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Sanction Ben-Gvir
They’re just saying that the court could rule that the amendment by itself is inactionable until the legislature enacts laws to create a process to disqualify candidates. Similar to how Article III declared a judiciary branch, but it wasn’t actually established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act, describing what kind of courts there would actually be, what their jurisdictions would be, how many justices would comprise the court, etc. etc.
But in this case, the amendment is clearly prohibiting an action. With a reasonable court, I can’t imagine how they’d just allow somebody to continue violating the Constitution until Congress passed additional legislation to stop it. It’s as ludicrous as saying that the executive branch can unreasonably search and seize anything they’d like until Congress explicitly spells out each and every action that’s unreasonable and provides the exact remedy process to follow when the 4th amendment is violated.
I mean, it’s a pretty moot point because the court has already shown that they’re perfectly willing to create whatever calvinball rules they want. But of course good old liberal media has to get in there and grant an air of credibility to whatever flimsy justification they come up with that’s even the slightest bit plausible sounding.
If the court wants to come out and say that they judge the President isn’t an officer of the United States or that he wasn’t personally engaged in an insurrection, then that’s one thing. But kicking it over to Congress to legislate exactly what’s prohibited by the Constitution and/or what the remedies are is just opening up a huge can of worms.
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“Settlers taking land” vs “Invasion”
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“IDF raid” vs “Terrorist attack”
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“Administrative house demolition” vs “Terrorist attack”
Who gets the death penalty when it wrongly murders someone?
Call it what it is: terrorist attacks.
Did McCarthy author and introduce legislation to prohibit organizations from any topic involving sexual orientation, gender identity, gender dysphoria or related subjects?
Did McCarthy co-sponsor legislation by MTG to criminalize gender-affirming care for people under 18?
Has McCarthy been hosting a Christofascist podcast?
Was McCarthy a top sponsor on legislation that would require schools to out LGBTQ students to their parents and notify all parents if a trans girl is allowed to use the girls’ restroom or joins a girls sports team?
Did McCarthy work as senior legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom for over a decade?
Did McCarthy have unanimous support from Trump, Gaetz, MTG, Jordan, and the rest of the Freedom Caucus?
Did McCarthy call homosexuality an inherently unnatural and dangerous lifestyle that would lead to legalized pedophilia and possibly even destroy the entire democratic system?
Was McCarthy described by the Human Rights Campaign as “Jim Jordan with a jacket and a smile”?
Was McCarthy mentored by Jim Jordan?
Johnson is basically Jordan pt 2, except just enough under the radar for libs to get away with voting for him / helping him get elected and then going “omg I didn’t know who I was voting for, whoopsie” once people discover who he is.
Welp, it’s over. Looking pretty likely that Libs handed control of the House over to an ex talk show host who spearheaded overturning the election.