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Posted on 06/30/2025 6:51:41 PM PDT by TheConservator
I want to compile a list of all the ways democrats and the left have violated constitutional norms--including and especially unwritten norms--since Bill Clinton became president.
Would also be interested in any ways you all think republicans and the right may have done the same.
Example--Biden's DOJ put two of Trump's top advisors--Navarro and Bannon--in jail, violating an unwritten rule that you didn't jail people over political differences.
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Well, they also violated an unwritten rule and several laws when they prosecuted a former President on contrived charges.
There are no “norms” for Democrats, only for (idiot) Republicans.
Complete rejection of the notion of a “loyal opposition.”
Politics ends at the water’s edge
The military is non- partisan
The government is operated under a budget (both parties on this one)
A better and more easily answered question is what norms have they not violated.
Correct.
They started filibustering circuit court nominees in 2001 for the first time in US history.
They then tried filibustering Alito when he was nominated.
The senate GOP got so fed up with the constant filibustering of Bush's nominees, they threatened to change the filibuster. Democrats claimed that it took 67 votes to change the filibuster rule.
In the summer of 2007, then Majority Whip Schumer said the democrat senate would not allow Bush to appoint any more justices to the Supreme Court.
From Scott Brown's win in 2009, the GOP begin filibustering Obama's nominees. The democrats, having admitted to lying about needing 67 votes to change the filibuster, eliminate it with a simple majority vote.
2014, the GOP retakes the senate and slows the confirmation of Obama's nominees.
In February 2016, Scalia dies. The GOP senate refuses to give Obama's nominee a hearing, just as Schumer said the democrat senate would do to Bush in 2007.
Democrats lie again, claim this is unprecedented, despite it happening nearly a dozen times in US history.
In 2017, for the 2nd time in US history, someone nominated to move to the Supreme Court is filibustered. The GOP changes the rule, and Gorsuch takes a place on the SCOTUS.
In 2018, Justice Kennedy retires, and Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh to take his place. The democrats run a smear campaign against him, hoping they can retake the senate in the 2018 election and leave the seat open. It doesn't work, and Kavanaugh takes his seat.
In September 2020, Justice Ginsburg dies, and Trump nominates Barrett to take her place. Democrats are infuriated, despite the fact that had they won the senate in 2016, there would have been a 17-day window with Majority leader Schumer and President Obama, when they would have rammed a nominee through.
Democrats then swear they'll pack the court when they get a small house majority, a 50-50+1 senate, and the presidency.
Didn’t they, in fact, change a law in New York state on a temporary basis, for the sole purpose of prosecuting him?
They'll expand the Supreme Court to 15.
Right now, there's a 6-3 majority on the SCOTUS in maintaining the Constitution.
They'll end up with a 9-6 majority.
That will be the end of the Constitution as we know it.
After massive amounts of violence by his thug supporters he was elected and promptly wrecked the economy so badly that it took almost three decades and not one but two gold rushes to fix. He allowed his thug supporters to loot the government, appointed the worst supreme court justices ever and used the Constitution for toilet paper repeatedly.
That was Andy "Ol Crook" Jackson.
As a party is planted, so it grows.
Every Which Way They Can
Right turn, Clyde!
If the economy was so bad and Jackson so crooked how come it is the only time in American history the Federal debt was zero?
Anytime someone claims an elected President (always a Republican, BTW) is violating some made-up "norm", it's time to reach for your wallet or your rifle.
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