Each CSE [Chief State Executive] should be term limited to [perhaps] three years.
‘Anti-power’ is the main idea long term. So all but one aspect of the CSE’s authority should be based on ‘anti-power’ and ‘anti-spending’ concepts, authority that prevents the federal government from ever being this powerful or wasteful again.
But when it comes to emergency border safety? Yes, the CSE should be capable of solving that problem in a VERY decisive way since illegal immigration is a threat to the safety of US citizens as well as a drain on water reserves, oil refineries, healthcare, prisons, schools, infrastructure, unskilled labor opportunities, and illegal immigrant children might well remain a drain on Social Security.
So let's start with a quick list of what the CSE’s sole power and numerous ‘anti-power’ authorities could look like if states agree ...
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1. Emergency Border Czar Option
If there is 2/3 super-majority support by the states, the CSE could appoint a ‘Border Czar’ who is term limited to three years.
[Specifics of this and other concepts will be posted separately further down in this thread.]
2. The very first CSE in existence should be the only one to have this much [temporary] power, but that pioneering individual should have the authority to ‘sweep clean’ both the executive branch and the federal judiciary to his or her satisfaction.
The very first CSE may dismiss any unelected federal official or any federal judge for any reason during her or his first twelve months of service. This includes supreme Court justices.
This should be a transitional clause that is expunged after those twelve months end.
[And would be more smooth to move this down as the last clause of the amendment so expunging doesn't create a ‘missing number’ of the clauses. But during this deliberation, its significance should not be hidden or buried.]
— Except for ‘2’, all other solutions suggested should be permanent —
3. The CSE could be empowered to censure federal officials and even the President. With three censures, a hearing launches an ‘impeachment-by-the-states’ process that considers ‘dereliction of duty’ or ‘violation of sacred oath’ specifically.
4. The CSE could veto new legislation and repeal any executive orders.
5. The ‘Chief’ could also be empowered to cut and freeze any federal spending except for Social Security benefits.
[I'll suggest a 99% pain-free Social Security reform fairly soon. That will be a separate thread.]
CSE cuts would be 1% at a time and as frequently as once every two months [but not on S.S.]. Such cuts and freezes can be as broad or targeted as the Chief so chooses and may disregard federal union agreements. [The two month delays provide the states opportunities to replace a Chief who cuts too aggressively.]
6. No federal judge or cabinet member may be appointed without the CSE’s confirmation. And every time the President nominates someone to the cabinet or the judiciary, the House may competitively nominate someone else, and both nominees engage in daily fair debates [no moderator, fair time] until the CSE confirms one of the two.
The Senate [which has such a miserable confirmation history] should no longer play a role.
7. The Chief could also recommend that specific federal court opinions be ‘tainted’. If the majority-of-states agree with a certain number of tainted opinions, then the federal judge would be personally tainted, impeached, and removed by default.
8. The CSE could recommend deeper spending cuts or that any legislation or treaty be should be repealed. Then the CSE can back up such suggestions through *mandatory debates*.
Please note ‘number 5’ in post 3. You’ll love it.