I'm thinking Linda, Obama, Xlintons, Harris and Biden, but ESPECIALLY WALZ with his outrageous, habitual and unbridled lies from his son's experience with active shooters, to China visits to J6er's actions. This pure perjury to the public must stop.
Good suggestion.
Cold tar and feathers. Worked then, could work now.
Bad idea. Who gets to say what is and isn’t a lie? If this law were in place right now, for example, Trump would undoubtedly have already been convicted under it. The DOJ is controlled by Dems, and they have declared that the 2020 election was absolutely fair and clean. Trump has claimed otherwise — they would consider that to be a lie and would most certainly have prosecuted and likely have convicted him.
I’ll keep the First Amendment the way it is, thank you very much. If a politician slanders someone, they can be held liable in a civil suit, but criminalizing free speech is not a good idea.
Sounds like a good idea, but it also sounds like a First Amendment rights issue. What is needed is the press to act like they should act, and doing journalism to keep the politicians honest.
Thank goodness for the internet in that regard. Sure there are probably more lies than ever, but there is also the truth.
Leaving for a bit to work out....so frustrated.
My teeth are gnashed!
RABID LIES and Perjury to the public. So many lies the truth cannot be recognized.
350,000,000 million counts of perjury and offense.
The fourth estate used to moderate such things before becoming the fifth column. That’s why the media have failed America more than career politicians, as we expect the latter to be self-serving filth.
Educate people to always be curious and very skeptical .
It's so easy now to do your research.
One man's lie is another man's truth.
Completely agree.
> It is criminal to attempt to attain, or attain, public office while lying to the public for the purpose of attaining that office. <
And who would determine exactly what a lie is? A jury in a liberal stronghold would. And so anything a Republican says would become a criminal act.
Meanwhile, a bold DA in a red state would start indicting Democrats. The whole country would devolve into a mess of show trials.
So on balance, this is a bad idea. It’s the job of the press to expose the lies by politicians. Our problem is not the lack of new laws. Our problem is a biased mainstream press. That’s the difficult nut we’ve got to crack.
Govt made it a crime for the peons to lie to govt and their agents.
However, its not a crime for govt and their agents to lie to the peons.
Not exactly what the Founders intended in terms or dynamic or overall civility.
Politicians generally lie.
Why are you voting Democrat?
I want them to steal money and give it to me in exchange for my vote.
A lot of voters leave every bit as much to be desired.
It’s legal for politicians to lie in Congress due to legislative immunity, which protects them from prosecution for statements made during official proceedings.
They just continue to do so wherever they are and the MSM plays along.
-Menken
It is each citizens duty to know the con being played or the truth being told, and to act on the difference.
Hard to prove that someone making a political promise is lying
Go focus on real problems
"Outrageous Lies and Deception by Political Candidates - Violation of Trust. Should be Illegal."
I basically agree with you regarding holding candidates legally responsible for their campaign trail lies.
But also consider that evidently lots a bunch of voters have not really studied the federal government's constitutionally very limited powers. In fact, here's a quick lesson about those few powers.
If a given federal social spending program is not reasonably related to the US Mail Service, then you can bet that the program is unconstitutional and probably win your bet most of the time.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States." (non-FR)
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Otherwise stated, most federal domestic policy is now based on state powers, and uniquely associated state revenues, that the very corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification (17A; popular voting for federal senators) federal government steals from the states (people's wallets) by abusing its 16th Amendment powers (16A; direct taxes), Congress not able to reasonably justify probably most taxes under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
What's probably going on is this. Post-16th Amendment ratification (16A; direct taxes), low-information voters are clueless when candidates for federal office promise them every constitutionally indefensible federal social spending program under the sun to try to get themselves elected, voters generally taking the bait and electing these crooks.
Once in office, lawmakers fulfill their campaign promises, including kickbacks, with unconstitutional federal taxing and spending programs.
So on one hand, post-17A candidate lawmakers, are making unconstitutional campaign promises, no express constitutional power for Congress to deal with most social issues outside voting rights protections.
On the other hand, post-16A ratification, low information voters are not practicing caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) when they elect crooks to office.
It takes two to tango.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
Since Congress and likewise renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.
In fact, it's up to us Trump supporters to take the first MAJOR step in draining the swamp by supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
Supporting Trump to finish draining the swamp includes supporting him to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes by leading the states to repeal 16&17A, effectively "seceding" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by doing so.
Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt (7.28.24)
“Verbiage, legalese and examples are rough at best and should be peer reviewed for accuracy and discussion...”
Some might think those words are an admission that you aren’t telling the truth and therefore must be telling lies.