Posted on 11/12/2022 10:04:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Going with the NBC forecast of a Republican 10-seat majority in the House, when the new Congress is seated on January 3, 2023, the cold hard facts on the ground will include the following:
1. The new Congress will be gridlocked. Neither the Ds nor the Rs will be able to enact legislation, the Ds because they lack a majority in the House, and the Rs because they lack the supermajority required to override a presidential veto.
2. Although the Democrats cannot enact any legislation without Republican support, their most important engine of law creation, the administrative agencies, can continue to crank out new administrative regulations.
3. The Republican House could impeach President Biden, but since Republicans lack even a mere majority in the Senate, they thus lack the supermajority in the Senate necessary to convict and remove him.
4. President Biden can continue to issue Executive Orders.
5. The Republican chairs of the legislative committees can conduct investigations and issue findings, but they cannot take any legislative action.
6. The administrative agencies – notably the DOJ, FBI, CDC, EPA, and DHS, – will be untouched.
7. The DOJ plan to block a Trump run for President in 2024 can proceed unabated. How’s that? Well, the US Constitution provides in Article II Section 4 that the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The DOJ plan is to convict DJT of something that arguably falls within the category of “bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors” and then petition the Federal District Court in DC to enjoin a Trump candidacy.
Is that plan feasible?
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Fairly true but we will also have some advantages. A friendly Supreme Court, we still control a majority of state legislatures, we won control of judicial majorities in Ohio and North Carolina, and by getting the House we could stop reconciliation passed spending sprees in the Senate.
The election did suck, but we have some good things going for us.
Yes Joe is as helpless as a hungry shark ...
Trump for Speaker of the House
By the same token, Democrats cannot legislate the banning of so-called “assault weapons” or enact a “national right to abortion,” either.
“A friendly Supreme Court, we still control a majority of state legislatures”
Can Joe Birdbrain issue an executive order to pack SOCTUS? If he does, good bye US Republic.
Once the election results are settled, I expect a flurry of executive orders from Biden’s handlers.
My two cents:
Democrat POTUS, Democrat Senate, Republican razor thin majority in the House is exactly the outcome the elites in the Uniparty/Permanent Bureaucracy/Deep State/Establishment Donors wanted.
I do not have high hopes that a slim Republican House majority will have the courage and resolve to reign in the constitutional abuses of the executive branch and the administrative agencies.
Congress has ceded its power to the executive for quite a while; because it’s “their” guy. The executive can arbitrarily shut down pipelines, cordon off areas for natural resource development, write all sorts of orders for all sorts of things, and congress allows and endorses it.
It’s a slow fade, until it isn’t. And we are right at that fast fade point right now.
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