Posted on 04/02/2019 9:33:32 AM PDT by C19fan
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) is set on Tuesday to unveil a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and allow for the election of presidents by popular vote, The Daily Beast has learned.
The amendment is supported by other Democrats in the chamber, an aide said, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Making a list, checking it twice...
“You have a Republic, if you can keep it.” - Ben Franklin, 1787
That’s good. Now that they solved that problem /sarc, they can move on to something else on the snowflake agenda.
I’ve cleaned stuff out of my cats’ litter box that was far smarter than the vast void between Gillibrand’s ears.
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
and then 38 states... the compact cannot reach that in states .. they cannot reach 200 EVs
LOL talk about desperation. I hope before Trump’s second term is up, they’re all locked away for the rest of their miserable lives.
What a bunch of sore losers.
If you don’t like running for the office as it is set forth in the U S Constitution, don’t run.
I have a question: was there actual race-based exclusion in that old system, or was it simply excluding renters and slaves of whatever melanin level, while including real property owners of whatever melanin level?
"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.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
”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.
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT's vision for MAGA, but will also promise to work with Trump to surrender state powers that the feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
I really don’t think they’re going to get the 45 smaller states to give up their voice in a major election.
DOA. The majority of states would become insignificant and ruled by the minority of states if this were to happen. The majority will never vote for it if they have any brains. Wait, it could happen.
Traitors to the Republic. Hang them.
...and then 38 states. Good luck with that
No, you stupid bitch
It’s built on the Electoral College. So you bastards don’t have a chance to screw up the country, esp with your insane immigration policies
If Cankles had won, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Schatz also tweeted this:
“It is not radical to want to directly elect a president and not have the process intermediated through a “college” that was established as a compromise to accommodate slave owning states, nor is it radical to give millions of Puerto Rican Americans representation in Congress.”
The Electoral College was NOT a compromise to accommodate slave owning States. That is a lie.
Puerto Rico is not a State, so those votes ought not to count the the general presidential election no matter what.
Wow ... how ‘turned on its head’ is this?
These ‘senators’ should be creatures of each respective state, representing the ‘state’ at the national legislature level ..
Out Founders have to be turning over in their graves.
We have total idiots at even the national level now.
I think you are right. This is propaganda, to try to delegitimize the president.
I thought the House of Representatives was responsible for initiating a constitutional amendment.
Like all spending bills etc.
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