[C-SPAN] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Articles of Impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito (13:37)
[C-SPAN] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Articles of Impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito (13:37)
Love when elected officials don't show up why is it the chairs are almost always all empty
To be fair they should just work most of their time from home on zoom and stay in their own states so they can be closer to their constituents. Going to DC is great and necessary but with modern technology they should be way closer to their constituents than they are. That's just my opinion though and what do I know.
It's actually even simpler. The whole building has wired feeds of the floor. So you can work from your office in the building or nearby, watch everything, and only come to the floor to vote.
I agree with the idea, but I highly doubt this is why they are not there in practice. I could be wrong as this is just purely speculative on my part, but I don't have a lot of faith in most US politicians.
Because they don't expect anything to happen.
Seriously the "do nothing congress" was miles better than our current one.
the "do nothing congress" was miles better
This sentiment is wrong. Making some effort to correct course should be a bare minimum. Accepting the broken system as irreversibly corrupt and doing nothing about it is objectively worse than using the institutions as they are intended. Even if these impeachments go nowhere, let it excite voters to turn out.
If you show up and vote for the party that actually wants to accomplish something, here is an example of what can be done. If you want to see checks and balances in action, vote for the party that is willing to make it happen.
With all the talk of the corruption of the most powerful court in the country, here is what the process looks like to fix it.
Conversely, if you just want to lie down and allow the court to continue to tear down the other "co-equal" branches of government, and regress our rights in an overtly corrupt way, then go ahead and sit back down. Do what you seem to prefer our elected leaders do: Shut up and fuck off. Find another place to commiserate with other self defeated losers.
I think you're misunderstanding the comment you replied to.
The "do nothing congress" was a specific Congress back in the 40s — not a Congress that literally does nothing.
The do nothing Congress passed 906 bills. I believe the current congress has passed something like 68 three-quarters of the way through. That's the comparison the commenter was making.
Laying out the charges clearly and concisely. alito and thomas have been corrupted, and should be removed. They purposefully withheld disclosures of lavish gifts from billionaires with matters before the court. They accepted gifts from people, failed to recuse themselves from cases those people were involved with, and ruled in their favor, benefiting both them and their benefactors financially. This establishes a clear quid-pro-quo. They are corrupt, remove them.
1337 timestamp.
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