Posted on 07/12/2022 6:15:41 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Seeing as an unarmed protest inside congress was hardly a threat to our “democracy” than I assume this case isn’t much of a big deal.
Don’t forget that they were invited in.
If you think it could not happen here, if you do not understand this, if you are not alarmed, you are part of the problem.
Just more Democrat projection. The overturning of Roe destroyed decades of one-party control of everything by legislating from the bench recruiting they couldn’t achieve at the ballot box.
"It is difficult … to see the desire to put sole control of election rules in the hands of a partisan legislative body as anything more than a power grab," argued Christine Adams in The Washington Post. Laurence H. Tribe and Dennis Aftergut were even blunter in the Los Angeles Times: "Adopting the independent state legislature theory would amount to right-wing justices making up law to create an outcome of one-party rule."
The liberals would be much more reasonable. It's time the conservatives played hardball. Ha, look who's quoted, Washington Post and LA times.
Damned auto correct...
Just more Democrat projection. The overturning of Roe destroyed decades of one-party control of everything by legislating from the bench everything they couldn’t achieve at the ballot box.
I am very alarmed at the prospect of one party liberal rule. The only thing right now preventing that is a conservative majority Supreme Court.
They don’t like gerrymandering when Republicans do it.
Eff ‘em.
However a win could be used against them when they try it next.
As recently as 1826 iirc there were state legislatures who picked electoral college delegates without reference to popular vote. This was an acceptable option under the Constitution and still is, unless the state has passed laws to specify otherwise. Similarly, senators were selected by state government until the 17th amendment was enacted. Both were expressions of federalism and reflect an important founding principle of the Nation.
Why you post this crap?
“The Supreme Court has announced its intention to take up Moore v. Harper this fall, a case that critics claim is “perhaps the gravest threat to American democracy since the Jan. 6 attack.”
That’s crazy. Does anyone in his right mind think the Jan 6 “attack” was anything?
And the analysis here is just stupid.
"What about the Electoral College?In January, Ryan Cooper wrote for The Week that the state of Wisconsin "effectively exists under one-party rule." Democrats can still win statewide elections — say, for governor or U.S. Senate — but state legislative districts are hopelessly gerrymandered in favor of Republicans. If the Supreme Court sides with Moore, GOP-controlled legislatures in states like Wisconsin would have full authority to rig not only their own states' legislative elections, but elections to the U.S. House of Representatives as well.
And it might not stop there. Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution empowers each state to "appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors" equal to that state's number of senators and representatives. The clause doesn't say anything about the popular vote. This means, in theory, that state legislators can appoint whoever they want to the Electoral College. If SCOTUS side with Moore next summer on the question of federal redistricting, they're likely to apply the same reasoning to presidential elections. This interpretation was floated by conservative justices — including Thomas — during the Bush v. Gore (2000) case that handed George W. Bush the presidency."
The idiot stops just short of giving the whole game away, i.e. this is why the poops (demopoops) are crying so hard over this:
Ever wonder how you get dem senators or governors for a state whose legislature is overwhelmingly GOP or how a GOP state votes for a bad to super-bad poop candidat for president? It really isn't complicated. The areas the poops control are vastly more suitable for vote manufacting and other forms of fraud than GOP/non-poop areas. The place where the scheme breaks down is in the state legislatures; IOW, poops can manufacture all the votes they want to in Philly, Atlanta, or Madison, and Republicans and other non-poops/anti-poops will still win their own areas. Now, obviously, they want to even take that away from us.
The demmopoop party is a crime syndicate that needs to be banned and outlawed. If worst comes to worst and we end up splitting the country up into poop and -non-poop nations, then the poop party needs to be outlawed in those areas we end up in. Otherwise, what would be he point...
Have I got this right? Following the words of the Constitution is now a threat to the Republic.
By 1912, almost all US Senators were elected by popular vote or by advisory or primary votes of the populace. Only a couple states had senators actually selected by state legislators.
Note, for example, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates were conducted in the general public, not in the Illinois legislature.
The democrats ALWAYS cheat in everything they do, especially elections. The R’s always bend over backwards and seek to be fair. Now who gets screwed in a situation like that?
We don’t already have a one party system?
In January, Ryan Cooper wrote for The Week that the state of Wisconsin "effectively exists under one-party rule." Democrats can still win statewide elections — say, for governor or U.S. Senate — but state legislative districts are hopelessly gerrymandered in favor of Republicans.In other words, the Democrat machine can manufacture enough votes in Madison and Milwaukee to swing statewide elections, and their own local elections of course. But they won't carry the rest of the state.
Continuing to push this false premise after voter rolls are cleaned up, selective ballot curing in dem favorable areas is stopped, ballot harvesting is outlawed, and partisan vote counting operations that seem to have annual anomalies and late night surges that only ever seem to favor one party only continues the lie and encourages a narrative that justifies rebellion and anarchy.
Let the "red" states clean up their operations and present their elections as a model of transparency, then demand "blue" states with highly suspicious track records suggestive of fraud like California and Illinois do the same.
I'm kind of amazed how many people have missed that central fact in all the outcry over abortion.
Good post.
I was going to mention those examples.
I like to challenge folks to show me in the constitution exactly where it says there is a right to vote ( popularly) in federal elections....
Presidents are elected by electors who are appointed by legislatures....
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