A collection of far-right #Missouri senators is putting the health of millions of Missourians at risk by engaging in a pointless #filibuster. The group is demanding that the governor sign a bill to prohibit #PlannedParenthood from receiving any #Medicaid reimbursements, and lawmakers must pass a bill that would make it harder for Missourians to change the #constitution. These people are despicable and the Missouri voters should vote them out.
...their peers or another branch of government. (Impeachment is clearly not working for the Presidential office, the chief reason being the undemocratic #filibuster.)
So, any any special Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights (#LEBOR, #LEOBR, or #LEOBoR) for the police is undemocratic and should be ruled unconstitutional, including contractual means to circumvent this fact.
It's a manifestation of #AnimalFarm.
Heather Cox Richardson
ON FILIBUSTER
and the tragic damage caused to courts
"For years now, Repub senators have turned the previously rarely-used filibuster into a common tool, have stopped Congress from making laws and have instead thrown decision-making to the courts.
"…legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that when Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was Senate majority leader, he “realized you don’t need to win elections to enact Republican policy.
"You don’t need to change hearts and minds. You don’t need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people.
"All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts"
It would also bolster certain #business tax credits — including deductions for R&D, interest expenses & investments in equipment — that were limited in an effort to cap the total costs of Trump’s 2017 tax cut law.
But in the #Senate … #Republicans can block the bill w/a #filibuster….
@flexghost The mechanism for removing public officials from office is commonly known as "impeachment" & "expulsion", both requiring a two-thirds majority.
Republican party member Mitch McConnell weaponized the filibuster and in collusion with Leonard Leo stacked the U.S. Supreme Court with an ultraconservative supermajority.
Ther's lots of ways to slice the #DemocraticParty coalition, but one important axis are the self-styled adults-in-the-room, who declare themselves realists, and the party's left wing, who are dismissed as idealists who don't understand politics: neither how to win elections nor how to wield power.
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The "realists" are the ones telling us that we can't have nice things. They say that if the Dems promise bold action - protecting abortion, controlling assault weapons, funding infrastructure, raising the minimum wage, providing health care - they will lose elections. When Dems do win elections, they insist that none of these things are possible: the #SupremeCourt will strike them down, or the GOP will #filibuster them, or the business lobby will subvert them.
Astounding. The #filibuster today blocked the ratification of the #EqualRightsAmendment, the substance of which reads, in full: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."
All but two #Republicans voted against it, saying it's "unnecessary" to add to the #USConstitution. 50%+ of the population might beg to differ (esp post Dobbs).