I'm getting tons of questions about what happens if Trump dies before the election? Or after? Is it Pence or can GOP just pick anyone they want? 25th Amendment? And every possible variation of these Qs and more. I'm a constitutional attorney and I'll answer them all now.
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These procedural questions are fascinating and the short answer is that there is not a lot of precedent for most of what people want to ask. There are so many variables, so many unknowns, and so much could change between now and the inauguration. So there's a lot we don't know.
But we know enough. We know that if Biden wins—and especially if he wins in a landslide—none of these questions matter.
So...that is the answer to everything. Stop fretting over hypotheticals and do something. Vote early. Donate. Volunteer.
But voting is not enough. Do more. I've been donating. I've also been phone-banking with @WisDems. You can't imagine how good it feels to convince an undecided voter to vote early for Biden and help them do it.
Voting isn't enough. Do more. Stop worrying about the "what ifs" and concentrate on getting Biden and Democratic senators into office. That is all that matters.
And no, I'm not sorry about this thread.
Stop looking. I already gave you the answer. Stop looking, close out this hellsite/app. DO SOMETHING.
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Let’s talk about Amy Coney Barrett, not her religion, but her pattern of saying that when personal religion and professional responsibilities collide, her religious beliefs take precedence.
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That pattern is extensive, beginning in at least 1998 with an article on Catholic judges in which she raises the very issue the GOP is complaining about. But first...
The most important thing you need to know about Barrett is that she is accepting this nomination. RBG is not even buried yet and Barrett is down for the partisan power grab. She’s confessing to partisanship and that she lacks the integrity for the job.
I am listening to the White House Conference on American History and it is batshit crazy. This is absolutely nuts.
A taste from Peter Wood on the protests: “Riots appear to be planned, staffed, scheduled for nights on end. These are not spontaneous, … but well staged … they run according to a well-rehearsed script. Who rights that script? The answer is obvious.” Then he blamed professors.
Quotes are not exact, sorry. Double check them all.
Trump's latest SCOTUS shortlist additions have a dangerous lack of judicial experience. Some of them are well known in legal circles (Clement, Landau, Francisco), but there are only two on the list with any real judicial experience, Bade and Lagoa (mostly low level state judge).
Half have no experience. The average is less than 2 years EACH. If you leave off the two experienced outliers, there's only 16.5 years of experience spread across 18 possible nominees: an average of 11 MONTHS of experience each. For a lifetime appointment on the highest court.
As the #DemConvention reaches out to religious voters think on this:t in 2018 nonreligious voters were 17% of the electorate, up 55% since 2006. Voters who don't go church is surging, from 18 percent in 2014 to 27 percent in 2018, another big jump of 50%. rewire.news/article/2018/1…
The electorate’s trend away from religion is going to continue and probably accelerate. This is a growing and untapped reservoir of political power.
The government’s taxing power should not be wielded to oblige Muslims to bankroll temples, or to coerce Jews to subsidize Christian and Catholic churches, or to force Christians to fund mosques, or to compel the nonreligious to support any of the above.