I have an idea for a 14th Amendment style omnibus amendment to deal with the Trump Problem
1) constitutional limits on the pardon power
2) establishing president’s criminal liability/ending immunity
3) amending the contingent election process
4) establishing sections 2 & 3 of 14th as self executing
1) constitutional limits on the pardon power
2) establishing president’s criminal liability/ending immunity
3) amending the contingent election process
4) establishing sections 2 & 3 of 14th as self executing
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Alright, Bluesky - seems pretty obvious that the US Constitution is no longer fit for purpose.
You're in charge of amending it. What do you propose?
You're in charge of amending it. What do you propose?
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Not that the pardon power is really doing much for them anyway, but still
- some real way to hold the supreme court (and POTUS) accountable for blatant corruption - impeachment process clearly doesn't work
- something to decrease the over representation small states enjoy (esp. in the senate)
- overturn Citizens United
- congress can regulate guns
Once we’re back in charge is the time for
THE CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION.
Better to require *all* candidates to pass standardized tests of their ability to function under pressure
I'm talking about tests measuring ability to do the job only.
70.
70, with term limits built in. we need younger minds.
How about Clooney getting out of movies- way past his own "prime";)
Organize a national strike 2026! Two things only. Tax billionaires, repeal citizens united.
1. Bodily autonomy
2. If a man says, "your body my choice" the 1st amendment is suspended and you can kick him in the testicles.
Only they wouldn't be voters anymore.
They'd be subjects.
Only then will the GOP join.
5) FFS qualified immunity is dumb and NOT A THING
Consider it from the other side... Tump puts a passle of his political opponents in prison using kangaroo courts, and his successor has limits on pardoning power.
2 and 3 are good!
Seems like this will become a vital point of contention
But I don't see it happening in an information environment where a lot of voters thought Biden was still running last week.
So, zero chance of these sorts of things ever happening.
1) Repeals the 23rd amendment removing DC's electoral votes (contingent of retrocession to MD)
2) Removes the cap on House membership allowing it to grow as needed when district population reaches ~750K.
The first is a pipe dream, but I'd really like to see the second.
Will need to flip 13 Senate seats from R to D, while holding the current seats held by Democrats and hold the current seats in the House while flipping around 80 of those seats over to the Democrats. Then there's the need to flip at a minimum 10 state legislatures
What say you all?
It's a royalist, monarchical bullshit remnant. No executive should get to undo the work of the other branches of government on a whim.
Get rid of it EVERYWHERE.
Maybe it hasn't set in yet for some folks that we just sold our country and people voted to confirm it....
Not black people though, the only group who knew the stakes and know suffering.
5) Make the Electoral College proportional or get rid of it altogether;
6) Make candidacy for president contingent on having served in another elected office.
(I think of the 52 Senators in the new Congress, 3 are now carpetbaggers in seats purchased by outside dark money. Voters then have zero leverage on them.)
Why should a president get a veto over the rule of law? Never made any sense to me.
unambiguous language in the constitution that tells them what the law is so they don't fuck around
Rewrite the second Amendment
2. Political donations aren't
3. Term limits, electoral college, abolish senate, etc
4. States can't decline good-faith fed assistance
5. F it, France style hardcore state secularism
6. Environmental protections
7. Ban R1 zoning
➡️ "Policy instability is a price paid for Congress’s abdications. Another Trump presidency might provoke most Democrats and many Republicans to revise their excessively president-centric understandings of government."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/11/13/donald-trump-elon-musk-federal-spending/