Showing posts with label Legislative Tyranny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Legislative Tyranny. Show all posts
Friday, January 24, 2025

Repealing the 22nd Amendment is a great idea, but not Republican Andy Ogles' (TN-5) idea of revising it to allow Trump a third term but not Clinton, Bush 43, nor Obama

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 Constitutional amendment to allow Trump third term introduced in the House Ogles' idea that Trump was denied the power inherent in two ...
Sunday, July 2, 2023

AOC epitomizes the tyrannical legislative branch, halting the growth of representation, term-limiting the president but not themselves, and now seeking to subdue the judiciary

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  AOC: Supreme Court Needs Oversight From Congress To Preserve Legitimacy, "Impeachment On The Table"
Friday, July 1, 2022

A "political" Supreme Court which is "balanced" is wishy washy precisely because it is a function of an Executive branch hamstrung by the 22nd Amendment

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  This never occurs to Hugo for some reason. A Court system which depends on the transient figure of the president for its existence can ha...
Friday, June 3, 2022

More representation for the people does not equal "bigger government and more politicians"

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The last thing most Americans want is a bigger government and more politicians, yet the solution to the zero-sum redistricting game is to ...
Thursday, December 19, 2019

It's more complicated than Mark Levin says: Sean Davis points out Senate rules require articles of impeachment to be delivered by House managers to the Senate, and changing those rules is too heavy a lift

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Nancy Pelosi is a wily devil. She already knows how to use the rules against the Senate. Seems like quite a vulnerability in the bala...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

How quickly the liberators of Negroes made themselves slaves of the legislature

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Monday, November 18, 2019

Jonah Goldberg bows to the tyranny of the Legislative

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When there is actual evidence of crimes, Grand Juries are summoned. When there isn't, the politicians bluff, bluster and fulminate, b...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Then most Federalist Society folks are kooky: Senators and Representatives and Judges keep chairs warm for decades while POTUS becomes a lame duck immediately upon re-election

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We live under the spendthrift tyranny of the legislative feared by Madison, with its access to the pockets of the people, augmented by a ...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Justin Amash has never abandoned his principles, and neither has the Devil

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If Justin Amash cared one wit about the Constitution, he'd have spent the last ten years in Congress trying to restore the natural grow...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

"Improper" drawing of congressional districts is not the problem, improper restriction of the number of districts is

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To Fix Our Democracy, First End Gerrymandering : Gerrymandering, the pervasive practice of drawing congressional districts for politica...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Matthew Continetti is delusional, imagines Republicans after 2010 "overreached", thinks Democrats might after 2018

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Here , when in reality the so-called Tea Party Congress utterly capitulated. It continued to ratify the new level of Obama's spend...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Asinine is right: Marketwatch story blames James Madison for bloated tax code

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There wasn't an income tax until 1913, for crying out loud, and never was intended to be. James Madison, of all people, believed i...
Monday, October 2, 2017

A rare contribution to National Review suggests that the Congress is an idea whose time has passed

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From the story by Jay Cost  here : To put it bluntly, Congress is not well suited for national economic planning, which is basically w...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Tyranny Of The Legislative: The Worst Congress(es) Ever Because Of ObamaCare

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Discussed here : David Mayhew, a professor of political science at Yale University, pointed to the debates over ObamaCare as one cause of [C...