“sound the alarm”, horseshit. Just file the articles of impeachment and make the senators vote openly that they believe the executive branch ignoring a court order is okay. Senators should have to openly say it’s okay to not remove someone for not following the rules /“laws” of the republic. Then as Trump keeps fucking everything up the Senators will have to realize either A. They are willing to surrender their job/career/ country to back a tryant,or B. They need to jump ship.
If its fine to not listen to the courts, then there is no reason for congress to exist. Their job is to write legislation that the courts ensure breakers of that legislation are punished.
They should have done so on many other occasions, but their failures are only adding up.
The articles of impeachment are the house, the removal is the Senate. Requires 2/3. It’s why Trump was not removed during his 1st term. Impeached twice, and the Senate never voted to remove, the second time saying it was so close to the end it doesn’t matter if we vote. (It did matter, he most likely wouldn’t be president now if they had)
File the articles of impeachment over every single illegal action he is undertaking. Make it so congress is constantly dealing with impeachment hearing every second of every day till he is dead and buried.
While doing that make sure that you call for a constitutional convention, not an amendment or a series if amendments. A full on new constitution is needed to clear the shit out.
While the House of Representatives remains out have all the democratic representatives meet and broadcast it publicly. Do that every single day, talk policy and reforms and ask republican representatives to join the meeting. Make it painfully obvious that the democrats want to have a functioning government and not be held out like this endlessly.
You do not want a constitutional convention in this political climate. Amending the constitution requires 3/4 of state legislatures to ratify the amendment. Considering a solid majority of states have Republican controlled legislatures, the only things we’re likely to get from a convention are amendments banning DEI initiatives and trans people in sports, or something even worse.
I say they amend the constitution to make it 1/4 vote congress impeach, 1/3 vote removes. VP is not picked by President, it is the second most votes like when the country started. Then you put oversight committees on every executive organization and they answer directly to congress. Get rid of “executive powers” that come from declaring emergencies and etc. So impeaching president puts the VP (most likely their running opponent). Then the 3rd votes goes to VP and an emergency vote is taken place, to put a new Senate backup.
Or I’ve said before: dissolve the executive branch, and place all of the organizations under the legislature, and make a 3rd party review committee that evaluates if legislation, and judicial is being created to overpower the judicial branch or corrupt. And all organizations under the executive answer directly to congress.
Or, dissolve the Senate and the Executive… Place everything under Congress, expand the supreme Court to 50 judges one from each state. (Still would need some oversight)
But the idea is to make it so population of individuals is easily defeated, and we don’t have giant stupid news buyouts every 4 years to make 1 position something it was never meant to me. If you don’t want a king, kill the position
That would work if it weren’t for the gullibility of republican voters. GOP is clearly the ones at fault for the current shut down, yet they’ve convinced half of their supporters to blame democrats based on literally nothing.
So if the senate refuses to ratify any impeachment than all the GOP has to do is yell “TDS” and all their criminally stupid supporters would believe it no questions asked.
“sound the alarm”, horseshit. Just file the articles of impeachment and make the senators vote openly that they believe the executive branch ignoring a court order is okay. Senators should have to openly say it’s okay to not remove someone for not following the rules /“laws” of the republic. Then as Trump keeps fucking everything up the Senators will have to realize either A. They are willing to surrender their job/career/ country to back a tryant,or B. They need to jump ship.
If its fine to not listen to the courts, then there is no reason for congress to exist. Their job is to write legislation that the courts ensure breakers of that legislation are punished.
They should have done so on many other occasions, but their failures are only adding up.
IIRC, Articles of Impeachment against the President are filed in the House, not the Senate.
The articles of impeachment are the house, the removal is the Senate. Requires 2/3. It’s why Trump was not removed during his 1st term. Impeached twice, and the Senate never voted to remove, the second time saying it was so close to the end it doesn’t matter if we vote. (It did matter, he most likely wouldn’t be president now if they had)
File the articles of impeachment over every single illegal action he is undertaking. Make it so congress is constantly dealing with impeachment hearing every second of every day till he is dead and buried.
While doing that make sure that you call for a constitutional convention, not an amendment or a series if amendments. A full on new constitution is needed to clear the shit out.
While the House of Representatives remains out have all the democratic representatives meet and broadcast it publicly. Do that every single day, talk policy and reforms and ask republican representatives to join the meeting. Make it painfully obvious that the democrats want to have a functioning government and not be held out like this endlessly.
Anyways tangent over.
You do not want a constitutional convention in this political climate. Amending the constitution requires 3/4 of state legislatures to ratify the amendment. Considering a solid majority of states have Republican controlled legislatures, the only things we’re likely to get from a convention are amendments banning DEI initiatives and trans people in sports, or something even worse.
I say they amend the constitution to make it 1/4 vote congress impeach, 1/3 vote removes. VP is not picked by President, it is the second most votes like when the country started. Then you put oversight committees on every executive organization and they answer directly to congress. Get rid of “executive powers” that come from declaring emergencies and etc. So impeaching president puts the VP (most likely their running opponent). Then the 3rd votes goes to VP and an emergency vote is taken place, to put a new Senate backup.
Or I’ve said before: dissolve the executive branch, and place all of the organizations under the legislature, and make a 3rd party review committee that evaluates if legislation, and judicial is being created to overpower the judicial branch or corrupt. And all organizations under the executive answer directly to congress.
Or, dissolve the Senate and the Executive… Place everything under Congress, expand the supreme Court to 50 judges one from each state. (Still would need some oversight)
But the idea is to make it so population of individuals is easily defeated, and we don’t have giant stupid news buyouts every 4 years to make 1 position something it was never meant to me. If you don’t want a king, kill the position
That would work if it weren’t for the gullibility of republican voters. GOP is clearly the ones at fault for the current shut down, yet they’ve convinced half of their supporters to blame democrats based on literally nothing.
So if the senate refuses to ratify any impeachment than all the GOP has to do is yell “TDS” and all their criminally stupid supporters would believe it no questions asked.
Not really different from our current reality tho
The events of January 6th suggest Trump would be willing to mass execute congress if he didn’t need them anymore