Thread by @graywolf442

NT! DISCLAIMER/DISCLOSURE I am in no way an attorney, nor a law or Constitutional scholar, but the following is my opinion based on research and critical thinking regarding the news of events from yesterday.

Speaker Pelosi, in her petty way, has refused President Trump's latest compromise proposal (even before he officially made it!) to end the partial shutdown, saying that his proposal doesn't go far enough, in that it ...

Doesn't make "permanent" the protections for DACA recipients, or those here under TPS.
tinyurl.com/ybao9mrq

Talk about "moving the goal posts"! Make "permanent" a law? I have news for the "Master Legislator" (her own words, not mine!) regarding the permanency of any law crafted by humans. No law is ever permanent, not even the Constitutional Amendments.

Wait, whaaaaaaaaat? The Amendments of the Constitution are sacrosanct!!! Or are they? The US Constitution is the law of the land, providing the foundation upon which all other laws are built. But any law can be repealed or amended ...

From town laws or ordinances, to city, county, state and federal laws, to even the US Constitution, with each level having it's own rules and levels of "difficulty" for that process, with the US Constitution being the most difficult to change or repeal.

To change anything in the US Constitution requires the following steps to be taken:

"The Constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the State legislatures"

Note: "None of the 27 amendments to the Constitution have been proposed by constitutional convention."

Source link
archives.gov/federal-regist…

That's a very high bar to cross, as it should be, as the Constitution provides, as I said earlier, the foundation upon which all other laws (are supposed to) rest. As for federal laws ... no federal law is ever permanent, even though it seems ...

Like it. As each new President comes into office, and as each new Congress is seated, new laws are proposed, voted on, and if approved by the President, signed into law, with some of those laws changing or repealing the laws ...

Enacted under previous administrations, either because of partisanship, changing circumstances, or because of opposition to the laws expressed by the people to their Representatives and Senators, demanding them to "do something!".

Which is how it's been done since the formation of our system of government. For Speaker Pelosi to demand that protections for DACA recipients be made "permanent" is ludicrous. DACA was created by EO by the former President ...

And not through the legislative process. If Speaker Pelosi wants a "permanent" solution for DACA, *she* needs to propose a law to do just that, not demand that the President propose it.

But I digress ... for those of you who may not be aware, and are skeptical about the fact that the US Constitution can actually be changed, the most "recent" example of that happening is the 18th Amendment, aka Prohibition.

Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution
tinyurl.com/ydcn37qd

This amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933 (the first and only amendment to repeal a previous amendment, btw) -
tinyurl.com/y8dllsqc

Both of these amendments went through an extensive process to become amendments, and therefore the law of the land, and are examples of the arduous process of doing something like that requires ...

But it also shows that no law is forever "etched in stone", not even a Constitutional amendment. For Pelosi to make demands that the President make "permanent" any law or provision is merely political posturing on her part.

Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Schumer, imo, are now responsible for the on going partial shutdown of the government, as they have flatly refused to even consider negotiating with the President, even though he offered a compromise.

Take the compromise, and then over the three years that this is in effect, work on making your pet project "permanent", Nancy. We The People are watching, and right now, we don't like what we're seeing. The ball's in *your* court. Don't miss.