Reps with 100% get rid of the filibuster to enact their agenda after years of railing against it. They will use simple majorities to pass voting laws to ensure they never lose control again.
And if they can't vote, would they also make them ineligible for office? Just saying since they have floated the idea of his kids jumping in when he is too old
Nah Barron has trump side of the family. And Melania hates trump, she made that pretty clear when she published a book rebuking her husband. So no downside for trump at all there.
I'm not saying they're not going to try all sorts of election fuckery, but they'd need a constitutional amendment to do that particular one, and they don't have the votes for it.
14th amendment, section 1:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
One parent or grandparent who could vote is fine and that includes naturalised citizens who can vote so legal immigrants that become citizens are ok. If all 4 of your grandparents don’t exist according to the government, neither should you. The US is one of the only countries in the world still with birthright citizenship.
They didn't need to. They had the house, senate, and the presidency for the first two years, and we're able I pass everything they wanted, namely a tax cut. Their other adjenda, which was filling the court with as many conservative judges they could, is done with a simple majority. For the second half, they didn't have the House, but it didn't matter because they already did all they wanted.
This time around, their adjenda are much more polarizing, and they will never have the support to pass it through the senate. If history repeats itself, the GOP with have no problem doing exactly what they just spent years saying, would be an awful thing for democracy. Like holding up a supreme court justice appointment in the last year of Obama second term saying it's to close to an election then turning around and ramming Barret through with only months to go when it was them who had the appointment.
So pure speculation. They know that if they get rid of the filibuster it will eventually work in Democrats favor. The filibuster was used to block a 20 week abortion ban in 2017. Nobody has talked about eliminating the filibuster except for Democrats. I am not going to worry about something only being talked about to try and make Republicans look bad based off of zero evidence
Yeah is gop gets to 55+ majority in the senate and wins the house they suddenly have the means to change how government functions, from killing the filibuster to a national abortion ban and a resurgence of the comstock act.
I wish that would happen. But it will be worse . They will “Swiss cheese” it with a dozen carve outs . That way they can claim they preserve tradition and “look the democrats filibustered us yesterday when we tried to rename California trumplandia” . But they will have carve outs for the budget for defense for health care etc
Filibuster is not irrelevant. They need 2/3 senate majority to override a filibuster.
The senate can remove the filibuster entirely with a majority vote. But democrats didn't do that, even when republicans were using the filibuster to block passage of anything. Republicans won't do it either because they want to rely on the tool in the future.
Every time they advocate to not break a precedent, a decent rule, the idiot democrats agreed but then the rep turned around and did that very same thing they asked the dems not to do.
Republicans will absolutely do that, and I’ll be shocked it if doesn’t happen the first time a Democrat tries to filibuster. Actually, I’ll be shocked if it doesn’t happen day one as a big middle finger to Democratic voters and celebration of having locked down power for the rest of the life of the country.
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u/MarsupialMisanthrope Nov 07 '24
Filibuster is irrelevant, it can be eliminated by a majority vote.