House decides if there is no electoral college majority? Learned something new. Would it be the new House or the current House?
House decides if there is no electoral college majority? Learned something new. Would it be the new House or the current House?
Looks like the answer is 'the new one...but it is open for the outgoing one to try and do it themselves.'This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/doc.../deadlock2.htm
Fortunately, the background of the Twentieth Amendment strongly suggests that the loophole left by its language is plugged tight by its history: the whole point of that amendment's provision for the new Congress to convene seventeen days before the new President takes the oath was to prevent a lame duck Congress from selecting the President or Vice President. When history and principle are this clear, the silence of the Constitution's text becomes almost irrelevant. The document should be interpreted to forbid lame duck manipulation of the presidency, although a partisan Congress might decide differently -- and it is anyone's guess how far the courts would go to halt the lame ducks as they tramp across the spirit of the document for their own narrow ends.
Oooo Trump gets to appoint another judge. Gonna be some entertainment in the news for the next few weeks
Originally posted by Thales of Miletus
If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
Originally posted by Toma
fact.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Isn’t that the truth.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft
his current picks haven't exactly done his bidding.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What they do is less interesting than watching the lefties lose their minds about the fact that he picked them.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Originally posted by Thales of Miletus
If you think I have been trying to present myself as intellectually superior, then you truly are a dimwit.
Originally posted by Toma
fact.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I might have to avoid my social media for the next day or two as I'm expecting an onslaught of weeping over old Ginsy kicking the bucket.
lol yup.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
SCOTUS or POTUS?
Watching Biden answer questions is so fkn painful. Believe all women unless it's me because it never happened lol wut
I am user #49Originally posted by rage2
Shit, there's only 49 users here, I doubt we'll even break 100
Yea this was the David Pakman argument against trump “we can’t risk losing the courts”This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The conservative cudgel of the Supreme Court never seemed to show up.
That said, it comes down to hubris, Obama admin asked rbg to step down during his time in office but she was convinced Hilary would win, and so was Obama when he decided not to push Mitch on the vacant seat in 2015.
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It's well underway. RBG was an impressive person that led an incredible life, but rather than discussing her legacy I've got friends from Britain(!) talking about how they are literally shaking in fear because Trump gets another nom.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
those people are suckers.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Well he hasn't really been selecting people to "do his bidding". He has been selecting people to uphold constitutional values.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Academia does seem to attract some real drama queens.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Going to be very interesting to see what the senators will do, especially those up for election. So far only one republican senator has confirmed she won’t support a vote (Murkowski). 3 more defections/abstains and they won’t be able to confirm. Collins and Romney are possible, and then there is also a potential for Arizona seat to flip within this session assuming they don’t confirm before end of November.
I still think republicans will be able to ram it through even if they lose the election and do it in the lame duck period, but definitely going to be a close one.
You’d have to cite this.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The dems only controlled the senate for Obama’s first 2 years so she would have had to step down then. Hilary was irrelevant.
When does the RBG commemorative Playboy come out? You know I'd buy that.
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RIP to RBG, but this is an election thread. I don't think the next appointy had anything to do with the election.
Trump’s choice on who he nominates and the inevitable battle for confirmation definitely have implications for the election.
It's pretty obvious to anyone that isn't blind. Republicans have no morals but once they have the votes a few will get hall passes to stand against it. It'll be a 51-49 vote like usual.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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