The problem with not attempting another impeachment is that it even further lowers the bar for what counts as impeachable behavior. The lesson going forward for conservatives will be that corruption, personal enrichment, stealing and hoarding classified information, inviting other nations to meddle in our elections, using EOs like they allow you to dictate new laws, and mob-style ‘negotiating’ with our allies, are all perfectly OK from now on.
In Oregon we ONLY do paper ballots so best of luck to the Feds if they try to dictate how my state exercises its constitutional guarantee to run it’s own elections.
I suppose a state can sign it’s rights away in a contract just like any other entity, but I’d love to know if one EVER HAS. Because I don’t think that’s up to GEO and ICE to determine between the two of them which laws they are obligated to follow or not. At first I assumed that ICE had gotten some actual US State to agree to this, which would be horrible but at least would make more sense than a private fucking company and a federal agency unilaterally declaring they won’t follow the laws of the state they are operating in, which is what this appear to be.
Oh I know they know. And they know we know they know. Did you know zat?
In my state we vote 100% by paper mail-in ballot and it is one of the most secure, traceable, and fraud-resistant ways you could possibly do it. And it’s vastly more fair than in person voting for the disabled, elderly, homebound, just to name a few. Repubs will whine about machines not having a proper paper trail and then shit on literally the most auditable, paper-trail-ful possible way of doing things, which is universal mail-in ballots. I’ve never heard one person here, of any political side, say that they’d rather have a touchscreen backed up by god knows what quality of software in a booth someplace they have to drive to on one certain day so they can stand in line for hours and cross their fingers that their vote registers the way they meant it to.
If they’re smart (ha) then they’ll just generate a bunch of buzz and fear about how ICE might be out and about on election day, so that as many people as possible from vulnerable populations (aka non-male non-white people) are too scared for their lives and freedom to go vote.
Oh boy if Federal officers start yanking people out of voting booths or intercepting people on their way to vote on election day we are going to have a fucking shit show.
no, I think he was RIPPED and perhaps BLISTERED
If he’s not dead dead, which admittedly seems like it would hard to keep secret for a month and a half, it seems pretty likely that he knows he isn’t fit to serve and is simply waiting on announcing that until it’s too late for the people of Kentucky to have a say about his successor. Which would, as many have noted, be a perfect way for this ghoul to end his career, fucking over his constituents one last time on his way out the door.
Oh my golly g, the right wing grifters talk to eachother and ask eachother favors? Blow me over with a fucking feather and then wake me up when anyone at all gets actual time for this.
absolutely, judges have every right to sanction and refer to the Bar attorneys that don’t live up to the code of professional ethics. I understand why most judges most of the time are loath to do this, but lawyers are supposed to have actual hard ethical obligations as officers of the Court to NOT act in the way these ones did.
If Platner wants to defend himself publicly on this, and/or keep running, and/or sue the accuser for libel, he’s free to do any or all of that. As anyone who’s been around for a few cycles know, its pretty common for candidates and other public figures, when they first reach a certain terminal level of attention or fame, to get a wide range of accusations on business, personal matters, drug use, and past sexual behavior. Just because these appear to be conveniently timed politically, is not evidence for or against their veracity. If there is no actual juice to these accusations, then dealing with people who lob bombs like that into the middle of campaigns is a well-worn playbook that thousands of politicians have run and won with, and he’ll be fine. If.
Well good, get it on the books for future historians if nothing else.
Lol Mike Johnson done fucked up. Discharge petitions essentially mean your own caucus hates you and can’t work with you, so they use the opposition to get around you. There have been like an average of about 1 of these per congress over the last 100 years, now we have two huge ones in just a couple months.
Because there could not be a more cut-and-dry example of an illegal order than firing on helpless shipwrecked survivors, that’s why.
Every minute he’s sleeping is a minute he’s not actively fucking us at least I guess
Well knock me down with a feather, Dems don’t give a fuck about extrajudicial killings, I may die of surprise.
Are they though?
Well add him to the long list of rats who think they feel the MAGA ship sinking the last few months. If I thought Milo capable of anything except acting in his own craven self-interest I might even be a bit proud of him.