mwguy

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[–] mwguy 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. The US has on several occasions extra judicially killed American citizens without due process.

[–] mwguy 7 points 1 year ago

The 1929 law prevents the total number of Congressmen from changing. Adjusting the number of Congressmen is called reapportionment. What you're talking about is just redistricting.

[–] mwguy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well now I feel silly. Brb changing my default path.

[–] mwguy 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If it's any consolation I hope I'm wrong too. But historically, when it comes to government overreach; I've been disappointingly correct.

[–] mwguy 31 points 1 year ago (8 children)

We need to reapportion the House. And make reapportion something that happens every 10 years with the census. That would fix most of these structural issues with voting.

[–] mwguy -5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Probably be cause that's a defacto power the executive branch has claimed and used since at least the Bush era.

[–] mwguy 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Can we just have flatpak apps added to the system path by default? Like have a directory /usr/local/flatpak/bin and have links to all the executable show up there. Then users can choose to add that to their path if they wish.

[–] mwguy 0 points 1 year ago

I mean it almost certainly would be in Texas Jurisdiction. Actual crimes of that nature are prosecuted at the state level every day.

[–] mwguy 0 points 1 year ago

Which is exactly why they needed to present a fully fleshed out case to the public and to Congress. They needed to give individual Congressmen who voted against Trump the cover politically. As it was there were R Congressmen who are now quitting because of Trump who didn't vote for his imoeachment who explicitly cited the weakness of the case.

[–] mwguy 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fox and OANN will run any ad that pays them.

[–] mwguy 0 points 1 year ago

That particular scenario isn't a well protected for scenario in the US Constitution. In theory Capitol Police should be able to protect individual senators and congressfolk. But we did see how that broke down on J6.

This however enforces the reality that Trump should have been impeached with earnest when he was the second time (and honestly Congress should have listened to James Comey when he handed them an impeachment for Obstruction of Justice on a silver platter instead of fumbling it).

[–] mwguy 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The impeachment process is the proper way to prosecute crimes committed by the holder of the Presidency while they're the President. Impeachment is a criminal proceeding.

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