father just sent me this. Now, this is what I call "fake news". Think that is a valid response to thim?
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Seems like a reliable source.
 

I find this fascinating, and I can't say I'm surprised.

Biden has been outpacing Trump's record pace of judge nominations. But sadly, there is a pattern that shows a lack of nominations in states with two Republican senators. Particularly southern states which are still battlegrounds for civil rights and liberties.

Essentially, the states and senators are not working with Biden / Democrats with moving the nominations through. They are playing hard ball and likely trying to block nominations until a Republican is in office.

Democrats never seem to get anywhere when playing by the rules. I'm not saying they should go rouge like the GOP. Just that this is a steaming pile of crap.
 
RenegadeMonster said:

I find this fascinating, and I can't say I'm surprised.

Biden has been outpacing Trump's record pace of judge nominations. But sadly, there is a pattern that shows a lack of nominations in states with two Republican senators. Particularly southern states which are still battlegrounds for civil rights and liberties.

Essentially, the states and senators are not working with Biden / Democrats with moving the nominations through. They are playing hard ball and likely trying to block nominations until a Republican is in office.

Democrats never seem to get anywhere when playing by the rules. I'm not saying they should go rouge like the GOP. Just that this is a steaming pile of crap.
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It really would be refreshing to see Democrats purchase a large industrial-size clue and just take a heel turn and lean into it hard.
 
RenegadeMonster said:

I find this fascinating, and I can't say I'm surprised.

Biden has been outpacing Trump's record pace of judge nominations. But sadly, there is a pattern that shows a lack of nominations in states with two Republican senators. Particularly southern states which are still battlegrounds for civil rights and liberties.

Essentially, the states and senators are not working with Biden / Democrats with moving the nominations through. They are playing hard ball and likely trying to block nominations until a Republican is in office.

Democrats never seem to get anywhere when playing by the rules. I'm not saying they should go rouge like the GOP. Just that this is a steaming pile of crap.
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And they refuse to change the rules, trying to work within the broken system. It's infuriating.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
It sure is. And what is their rational again? That if they change the rules they will never find common ground with the other side of the asle?

Wake up, the other side of the asle is all anything but finding common ground.
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I mean, i think you are missing something here. None of the politicians really want the status quo to change. It is apparent over the last few years that people want progressive change, so the republicans are playing the heal acting the fool and riling the worst of their base so that when nothing actually happens, all the sane people can be like, whew... well at least it didn't get worse.
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean, i think you are missing something here. None of the politicians really want the status quo to change. It is apparent over the last few years that people want progressive change, so the republicans are playing the heal acting the fool and riling the worst of their base so that when nothing actually happens, all the sane people can be like, whew... well at least it didn't get worse.
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Lee FTW.

If we changed anything so that both the conservative and liberal elite may have to give up their ill gotten gains and power to the unwashed masses, it would require someone in the elite political circles to actually vote for it. That’s never going to happen because a person who would vote for handing power to the people would never get elite money to run for office in the first place. The reason we are heading towards authoritarianism is because of this gate keeping that keeps people who would vote for populist policies from even having the funds to run for office. And I am sad to say this, but it applies to both Republicans and Democrats.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
If you came into possession of a leglislation genie who could grant you passage of three clean, uncompromised bills through both chambers of Congress, what would they be? How could you effect the greatest change with the fewest laws?

Would it be
  • addressing tax reform: corporate tax rates/overseas tax shelters/closing tax loopholes for the 1%?
  • a climate change program?
  • eliminating dark money from campaigns?
  • barring elected officials from trading on the stock market?
  • expanding the Supreme Court?
  • granting statehood to Washington DC (+2 senators)?
  • paying reparations?
  • nationalizing healthcare?
  • codifying Roe?
  • raising the minimum wage?
  • eliminating student loan debt?
  • improving access to childcare?
  • securing voting rights?
  • something else?
Anything you get passed is still subject to being disputed in court all the way up to the SC. So what do you do? What are the three things that would give us the biggest pushes in the right direction without being doomed to immediate nullification by our current judiciary?
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I feel like voting reform should lead to the rest of them, right? Securing voting rights, ensuring access and protections for all those eligible to vote, whether that's national voting holidays, protected time off to vote (much like with Jury Duty), or easier home voting. If that doesn't fix the rest of it then we're the problem.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
If you came into possession of a leglislation genie who could grant you passage of three clean, uncompromised bills through both chambers of Congress, what would they be? How could you effect the greatest change with the fewest laws?

Would it be
  • addressing tax reform: corporate tax rates/overseas tax shelters/closing tax loopholes for the 1%?
  • a climate change program?
  • eliminating dark money from campaigns?
  • barring elected officials from trading on the stock market?
  • expanding the Supreme Court?
  • granting statehood to Washington DC (+2 senators)?
  • paying reparations?
  • nationalizing healthcare?
  • codifying Roe?
  • raising the minimum wage?
  • eliminating student loan debt?
  • improving access to childcare?
  • securing voting rights?
  • something else?
Anything you get passed is still subject to being disputed in court all the way up to the SC. So what do you do? What are the three things that would give us the biggest pushes in the right direction without being doomed to immediate nullification by our current judiciary?
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Comprehensive and radical campaign finance reform fixes so many of the ills. Fix that first and everything follows.
 
Joe Mac said:
Comprehensive and radical campaign finance reform fixes so many of the ills. Fix that first and everything follows.
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Sadly, it's probably one of the hardest things to fix.

We know for sure the right will stand against it. Much of the left will sit idle.

Not to mention, the courts keep upholding funding for the most part when it's challenged.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
Sadly, it's probably one of the hardest things to fix.

We know for sure the right will stand against it. Much of the left will sit idle.

Not to mention, the courts keep upholding funding for the most part when it's challenged.
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Magic legislation genie.

Also I’d pass a law where Trump is legally required to be shadowed at all times by a former heavyweight boxer who is require to punch him in the kidneys every time he speaks.

In all seriousness campaign finance and lobbying are the two biggest issues in your politics right now.
 
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Indymisanthrope said:
Yes/no. I think DC is a given, but PR is a textbook case of imperialism and the people there should have agency to do as they wish. Pretty sure application for statehood must originate with them anyway, and is not something that can be imposed on them by edict of the legislative body that by definition they have no voting representation in. I'm not particularly well versed in the local arguments either way but my own self interests would love to see them achieve statehood.
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Agreed but equally things can’t just be left as they are either. They have to be taken out of that limbo that they’ve been in for way too long by formal agreement. Be that independence, statehood or as a more formalised client state.
 
RenegadeMonster said:

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned hear yet.

The right for sure is having a field day with it. And of course to them, Biden is in deep shit / should be removed from office or as may dad said, "executed".

Kind of funny how Trump, who's classified document investigation is being brushed off by Republicans but they are demanding action against Biden.
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It has to be thoroughly investigated and if he’s done something wrong he needs to face the full consequences. As should Trump. If you’re going to go hard after offences on the far right you’ve got to make sure as hell that you rigorously clean anything that comes up on the normal right.
 
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